Mia Hansen-Løve’s If Love Should Die and Ashim Ahluwalia’s Unidentified Access are among seven co-productions receiving a combined £1.2m ($1.6m) in funding from the UK Global Screen Fund (UKGSF)’s latest round.
The projects are backed through the international co-production fund, with a further £510,000 for 18 projects through the international distribution fund.
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Mary Wollstonecraft biopic If Love Should Die receives £250,000, the joint-biggest award so far through the international co-production fund.
The film was developed and will be produced by Thembisa Cochrane and Georgie Paget of the UK’s Caspian Films, with UK producers Saskia Duff and Joshua Horsfield of Intake Films collaborating with Irish majority co-producer Wildcard, Spain’s Elastica Films, France’s Les Films Pelleas, and Norway’s Mer Film.
Unidentified Access looks at the dark side of Indian cinema and the broken lives it has left behind. Alastair Clark of Wellington Films is the UK producer on the UK minority co-production, with India’s Future East Film, and Germany’s Rapid Eye Movies and The Post Republic. The film is receiving £185,000 from the Co-production fund.
Five titles have been supported through the distribution fund’s print & advertising support track, including £93,100 for Pablo Trapero’s & Sons, adapted from David Gilbert’s novel and sold by Bankside Films.
The 13 titles supported by the distribution fund’s festival launch support track include £7,330 for Carol Morley’s 7 Miles Out, which has its world premiere next week in competition at BFI London Film Festival.
The UKGSF budget increased from £7m to over £18m per year for 2026 to 2029 as part of the government’s Screen Growth package. Since April, the Fund has launched three funds, for Video Game Release, Slate Development and Film Sales Minimum Guarantee, with a majority co-production fund expected to launch early next year.
“The way we make content is constantly evolving,” said Yordanova, director of the UKGSF and BFI international funds. “It was incredible that in this time of rapid change, the screen sector came together in an unprecedented way across film, TV, games, immersive, distribution, and worked with government to create something that speaks not about looking inwards, but looking outside and collaborating.”
Yordanova was talking at a reception to celebrate the fifth anniversary of UKGSF today (October 9), as part of the BFI London Film Festival. She reported 73 co-productions supported across the five years of the fund from 37 territories, with almost £12m of public funding.
UK Global Screen Fund October 2026 awards
International Co-production awards
If Love Should Die (Intake Films) - £250,000
In Search Of The Lost World (Hopscotch Films) - £75,000
Little Badman (Big Deal Films) - £250,000
Lux Noctis (Finite Films & TV) - £120,000
The Mammoths That Escaped The Kingdom Of Erlik Khan (The Corner Shop Productions) - £103,000
Unidentified Access (Wellington Films) - £185,000
Whatever You Do… Don’t Laugh! (King Banana TV) - £250,000
International Distribution awards, P&A Support track
& Sons (Bankside Films) - £93,100
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Hot Property Films) - £95,400
On The Sea (Red Union Films) - £16,100
Sunny Dancer (27 Ten Productions) - £98,400
Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day (WestEnd Films) - £73,900
International Distribution awards, Festival Launch Support track
7 Miles Out (Cannon and Morley Productions) – £7,330
Act 3 (65 Wilding Films) - £3,200
Ancestors (Lunatica) - £15,000
Faith (Bankside Films) - £15,000
Masc (Duktiga) - £4,990
Our Share Of Sand (Fifth Mirror Pictures) - £15,000
Out There (Film Seekers) - £8,550
Prima Facie (Embankment Films) - £15,000
Rain Catcher (Yellow Pill Films) - £5,940
Salvation (Lane Films) - £8,800
Stuffed (Cornerstone Films) - £15,000
The State Of Us (Circus Screen Studios) - £7,800
Zero Intention Of Living Quietly (Lovelace Films) - £6,350Yor
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