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Features“’Klondike’ is a woman’s perspective of war,” says director Maryna Er Gorbach
Ukraine’s Maryna Er Gorbach made Klondike before the 2022 Russian invasion — but her film is rooted in a conflict that has been ongoing since 2014. The writer/director tells Screen about her timely Oscar contender.
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Features‘EO’ director hopes the film’s donkey protagonist will inspire more respect for animal rights
EO is Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski’s first film since 2015.
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New talent - UK Stars of Tomorrow 2008
"The US has money but a shortage of stories. And in the UK, there is material and talent without financing. It's a marriage made in heaven." So said Mark Gill of The Film Department at the end of last year. Financial incentives and exchange rates will wax and wane but ...
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New talent - Where are they now' - The Class of 2007
THE ACTORSArsher Ali spent most of the year at the Royal Shakespeare Company in The Merchant Of Venice, The Taming Of The Shrew and The Tragedy Of Thomas Hobbs.Following his starring role in The Kite Runner, Khalid Abdalla has just completed Paul Greengrass' Green Zone.Gemma Arterton won acclaim for her ...
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New talent - The Actors part 1
BEN ALDRIDGEHe has not yet graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda) but Ben Aldridge has already caught the eye of UK casting directors. Earlier this year he was cast opposite Parminder Nagra and Ray Winstone in the ITV drama Compulsion and from there he went ...
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New talent - The Film-makers part 1
ANDREW HAIGH - WRITER-DIRECTORAndrew Haigh cut his teeth in the editing suite, on such mainstream hits as Gladiator and Notting Hill, but his own shorts display a much more indie sensibility. His debut, Oil, employs fast cutting and voiceover to create a poetic and poignant portrait of a man reminiscing ...
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UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2007:The Actors (3)
Confidence, charisma and charm characterise the hottest young actors in the UK. Patricia Dobson profiles the emerging talent. (Click on contact names for links)TOM PAYNEHaving made his mark on the small screen, Tom Payne has taken his first steps into feature films. He stars alongside Frances McDormand, Ciaran Hinds and ...
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UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2007: The Actors (2)
Confidence, charisma and charm characterise the hottest young actors in the UK. Patricia Dobson profiles the emerging talent.(Click on contact names for links)ANDREW GARFIELDIt is his performance in three plays - Beautiful Thing, Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship and The Overwhelming, for which he won the Evening Standard newcomers award late last year - ...
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UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2006: where are they now'
From winning international awards to being cast by Woody Allen, Patricia Dobson catches up with the Screen class of 2006. (Bolded names link to IMDB profiles)THE ACTORS- Riz Ahmed filmed Peter Kosminsky's Britz, due for transmission in October, and is playing the lead in Eran Creevy's Shifty.- Joe Anderson recently ...
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UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2007: The Actors (1)
Confidence, charisma and charm characterise the hottest young actors in the UK. Patricia Dobson profiles the emerging talent. (Click on contact names for links) KHALID ABDALLAFollowing his performance as the lead terrorist in Paul Greengrass’ riveting United 93, the Anglo-Egyptian Khalid Abdalla stars in Marc Forster’s adaptation of bestselling novel ...
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UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2007: The Film-makers (2)
Patricia Dobson shines the spotlight on the UK’s best new writers, directors and producers. (Click on contact names for links)DEBORAH HAYWOODWriter-director For a first-timer, Deborah Haywood has made an impressive short. Lady Margaret begins with a teenage girl innocently hitching a ride with two teenage boys. She fancies one of ...
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UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2007
From actors to directors, producers to writers, Screen International introduces the brightest new hopes of the British film industry.The ActorsBritish performers are renowned around the world. Patricia Dobson profiles the hottest new names emerging from the UK’s drama schools, theatres and TV productions. - Click here for StarsOf Tomorrow ...
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One2One producers: Nira Park, Anna Higgs and Gavin Humphries
Nira Park, the producer of Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, talks to Stars Of Tomorrow Anna Higgs and Gavin Humphries about the importance of talent relationships, finding a good line producer and how to get more money from a financierGavin Humphries: You started out in television. Were you ...
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One2One: directors Anand Tucker and Hope Dickson Leach
Anand Tucker has just returned to low-budget UK film-making after leaving The Golden Compass last year due to creative differences. He tells Star of Tomorrow Hope Dickson Leach about meeting Steve Martin, having a good time and why directing is overrated Dickson Leach: How did you get into directing'Anand Tucker: ...
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One2One writers: Neal Purvis and Robert Wade with Peter Harness
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are one of the UK's most successful writing partnerships. They talk to Star of Tomorrow Peter Harness about scripting Bond, working with Robert Rodriguez and knowing when a script is finishedPeter Harness: When did you start writing together'Neal Purvis: We started writing in 1984. Let ...
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Kahleen Crawford: cast away
Casting director Kahleen Crawford is frustrated by the lack of confidence in UK actors among some UK producers, she tells Patricia Dobson. If working with Des Hamilton, whose most recent acting discovery was This Is England's much-praised Thomas Turgoose, taught Kahleen Crawford anything, it was to keep an open mind. ...
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Distribution - A shorts story about talent
Ask any new film-maker why they made a short and they will likely say they wanted to tell a story and to explore their craft. But it is also true shorts act as a commercial for a film-maker's talent - and in the age of YouTube, getting a calling card ...
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United Kingdom - Musical Journey
With the box-office success of films like Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster - which grossed $1.2m in the US in 2004 - rock documentaries are proving that they are not just the preserve of a niche market of nerdy music geeks. That, at least, was the thinking behind the recent ...
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United Kingdom - Rise of the Gilbeys
When Julian Gilbey was told he had received a Bafta nomination for special achievement by a first-time British film-maker, he thought someone was pulling his leg. But while his film Rollin' With The Nines enjoyed only modest commercial returns last year, it won the best film jury prize at the ...
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UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2006
Screen International unveils today its 2006 Stars Of Tomorrow, a comprehensive round-up of the hottest new talent in the UK film industry.Published in this week's Screen International, the annual talent survey highlights the brightest actors, directors, writers, producers and behind-the-scenes talent in the UK. More than 40 new names are ...
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