All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 39
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NewsBafta tightens up campaigning rules for 2024 film awards
Changes also include space for non-binary filmmakers in the best director category and updates to eligibility rules.
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NewsWriters’ Guild of Great Britain calls for independent AI regulator
The policy statement is titled ‘Writers and AI’, and includes recommendations such as AI developers only using writers’ work with express permission.
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Features“There’s no question – the Galway Film Fleadh is for Irish film”: director of programming talks 2023 edition
Maeve McGrath took over as director of programming at the start of 2023.
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NewsKevin Spacey 'drugged man and performed sex act on him', UK court hears
An aspiring actor is the fourth and final complainant to take to the stand.
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NewsLocarno Film Festival to honour Stellan Skarsgård
He will receive the Leopard Club award at next month’s festival.
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NewsUK’s Elstree Studios seeking over £150m for urgent repairs after asbestos found
The local council’s report has stated it could not “afford to continually invest”.
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News‘Club Zero’, ‘How To Have Sex’, ‘The Old Oak’ among UK Global Screen Fund recipients
13 titles have received funding in the latest round from the £7m per year UK Global Screen Fund.
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NewsGlobal box office records best quarter since 2019
The global box office has reached $8.6bn for Q2.
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NewsEdinburgh film festival one-off edition includes world premiere of ’Chuck Chuck Baby’
A total of 24 feature films, including five world premieres, make up this year’s programme.
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NewsKevin Spacey trial latest: second accuser hoped coming forward would “help” others
The complainant detailed meeting Spacey while drinking in a countryside pub and returning to a property the actor was staying in, where the alleged incident took place.
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NewsAdjani Salmon wins inaugural Menelik Shabazz award at Windrush Caribbean Film Festival
Salmon is a Screen Star of Tomorrow 2022 and the creator of BBC, A24 and Big Deal Films series ‘Dreaming Whilst Black’.
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NewsKevin Spacey trial: first alleged victim says Spacey’s behaviour was “well-known”
Source: WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch / Jolanda Flubacher (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Kevin Spacey The first alleged victim of Kevin Spacey described the US actor as a “slippery, snaky, difficult person” as Spacey’s trial gets underway at London’s Southwark Crown Court, following last week’s opening arguments. Spacey ...
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NewsLuke W Moody named head of UK’s BFI Doc Society Fund (exclusive)
Moody’s previous roles include director of film programming at Sheffield Doc Fest.
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NewsAnnemarie Jacir’s ‘All Before You’ part of Venice Gap-Financing projects
The Venice Gap-Financing Market (September 1-3), part of the Venice Production Bridge, will present 34 fiction and documentary projects.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny’ whips up widest release of 2023
Also new this weekend: Dreamworks animation ’Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’ and ’La Syndicaliste (The Sitting Duck)’, starring Isabelle Huppert.
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FeaturesStars of Tomorrow one-to-one: Andrea Cornwell & Danielle Goff
Danielle Goff talks with Saint Maud and Apostasy producer Andrea Cornwell about the current state of film and TV commissioning, and how market imperatives can impact the casting process
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NewsBFI Filmmaking Fund names new sales and distribution senior executive
”We are forming a new-look team to deliver the ambitious strategy,” said Filmmaking Fund director Mia Bays.
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NewsKevin Spacey’s sexual offences UK trial begins, set to last four weeks
The jury has been selected, with the trial set to last for around four weeks.
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FeaturesStars of Tomorrow 2023: Danielle Goff (producer)
Goff’s credits include Bafta-nominated ‘Night Of The Living Dread’
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FeaturesStars of Tomorrow 2023: Claire McCabe (producer)
McCabe’s credits include short films ‘An Encounter’ and ‘Safe As Houses’.