Leonardo DiCaprio-produced Monolith, The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands starring Alexander Skarsgard and Sundance 2026 world premiere Extra Geography are among the latest recipients of UK Global Screen Fund (UKGSF) backing.
Scroll down for the full list of co-production and distribution awards
Stevan Riley’s Monolith is a minority UK co-production feature documentary with the US, that delves into Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. The UK producer is Sean Richard of Object Studios, co-producing with Catchlight Studios and Phoenix Pictures in the US. Leonardo DiCaprio is also listed as a producer. It received £170,000 in support from the international co-production strand.
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands is a minority UK co-production with Sweden, Belgium and Iceland; it is produced out of the UK by Emily Morgan of Quiddity Films, co-producing with Sweden’s Hobab, Belgium’s Need Production and Iceland’s Still Vivid. The gothic horror is set in 19th-century North America and received £200,000 of co-production support.
The latest round of international co-production awards totalled £763,000. To date, this strand has awarded over £9.6m to 62 co-productions, supporting partnerships with 34 territories.
Plans for the expanded UKSGF funds are to be revealed early next year, as the annual budget increases from £7m to £18m per year for 2026-9.
This round also includes 36 international distribution awards totalling £776,772 to support the promotion of UK independent feature films with grants for festival launches and prints and advertising (P&A) support, including £15,000 to support Molly Manners’ debut Extra Geography at Sundance next month, produced by Sarah Brocklehurst.
Chaplin: Spirit Of The Tramp becomes the first documentary to receive P&A funding through the new single-territory award for animation and documentary, with £8,843 of support towards its theatrical release in Japan. To date, the international distribution strand has awarded 148 grants totaling £3.6m.
Two companies have received international business development awards: Norfolk-based documentary company Blue Pigeon Productions receives £50,000 towards the hire of a marketing and social media specialist and channel assistant to support a bespoke YouTube platform. Southwest of England-based high-end factual production company Slate Works has £54,600 towards the hire of a bilingual development producer and researcher to help the company improve its development pipeline for wider international markets.
UKGSF is financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport and administered by the BFI.
UKGSF international co-production awards
Butterfly Stroke
Dir: Denis Rabaglia
Prod: Zephyr Films (UK), Turnus Films (Switz)
Award: £150,000
Monolith
Dir: Stevan Riley
Prod: Object Studios (UK), Catchlight Studios (US), Phoenix Pictures (US)
Award: £170,000
The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands
Dir: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
Prod: Quiddity (UK), Hobab (Swe), Need Production (Belg), Still Vivid (Ice)
Award: £200,000
West The Road
Dir: Ita Fitzgerald
Prod: Stigma Films (UK), Cowtown Pictures (Ire)
Award: £150,000
Yuja
Dir: Lorna Tucker
Prod: Snowstorm (UK), Ballinran Productions (Can), Cargo Film & Releasing (US)
Award: £93,000
International distribution awards – P&A support
Bring Them Down
Dir: Chris Andrews
Award recipient: Wild Swim Films - £89,400
Hot Milk
Dir: Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Award recipient: Bonnie Productions - £91,324
Bird
Dir: Andrea Arnold
Award recipient: Cornerstone Films - £78,472
Tornado
Dir: John Maclean
Award recipient: Tea Shop Productions - £62,697
Urchin
Dir: Harris Dickinson
Award recipient: Devisio Pictures - £74,000
The Thing With Feathers
Dir: Dylan Southern
Award recipient: Lobo Films - £77,517
Chaplin: Spirit Of The Tramp
Dir: Carmen Chaplin
Award recipient: Kwanon Films - £8,843
International distribution awards – festival launch support
My Father’s Shadow
Dir: Akinola Davies Jr
Award recipient: Crybaby - £15,000
Pillion
Dir: Harry Lighton
Award recipient: Cornerstone - £15,000
Urchin
Dir: Harris Dickinson
Award recipient: Devisio Pictures - £15,000
Blue Has No Borders
Dir: Jessi Gutch
Award recipient: Borders Folkestone Film - £5,150
Dragonfly
Dir: Paul Andrew Williams
Award recipient: Alliance Media Partners - £5,400
Our Land
Dir: Orban Wallace
Award recipient: Grasp The Nettle Films - £5,400
Still Pushing Pineapples
Dir: Kim Hopkins
Award recipient: Labor of Love Films - £4,540
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Dir: Paul Sng
Award recipient: Kaleidoscope Film Distribution - £2,283
Ish
Dir: Imran Perretta
Award recipient: Primal Pictures - £15,000
Rose Of Nevada
Dir: Mark Jenkin
Award recipient: Protagonist Pictures - £9,000 (13/8) & £6,000 (27/8)
H Is For Hawk
Dir: Philippa Lowthorpe
Award recipient: Protagonist Pictures - £15,000
100 Nights Of Hero
Dir: Julia Jackman
Award recipient: Erebus Pictures - £14,816
Mare’s Nest
Dir: Ben Rivers
Award recipient: Urth Films - £5,000
Straight Circle
Dir: Oscar Hudson
Award recipient: Magna Studios - £13,000
Orphan
Dir: László Nemes
Award recipient: Good Chaos - £13,441
Palestine 36
Dir: Annemarie Jacir
Award recipient: Corniche Capital - £15,000
Glenrothan
Dir: Brian Cox
Award recipient: Protagonist Pictures - £15,000
Good Boy
Dir: Jan Komasa
Award recipient: Recorded Picture Company - £15,000
Retreat
Dir: Ted Evans
Award recipient: Come Into The Fold - £14,941
The Son And The Sea
Dir: Stroma Cairns
Award recipient: In The Company Of - £5,668
Winter Of The Crow
Dir: Kasia Adamik
Award recipient: Film and Music Entertainment - £15,000
& Sons
Dir: Pablo Trapero
Award recipient: Bankside - £7,478
California Schemin’
Dir: James McAvoy
Award recipient: Bankside - £7,472
I Swear
Dir: Kirk Jones
Award recipient: Bankside - £5,296
Saipan
Dir: Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn
Award recipient: Bankside - £5,925
Wasteman
Dir: Cal McMau
Award recipient: Bankside - £7,159
Super Nature
Dir: Ed Sayers
Award recipient: Grasp the Nettle Films - £6,550
Extra Geography
Dir: Molly Manners
Award recipient: Brock Media - £15,000
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