All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 52
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NewsScreen Scotland outlines six-year strategy, with a focus on economic as well as creative growth
The strategy aims to increase the screen sector gross value added (GVA) impact to £1bn within the Scottish economy by 2030/31.
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NewsPicturehouse swoops for Berlin competition title ‘From Hilde, With Love’ (exclusive)
Andreas Dresen directs the story of real-life anti-Nazi resistance fighter Hilde Coppi.
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NewsIrish doc ‘Don’t Forget To Remember’ wins audience award at Dublin film festival (exclusive)
Further DIFF winners included ’Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World’, ’That They May Face The Rising Sun’ and ’Bye Bye Tiberias’.
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NewsHistoric UK cinema the Electric Birmingham closes
The cinema dates back to 1909, with the last screening listed for yesterday (February 29).
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NewsBFI, British Council expands travel grant fund for international festivals and events
The organisations will issue £623,000 across three years.
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: Protagonist Pictures’ Mounia Wissinger on mentors, cats and Willem Dafoe
The senior vice president of global marketing and publicity. at UK sales outfit Protagonist Pictures talks about the women who have supported her, favourite festivals, and why she loves Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy.
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NewsScreen Ireland opens up talent academy for VFX
Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet (CCIS) has been appointed the lead organisation to manage the establishment of the new academy.
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Features“We are a lean, mean, running machine”: How Glasgow Film Festival is packing a punch
As the festival marks its 20th edition, Allison Gardner and Chris Kumar discuss the fresh programming team and balancing budgets.
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NewsSignature Entertainment bolsters theatrical commitment with key hire (exclusive)
Luke Natoli joins from Elysian Film Group.
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NewsDublin world premiere ‘King Frankie’ set for UK-Ireland release (exclusive)
Wildcard Distribution has picked up Dermot Malone’s Dublin world premiere King Frankie for release in UK and Irish cinemas.
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News“Buyers came with enthusiasm”: international sellers enjoy buoyant EFM
“People had had a bit of a disappointing AFM in so many different ways, and everyone was ready.”
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NewsUK production outfit Scrapbook Pictures launches with focus on practical effects (exclusive)
Scrapbook’s first feature is fantasy adventure ’A Paige Odyssey’, combining physically produced special effects with virtual production.
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FeaturesDublin’s Grainne Humphreys on how festival audience habits are changing
Dublin International Film Festival runs from February 22 to March 2.
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NewsPressure mounts for UK indie tax relief as Film4, BBC Film bosses talk to film committee
Ollie Madden, Eva Yates, Rebecca O’Brien and James Hawes were taking part in Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee.
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NewsHow the Berlinale is trying to navigate and engage with the Israel-Hamas war
A Gaza dialogue event, the Tiny House project, has been running near the festival’s hub in Potsdamer Platz.
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NewsIreland’s Inis Mór lands the EUFCN Location Award 2023
The island on the west coast of Ireland was a key location for filming Marin McDonagh’s ’The Banshees of Inisherin’.
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NewsUK sales and distribution venture Blue Eyes Film opens up
Titles on the company’s sales slate include ’Miss The Kiss’, starring John Hannah, Martin Kemp, Sadie Frost and Patsy Kensit, plus heist feature ’The Last Tandem In Paris’, with Laëtitia Eïdo, Will Young and Michelle Collins attached.
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News‘Love Lies Bleeding’ star Kristen Stewart updates on Susan Sontag project, praises new era for queer cinema
Stewart was talking at a press conference ahead of a Berlinale Special Gala screening of ’Love Lies Bleeding’.
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NewsBerlin-Bafta date clash causes headache
The Baftas takes place tonight (February 18) in London, while the Berlinale runs until February 25.
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NewsKazakh war epic trilogy draws in buyers for Jinga Films (exclusive)
UK sales outfit Jinga Films has sold its trilogy of Kazakh historical war epics in multiple territories.