Rebecca Hall

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Rebecca Hall

Maria Martinez Bayona’s The End Of It and Jim O’Hanlon’s Rabbit Hayes are among 11 projects to receive funding through the UK Global Screen Fund, via the fund’s international co-production strand.

It is financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). This round, the awards allocate over £1.65m to support UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions. To date the strand has now awarded nearly £9m to 57 co-productions.

In this round, funding supports partnerships with Canada, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Switzerland.

Bayona’s The End Of It stars Rebecca Hall, Gael Garcia Bernal, Noomi Rapace and Beanie Feldstein, and is set in a near-future world where ageing can be cured and death is now optional. It is a minority UK co-production through Elation Pictures with Spain’s Fasten Films and Norway’s Eye To Eye Pictures. The project was fast-tracked under the UK Global Screen Fund co-production strand. 

O’Hanlon’s Rabbit Hayes is based on Anna McPartlin’s best-selling novel The Last Days Of Rabbit Hayes about a 40-year-old with breast cancer who has nine days left to live. It is a minority UK co-production through Forty Foot Pictures with Ireland’s Feline Films and the Netherlands’ Bind Film.

Also awarded was Sophie Heldman’s Scotch Verdict starring Flora Nicholson, Clare Dunne, Fiona Shaw, and Mia Tharia. It is based on the true story of two women who founded a girls’ school in Edinburgh in 1810. A minority UK co-production through Nadira Murray’s Sylph Productions, the project is produced with Germany’s Heimatfilm and Switzerland’s Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion.

Further awarded projects include Greek director Konstantinos Antonopoulos’ debut feature Glory B about two pilloried convicts in 703AD who are shipwrecked on a deserted island. UK producer Helen Simmons’ Erebus Pictures is a minority co-producer with Greece’s Either Or productions and Italy’s Vivo Films.

There are also three animated TV series and three documentaries which received funding.

UK GSF latest international co-production awards

Captain Onion’s Buoyant Academy for Wayward Youth (UK-Ire) - series 
Series creator: Matthew Bradley 
Prod: ALT Animation, Scottish Wild Child Animation, Irish Studio Maela 

Glory B (Gre-It-UK)
Dir: Konstantinos Antonopoulos
Prod: Erebus Pictures, Either Or Productions, Vivo Films 

Luna In Dreamland (UK-Bra) - series
Dir: Johnny Schumann
Prod: Flickerpix, Copa Studio Produtora Audiovisual

MaeBee (UK-Ire) - series 
Dir: Tim O’Sullivan, Rebecca O’Sullivan 
Prod: Karrot Entertainment, Kavaleer Productions 

Rabbit Hayes (Ire-Neth-UK)
Dir: Jim O’Hanlon 
Prod: Forty Foot Pictures, Feline Films, Dutch Bind Film 

Scotch Verdit (working title) (Ger-Switz-UK)
Dir: Sophie Heldman 
Prod: Sylph Productions, Heimatfilm, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion

She Sings Of Murder And Love (Ire-UK)
Dir: Virginia Heath 
Prod: Faction North, EZ Films 

Survival Of The Slowest (UK-Can) - TV documentary 
Dir: Jean-Marc Abela
Prod: Attaboy TV, Les Productions Megafun 

The End Of It (Sp-Nor-UK)
Dir: Maria Martinez Bayona 
Prod: Elation Pictures, Fasten Films, Eye to Eye Pictures 

The Mad World Of Harvey Kurtzman (Can-UK) - documentary
Dir: Bart Simpson
Prod:  Aconite Films, Intuitive Pictures Productions 

You’ll Never Believe Who’s Dead (Ire-UK)
Dir: Dallan Shovlin 
Prod: Fine Point Films, Wildcard

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