All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 5
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NewsBFI Network@LFF unveils 2025 participants
EXCLUSIVE: Screen Stars of Tomorrow 2025 Anna Snowball and Matty Crawford are among the 15 selected.
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FeaturesStars of Tomorrow 2025: Shalini Adnani (writer/director)
Earlier this year Adnani wrapped a 28-day shoot in Maharashtra, India on her BFI and Film4-backed untitled feature debut.
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FeaturesStars of Tomorrow 2025: Tobi Kyeremateng (producer)
Self-taught producer set foot in Cannes for the first time earlier this year with Harry Lighton’s sub-dom tale ’Pillion’.
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FeaturesStars of Tomorrow 2025: Anna Snowball (director)
Snowball is now working on her first feature ‘Inside Is Chaos’.
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NewsBFI filmmaking and talent development funding to increase to £20.3m a year
Audience development funding also increases to £11.2m a year.
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FeaturesWord of mouth: Bankside’s Sophie Green uses Instagram, avoids reviews and has dusted off her DVD player
The head of acquisitions and development at UK sales outfit Bankside Films explains why she turns to Instagram and her old DVD collection to guide her viewing habits.
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NewsUK Lammas Park exec Anna Smith Tenser joins Maven Screen Media
Smith Tenser was managing director and executive producer at Steve McQueen’s production outfit.
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NewsEuropean investment firm SCIO Capital secures lease for UK’s Winnersh Film Studios
The studio has been shut since April 2024.
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NewsFrank Berry’s ‘The Lost Children Of Tuam’, starring Monica Dolan, starts filming for Element Pictures, mk2
EXCLUSIVE: The film about the horrors of an Irish mother and baby home is now shooting in Ireland.
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NewsUK mystery thriller ‘Black Church Bay’ starring Tom Cullen and Joe Locke wraps Wales shoot
EXCLUSIVE: Rhys Marc Jones directs, with Ossian International and The Bureau producing.
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NewsLisa Nandy takes “dim view” of streamers and Banijay for not funding UK industry standards body CIISA
More support for the exhibition sector and “frustrations” over AI legislation were also talking points.
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NewsFilm and TV to be taught in Scotland’s schools in landmark UK move
Film and screen studies will be available for all pupils from age three to 18.
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NewsUK culture minister Chris Bryant leaves department in government reshuffle
Former Scotland secretary Ian Murray takes over.
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NewsScreen Ireland, Stowe Story Labs unveil selection for 2025 Connemara writers’ programme
The 10 writers taking part include popular Irish poet Rita Ann Higgins and this year’s winner of the Galway Film Fair pitching award, Zoe Gibney.
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NewsOlivia Colman, Yorgos Lanthimos among 1,300 signatories of pledge against working with Israeli film institutions “complicit in genocide”
These institutions include film festivals, broadcasters, and production, sales and distribution companies.
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NewsCaroline Norbury to step down as Creative UK chief executive
Norbury will leave the organisation by March 2026.
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News‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ summons strong £6.8m opening at UK-Ireland box office
Holdovers including ‘The Roses’ and ‘Weapons’ dominate rest of the top five.
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NewsFremantle appoints first ever executive vice president of AI
The role reports into Matthew Wilson, chief legal officer.
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FeaturesWhy authenticity was a top priority for the UK team behind Tourette syndrome biopic ‘I Swear’
The director and producer of I Swear reveal how they sidestepped development hell to bring their biopic of Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson to fruition in less than two years.
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NewsMMM Film Sales acquires Stroma Cairns’ Toronto premiere ‘The Son And The Sea’
EXCLUSIVE: Many of the cast in the BBC Film-backed feature are deaf and first-time actors.