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Kaos starts feature screenwriting competition
Kaos Films, founders of the British Short Screenplay Competition, is now launching a Feature Screenplay Competition.The competition will be open to international screenwriters working in any genre of film that can be produced for $2m or less.The winning screenplay will be announced at the 2009 Screenwriters Festival in Cheltenham.Kaos will ...
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JEREMY LOVERING
Writer-directorHaving built a solid reputation in television on acclaimed series such as Spooks, Jeremy Lovering confirmed his cinematic ambitions with Miss Austen Regrets, which screened on the BBC in April. A poignant drama about the Regency author, it had a broad filmic sweep and gave a contemporary twist to a ...
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Knightsbridge Media wraps Hindi remake of Winding Refn's Pusher
UK production company Knightsbridge Media has finished its independent film Pusher, which it expects to launch in 40 UK cinemas later in 2008.Pusher is a UK-made, Hindi-language remake of Nicolas Winding Refn's Danish hit of the same name, now about an Asian drug dealer whose world collapses around him during ...
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JOSEPH PIERCE
Writer-director-animatorJust graduated from the National Film and Television School (NFTS), Joseph Pierce's imaginative animated shorts have made a splash on the festival circuit. Big On Love, about a sweet encounter between a man and a woman, shows how expressive graphic animation can be. His graduation film, Stand Up, about a ...
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JANIS PUGH
Writer-directorJanis Pugh has been making no-budget shorts, inspired by the stories of her home town of Flint in north Wales, for almost a decade. Her break came in 2005 with documentary short House about elderly women playing bingo and reminiscing about their lives. It won her a scholarship to the ...
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MICHAEL LESSLIE
WriterJust 23, Michael Lesslie has notched up a formidable array of credits since he started writing at 16. Flipping between stage and screen, he wrote the 2006 BAFTAnominated short Heavy Metal Drummer, adapted Swimming With Sharks for the London stage last year, and has written another short, Airlock Or How ...
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SEBASTIAN GODWIN and HUGO GODWIN
Writer-Director and ProducerPerhaps it is not surprising brothers Sebastian (standing left) and Hugo Godwin are interested in cinema that explores the theme of the family - but their reference point is more Michael Haneke than Steven Spielberg. The Girls shows how a game between two young sisters and their father ...
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VIRGINIA GILBERT
Writer-directorA coolly directed short about a morally compromised man whose holiday is ruined by an unruly boy, Hesitation marks Virginia Gilbert's first foray into directing. That it was nominated for a BAFTA this year (as well as winning awards at Galway and Chicago film festivals last year) shows what a ...
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ESTHER MAY CAMPBELL
Writer-directorIt is no wonder Esther May Campbell's compelling visual style has caught the eye of UK film executives. Her short films - Delilah, Poppy and most recently September, about a man's infatuation with a circus performer - make the most of their modest budgets and have a mesmerising sense of ...
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CHINA MOO-YOUNG
DirectorHaving cut her teeth directing video games and commercials, China Moo-Young is now ready to graduate to feature films. Her debut short, Liar, was a tightly constructed exercise on deception starring Glenn Doherty. Her follow-up Juvenile, made for the UKFC and shown this year at Sundance and Berlin, is an ...
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LAURA REES
ProducerWith a background at Intermedia Film & Video in Nottingham, where she produced short documentaries for Carlton TV as well as shorts for the UKFC's digital strand, Laura Rees has just graduated from the NFTS' producing course. She is now developing a slate of features which reflect her wide-ranging taste ...
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TOM MARSHALL
Writer-directorTom Marshall has not let money - or lack of it - get in the way of making films. Twenty one years old and just out of Teesside University, he has been making films since he was 17. Two, shot for less than $1,000 (£500), have got him noticed. Daddy's ...
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DAISY DONOVAN
WriterAfter a decade in television in which she proved herself to be one of the UK's brightest comedians - her witty interviews with well-known public figures have become TV classics, while her investigations into US subculture showed her playful, self-deprecating sense of humour - Daisy Donovan is now embarking on ...
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ANDREW HAIGH
Writer-directorAndrew Haigh cut his teeth in the editing suite, on such mainstream hits as Gladiator and Notting Hill, but his own shorts display a much more indie sensibility. His debut, Oil, employs fast cutting and voiceover to create a poetic and poignant portrait of a man reminiscing over his departed ...
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COLIN MORGAN
Hailed as the most exciting drama-school graduate since Ben Whishaw, Colin Morgan dazzled the critics with his electrifying stage debut in last year's Vernon God Little at the Young Vic. He followed it with All About My Mother at the Old Vic and A Prayer For My Daughter at the ...
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KAYA SCODELARIO
It is a sign of her blossoming talent that Kaya Scodelario has graduated from minor character in the first two series of Channel 4's teen series Skins to a lead. But if she is fazed by the transition, this 16- year-old does not show it. 'It's very exciting and a ...
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CHARLOTTE RILEY
One year after graduating from LAMDA and the buzz around Charlotte Riley is growing. She has just finished Stephan Elliott's adaptation of Noel Coward's Easy Virtue in which she plays the main character's down-to-earth childhood sweetheart. Riley may have felt intimidated before starting the job - hardly surprising given a ...
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CAREY MULLIGAN
Having graced several high-quality television productions such as Bleak House and My Boy Jack, Carey Mulligan is about to hit the big time with the lead in Lone Scherfig's An Education. Set in the 1960s, the film is a coming-of-age drama in which she plays a 17-year-old who abandons her ...
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EDWARD HOGG
Edward Hogg has been steadily building a name as someone to watch. His lead role in Woyzeck on stage at London's Gate Theatre won him an Ian Charleson Award nomination in 2006 but two films due for release next year are likely to propel him into the limelight. First off ...