All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 6
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NewsSXSW London unveils first wave of titles, speakers including Sharon Horgan, Tom Quinn
World premieres include restaurant documentary ’Feast Or Famine’ and comedy ’All Night Wrong’.
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NewsSuzannah Mirghani’s prize-winning ‘Cotton Queen’ picked up for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: The Venice Critics’ Week premiere will be released theatrically in the autumn.
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FeaturesUK filmmaker, TV writer and novelist Helen Walsh is making waves with her second film ‘On The Sea’
The BFI Flare and Edinburgh premiere is Walsh’s follow-up to 2015’s ’The Violators’.
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NewsUK Global Screen Fund head outlines details of minimum guarantee strand and revamped strategy
“The goal is to support UK sales agents to be able to take on films and to be more risk-taking,” said Denitsa Yordanova today.
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NewsBrady Corbet, Audrey Diwan, Harry Lighton join Element Pictures’ Storyhouse screenwriting festival
EXCLUSIVE: Will Tracy, Abi Morgan and Eva Victor are also in the line-up.
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NewsBritish Screen Forum awarded £200,000 to address data gaps in UK film industry
EXCLUSIVE: The award is part of the BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund.
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NewsUK’s New Black Film Collective’s 2026 XPO unveils revised date and venue
EXCLUSIVE: The March event was postponed owing to a proposed London Underground strike.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Project Hail Mary’ takes off at 701 sites
Also new this weekend: Disney’s ’Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come’ and Kaleidoscope’s ’The Land Of Sometimes’.
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NewsIreland’s Break Out Pictures bolsters slate with Dublin film festival premieres
‘The Three Urns’ and ‘Once Upon A Time In A Cinema’ will be released theatrically in the spring.
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FeaturesHow is the Muslim workforce of the UK film and TV industry being supported during Ramadan?
“I didn’t say I was fasting because I didn’t want to make myself seem like a problem.”
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Features“Berlin was solid and the market felt good”: Buyers and sellers on EFM 2026
However, some expressed concern big market titles were being kept for Cannes.
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NewsFirst reactions to Warner Bros-Paramount deal: “Mega-mergers raise red flags”, “An antitrust disaster”
The UKCA, Film Export UK and Bectu are among the first industry bodies to weigh in on the deal.
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NewsBen Sharrock’s ‘Alone Together’ starring Callum Turner, Adria Arjona and Amir El-Masry picked up for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: The film is sold be HanWay and will shoot in Oman and Jordan in the autumn.
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FeaturesDublin film festival’s Grainne Humphreys on the young audiences packing out the 2026 event
The festival closes on March 1 with the world premiere of John Carney’s ‘Power Ballad’.
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NewsUK’s Cantilever Media secures £500,000 investment from Creative Growth Finance
Cantilever will use the investment to expand its UK-Ireland distribution arm, Kazoo Films.
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NewsUK culture secretary Lisa Nandy welcomes “full investigation” into BBC broadcast of Baftas
The BBC has agreed to a “fast-tracked” investigation.
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NewsNetflix series ‘Wednesday’ starts shooting in Ireland
Winona Ryder, Chris Sarandon and Noah Taylor have joined the cast.
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NewsBrendan Canty’s ‘Christy’, ‘Hamnet’ key winners at Irish Film and Television Academy awards
The awards took place on February 20.
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NewsTime’s Up UK, Black Beauty Roster launch certification plan to tackle on-set hair and make-up discrimination
Lashana Lynch, Naomie Harris and Barbara Broccoli are among the industry names supporting the initiative.
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NewsBFI-backed Gatecrashers lab for working-class genre writers unveils cohort
EXCLUSIVE: ’What It Feels Like For A Girl’ star Hannah Frances Therese Jones, ’High Wire’ director Calif Chong both taking part.