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Five new UK talents receive £10k each from Creative England’s Shortflix initiative
They will each will make a short which will be broadcast on Sky Arts in 2020.
French cinema guilds protest cut to CNC film subsidies in 2020
CNC support for cinema cut by roughly $16m to balance the books.
Panama to raise cash back incentive from 15% to 25% from 2020
The Central American country is hoping to compete with its neighbours for major productions.
Screen Star of Tomorrow among second round of 2019 John Brabourne awardees (exclusive)
The 12 recipients include UK writers, directors and producers.
Jim Sheridan to direct Native American drama ‘Murphy And The Indian’ (exclusive)
The project recieved development finance from Screen Ireland in its latest funding round.
‘Unrest’ producer awarded £15k Simon Relph bursary (exclusive)
Lindsay Dryden is producer of Oscar-shortlisted documentary ‘Unrest’.
£200k UK shorts project The Uncertain Kingdom unveils titles, first look (exclusive)
Directors include BIFA winners Jason Wingard and Carol Salter.
BFI revamps Vision Awards, launches new training programme
Awards will see up to £2.5m in lottery funding allocated to 20 UK-based producers or producer teams.
Edwin, Lav Diaz among Purin Pictures’ latest grant recipients
Bangkok-based fund is handing out four production and one post-production grants in autumn 2019 funding round.
Erik Poppe takes over directing ‘The Emigrants’ from Daniel Espinosa (exclusive)
The Norwegian Film Institute has joined the project with funding.
German funds, producers to visit China in anticipation of co-pro treaty
Delegates include the German Federal Film Fund, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and FFF Bayern.
German producers call for HessenFilm fund CEO to resign over meeting with far-right politician (exclusive)
“As long as he’s running the fund I will not ever apply to them,” said one producer.
ScreenSkills gives high-end drama a £1m boost
Industry training body’s spend for 2019/20 tops £4m.
Open City crowns inaugural winner of £10,000 development prize
Miko Revereza’s ’Nowhere Near’ wins pitching event.
Swiss film industry could receive cash boost from streaming platforms
Online services such as Netflix and Amazon will be asked to invest 4% of their annual turnover in local Swiss production.
Busan’s Asian Project Market unveils selection of 29 projects
Line-up includes new titles from Yosep Anggi Noen, Hussein Hassan, Ash Mayfair and Hu Jia.
Ffilm Cymru Wales selects five features in latest funding round
Titles include Catherine Linstrum’s ’This Earth Is Not Our Home’.
Berlinale World Cinema Fund selects projects from Argentina, the Philippines, South Africa
The Fund has awarded production and distribution funding of €386,400 to 13 films.
British Council, BFI to fund three £10,500 short films focused on LGBTQ+ subjects
Producer Loran Dunn to oversee new initiative.
