All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 23
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NewsScreen Scotland sets aside £1.2m for four talent development initiatives
The initiatives are aimed at short films and those on the cusp of a first feature.
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NewsEdinburgh Filmhouse poised for spring 2025 opening, Lizzie Francke joins board
Planning applications for alterations to the building have been approved.
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NewsEdinburgh International Film Festival sets 2025 dates
The festival is once again running in August.
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NewsGlasgow, Locarno, IDFA join European film market alliance
The F.A.M.E. Alliance also includes CPH: Dox, Les Arcs and Zurich.
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NewsFfilm Cymru Wales names Amanda Rees next chair (exclusive)
Outgoing chair Ruth McElroy departs in December.
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NewsMohsen Makhmalbaf urges UK government to open doors to Afghanistan’s creatives
“Bringing these people here is not just saving the life of individuals. It’s saving culture.”
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NewsPhilip Knatchbull to return to UK’s Curzon on interim basis; Edward Fletcher to depart (exclusive)
Curzon was acquired at auction by US’ Fortress Investment Group earlier this month.
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Features‘Kneecap’ filmmakers on navigating Northern Ireland’s politics and bringing bigger budget films to Belfast
Rich Peppiatt’s film won audience awards at Sundance and Galway and is being released next month in UK-Ireland.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival award winner ‘Four Mothers’ picked up for UK-Ireland
The feature is set for release in April next year.
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News‘Kneecap’, ‘Civil War’ lead Bifa 2024 craft winners
Further winners include ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ and ‘Firebrand’.
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News‘Wicked’ shines with biggest opening weekend of 2024 at UK-Ireland box office
The musical has also broken the box office record for best-peforming debut for a stage-to-screen adaptation in the territory.
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NewsFirst-look images for Wales-shot ‘Madfabulous’ starring Callum Scott Howells unveiled (exclusive)
Rupert Everett also stars.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Wicked’ aims to cast its spell in 698 sites
Also out this weekend: Sundance drag queen romance ‘Layla’ and a raft of documentaries, including ‘Bread & Roses’ and ‘Silent Men’.
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NewsShifting business models leads discussion at British Screen Forum
Speakers include David Puttnam, Kathleen Kennedy, Jane Featherstone, Jane Millichip and Caroline Dinenage.
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NewsSister’s Jane Featherstone on ‘Kaos’ cancellation and her mission to “make mainstream fashionable again”
Featherstone anticipates a return to less risky, long-form TV comissioning, with pure TV talent attached: ”Movie stars don’t want to do a TV schedule.”
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NewsTamer Hassan, Leo Gregory join cast Of ‘Rise Of The Footsoldier: Ibiza’, first pictures revealed (exclusive)
There are plans for three more films and a TV series in the cult crime franchise.
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News‘The Rubber Faced Men’ tops 2024 Brit List of unproduced screenplays
Also on list: coming-of-age Oxbridge comedy, psychological horror in 19th century India, Elizabethan romance.
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NewsRichard E. Grant, Felicity Jones and Amir El-Masry join '100 Nights Of Hero’
Principal photography has now wrapped on the UK shoot.
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NewsProtagonist Pictures refreshes team, lands key hires
Joseph Hewitt has been brought in from HanWay Films.
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NewsStone Age thriller ‘Out Of Darkness’ wins big at Bafta Scotland awards
Former Edinburgh director Lynda Myles and casting director Des Hamilton received outstanding contribution awards.