All UK & Europe Newsletter articles – Page 44
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FeaturesThe lowdown on all the Cannes 2020 Official Selection titles
Fifty-six titles were selected to receive the Cannes 2020 label this year.
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FeaturesHow drive-in cinemas are coming to the UK this summer
UK drive-in venues hope to ease audiences back into the cinema.
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NewsUK independent cinemas secure emergency funding from BFI
Financial awards made to 130 members of the BFI’s Film Audience Network (FAN).
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NewsBFI Distribution acquires ‘Buñuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles’ for UK; sets digital release (exclusive)
Salvador Simó’s animated feature won at the European Film Awards in December.
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NewsTom Hanks WWII drama ‘Greyhound’ gets summer release on Apple TV+
Playtone Production from Sony Pictures/Stage Six Films will debut in more than 100 countries.
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NewsReport calls for UK film tax relief of 50% for documentaries
Study suggests BFI should ringfence 25% of Lottery funding for documentaries.
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NewsBohemia acquires ‘Clemency’, sets UK release with racial justice organisations (exclusive)
Phil Hunt and Lucy Fenton launched the new UK company in January.
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NewsCairo’s new artistic director Ahmed Shawky resigns, publishes open letter
His resignation has come after reportedly controversial social media posts in Arabic came to light.
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NewsDutch film industry plots post-lockdown revival
Netherlands Film Fund head Bero Beyer has an additional €5m to navigate the pandemic.
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NewsBankside boards Stacey Gregg’s ‘Here Before’ starring Andrea Riseborough (exclusive)
The UK sales outfit will be introducing the project to buyers at the Cannes virtual Marche.
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NewsBafta Rocliffe unveils winners of new writing competition (exclusive)
Dominic Flint, Lawrence Pumfrey and Claire Tailyour were chosen by the jury.
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News‘Bad Boys For Life’ directors among 10 projects to win Flanders funding
‘Rebel’ to be directed by Belgian duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah.
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NewsProduction Guild of Great Britain names Lyndsay Duthie as CEO
Replaces Alison Small, who stepped down in March to join Netflix.
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NewsVirtual Marché unveils full Cannes Docs programme
Ten exhibitors to be featured as part of platform.
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FeaturesSydney Film Festival & EFP’s European women filmmakers to watch
The Europe! Voices of Women in Film programme is now in its fifth year.
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NewsWild Bunch secures €35m loan from Germany’s Commerzbank
The company said the loan was an important part of the financial strategy of the European filmed entertainment group.
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NewsTwickenham Studios' Andrew Boswell returns to UK's LipSync (exclusive)
Commercial director returns to post-production house after four years at UK studio.
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NewsIreland’s WRAP Fund backs BBC Films' ‘God’s Creatures’, horror title ‘The Ten Steps’
The regional fund is for projects that shoot in the west of Ireland.
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NewsBona Film Group vice president dies in apparent suicide
Huang Wei is understood to have died by suicide by jumping from the studio’s corporate headquarters in Beijing.