All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 9
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News‘Virginia Woolf’s Night And Day’ to open SXSW London 2026
Peter Glanz’s dark satire ‘Savage House’ will also world premiere.
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NewsBBC Small Indie Fund 2026 reveals film, TV and digital recipients
A total of 29 production companies are being supported by £1.1m of funding.
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Features11 UK documentary film companies with exciting projects in the works
Screen spotlights 11 companies developing slates of interesting projects with international potential.
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NewsBafta film awards racial controversy to come under spotlight at New Black Film Collective 2026 XPO
The XPO runs from April 17-19.
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NewsAndrew Haigh, Asif Kapadia, John Crowley, Jeanie Finlay demand US streamers pay residuals to UK directors
“You know the value we directors bring - now we need you to show it” stated an open letter from 145 filmmakers.
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NewsUK’s Dogwoof appoints new head of sales ahead of Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: Bench takes over from Cleo Veger.
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NewsBFI unveils recipients of latest Audience Projects Fund
EXCLUSIVE: The first funding round of 2026-2029 has backed 23 recipients with a combined total of £9.3m.
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NewsWorldwide box office share for UK indie films falls in 2025
‘The Roses’ and ‘Warfare’ were the best-performing UK independent films at the global box office.
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NewsMubi lost 200,000 subscribers in 2025 due to Sequoia controversy, according to Wall Street Journal
However, CEO Efe Cakarel said the company had reached a record 1.7million subs by the end of Q1 2026.
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NewsGower Street decreases 2026 global box office forecast to $34.7bn
Although China had a disappointing first quarter, there were local successes in South Korea, Taiwan, Spain and Italy.
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NewsBafta review into racial slur incident finds “structural weaknesses” but no “malicious intent”
“We apologise unreservedly to the Black community,” said Bafta’s board of trustees.
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NewsMaxine Peake, Andrea Arnold among speakers at Sheffield DocFest 2026
The UK festival runs from June 10-15.
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FeaturesIs giving away free tickets to indie films the answer to building cinema audiences?
BFI programme Escapes for disengaged or lapsed audiences is trying this in the UK. Is it working?
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FeaturesWhy Nigeria's Kunle Afolayan believes YouTube is key to the future of African filmmaking
Afolayan is a leading proponent of the New Nigerian Cinema movement, with credits including Netflix hit ’Aníkúlápó’.
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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.