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UK distributor Verve Pictures gets BFI backing for first feature scheme (exclusive)
Company will released Old Boys and Pond Life as first two titles in new initiative.
San Sebastian to host European Film Forum funding conference
The event will take place on September 24 as part of the festival.
Creative Skillset announces new funding for UK film skills training
The charity is investing £600,000 to tackle skills shortages.
NFTS teams with Kickstarter on funding, mentoring scheme (exclusive)
NFTS Platform! will support shorts projects outside of the school curriculum.
UK entrepreneur's £1m shorts fund backs 22 projects, reveals future plans (exclusive)
Stefan Allesch-Taylor plans to back 20 more short films in 2018.
France, Bosnia and Herzegovina sign co-production treaty in Sarajevo
Countries aim to increase co-production ties with new agreement.
Ffilm Cymru Wales invests in development of three new features
Also providing additional support to three projects on their slate.
Sky to invest £500m in original scripted programming
Broadcaster outpaces public service broadcasters with a 25% increase in drama and comedy spend
UK Cinema Associaton launches fund for subtitling innovations
Up to £75,000 is available across two funding phases.
Inaugural Loop Fund awards £5,000 each to three UK filmmakers
Newly-established Loop Fund aims for ‘risk-taking approach’.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Wnendt titles to be showcased at Venice Gap-Financing Market
The 46 projects include 25 feature and documentary works.
New projects from Dardennes, Niels Arden Oplev, Gianfranco Rosi to receive Eurimages backing
The chosen projects include 23 fiction films, 6 documentaries and 1 animation.
Creative Scotland opens £600,000 film festivals fund
Awards of between £5,000 and £70,000 will given to non-major festivals in Scotland.
Documentary groups lobby to keep UK in Creative Europe post-Brexit
A petition is live on the European Documentary Network website.
Six UK companies awarded Creative Europe development grants
Projects include ‘I Am Spartakiade’ featuring footage of mass gymnastic events in communist Czechoslovakia.
Film & Television Charity names 2018 John Brabourne awardees
Total of 9 individuals are the first to be supported since the charity relaunched in April.
Screen Flanders invests €2m in 10 new productions
Titles include action thriller Spider In The Web and BBC drama series Baptiste.
Korea's Lotte Group launches Cultureworks to house cinema operations
The company will move its cinema exhibition, investment and distribution operations into the new affiliate
French cinema industry rattled by Canal Plus football rights debacle
The pay-TV network is a key financier of the country’s cinema.
Wallonia-Brussels Federation selects first 2018 projects, signs Uruguay co-pro agreement
The 47 projects for the first session of the year include works by Solange Cicurel and Stephan Streker.
