All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 31
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FeaturesMatthijs Wouter Knol on his mission to reshape the European Film Awards
This year’s awards take place in Berlin on December 9.
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NewsRowan Woods takes reins as creative director at Edinburgh TV festival
Woods is a respected film and TV curator, acquisitions executive and festival consultant, with stints at British Council, BFI, BBC Film and AMC Networks.
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NewsDigital content production sectors face skills shortage, says BFI report
Post-production alone generated £2.2bn in revenue in 2022, but retaining workforce at the mid and senior levels has proven challenging.
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News‘Napoleon’ stays top at UK-Ireland box office; Beyonce’s ‘Renaissance’ glides into top five
’The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ ,‘Wish’ and ’André Rieu’s White Christmas’ also secured top five spots.
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FeaturesAFM sellers reflect on solid market, post-strike rush to production, EFM 2024
“You will see the El Niño of all Berlins with a downpour of projects… Unless you have a great project it will get lost.”
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Features“The unemployment office is full of crew”: UK workers still struggling post-strikes
Production on high-budget US films in the UK is not expected to pick up until spring 2024.
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News‘All Of Us Strangers’ big winner with seven awards at Bifas 2023
‘How To Have Sex’ and ‘Femme’ also clinched key prizes.
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NewsUK Global Screen Fund awards ‘Hoard’, ‘The Radleys’, ‘How To Have Sex’ in latest funding round
A total of £208,217 was awarded to 10 projects through the international distribution strand.
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NewsNewly-merged UK-Ireland outfit Parkland secures €25m production fund from Silver Rock Studios (exclusive)
The distributor, sales and production outfits will operate under a single entity, Parkland.
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FeaturesThe UK snowboarder turned Oscar-winning Grain Media founder focuses on telling small stories about big issues
Director and producer Orlando von Einsiedel’s credits include ’Virunga’ and ’The White Helmets’.
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NewsDisability advocates Sara Johnson, Julie Fernandez join UK talent agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates (exclusive)
Bridge06 is an agency and consultancy that supports access coordinators and disabled, d/Deaf and neurodiverse talent.
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News“Next year is going to be tough,” says Vue CEO Tim Richards, but 2025 could be “bumper”
“We need more small and medium-sized films,” Richards told the British Screen Forum.
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NewsUK’s Film and TV Charity hardship fund sees post-SAG-AFTRA strike dip in applications
The amount of money being handed out by the fund is still up on this time last year.
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NewsWhat are the key themes to emerge from the submissions to the UK government film and TV committee?
Hot topics included more support for the public funders, an enhanced tax break for lower-budget productions and streamer interventions.
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NewsThree-quarters of UK film and TV crew consider workplace as unsafe, says survey
The survey was conducted by Bectu in partnership with The Mark Milsome Foundation, on the sixth anniversary of the tragic death of the camera operator.
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NewsBFI Filmmaking Fund taps Studiocanal exec for senior production executive post (exclusive)
Ama Ampadu, Louise Ortega, Aoife Hayes, Phoebe Sutherland and Charley Fox all have expanded their remits within the fund.
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NewsUK’s Skills Task Force calls for ScreenSkills transformation, apprenticeship reform and revised funding model
The task force, chaired by former Amazon exec Georgia Brown, has found that more than £100m was committed in 2022 to skills by Task Force member organisations alone.
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NewsUK film and TV organisations urge an end to complacency around responses to sexual harassment allegations
Senior figures from Bectu, the Film and TV Charity and CIISA spoke to academic Anna Bull who has conducted the study into harassment.
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: Cornerstone Films’ Carla Quarto di Palo on coming to film late and the future of sales
The newly promoted head of sales at London and Los Angeles-based Cornerstone Films talks about her love of Billy Wilder and why her favourite film festival is Toronto.
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NewsPaul Ridd named director of Edinburgh International Film Festival
Ridd, presently head of acquisitions at Picturehouse Entertainment, will take up the role in December.