All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 8
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NewsWestEnd Films bolsters TV team, expands US footprint
The UK-based sales agent has hired a head of television, co-production and IP.
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FeaturesNew Film4 head Farhana Bhula talks ambitions, producer fee deferrals and winning over youth audiences
In her first sit-down interview as the new director of Film4, Farhana Bhula discusses her plans for the UK public funder.
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FeaturesRebel spirit Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe talks about 20 years of the British Urban Film Festival
Anyiam-Osigwe says he was inspired by figures such as Menelik Shabazz and Kanya King.
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NewsWhat are French distributors looking for from UK and Irish films?
French distributors gave their verdict during a discussion at the Dinard Festival Of British & Irish Film professionals’ rendezvous.
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NewsJohn Gore Studios takes majority stake in Hilary Bevan Jones’ UK outfit Hilltop Screen
Francis Hopkinson has been named creative director of the John Gore Studios group.
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News‘Mr Burton’, ‘The Lost Boys And Fairies’ key winners at Bafta Cymru 2025 awards
’It’s A Sin’ writer-creator Russell T Davies receiving the outstanding contribution award.
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FeaturesLFF head Kristy Matheson on 2025 programme, potential protests and festival’s “next decade”
Matheson is three years into her tenure as director of BFI London Film Festival.
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News‘Dragonfly’, ‘Mr Burton’ among winners at Dinard Festival Of British & Irish Film 2025
Daisy-May Hudson’s ‘Lollipop’ landed the talent of tomorrow prize.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival unveils 2025 competition juries
‘Carol’ producer Elizabeth Karlsen will head the main competition jury.
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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.