All UK/Ireland articles – Page 983
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Ecosse teams with Control writer for John Lennon project
BAFTA-winning Control screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh is now developing Nowhere Boy, about John Lennon's relationship with his mother and aunt. Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae of Ecosse Films (Brideshead Revisited, The Water Horse) will produce. The script has been co-developed with distributor 2 Entertain.Greenhalgh is basing the script on John's sister ...
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Film London in pre-production on three more Microwave features
Film London's low-budget Microwave scheme has three new films in pre-production: Suki Singh's psychological thriller Analogue; Jes Benstock's Alternative Miss World documentary, The British Guide to Showing Off (working title); and Kolton Lee's Freestyle, a teen romance set in the world of freestyle basketball.This year's applications are now open and ...
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Swinton's Ballerina Ballroom Fest to open with Henry Hathaway
The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, the eccentric new filmfestival in Nairn, Scotland, being organised by Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins, has announced details of its first programme.The festival kicks off the afternoon of Aug 15 with Peter Ibbetson's Henry Hathaway (1935), an amour fou drama described as one of ...
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European Commission urges film preservation in digital age
Most films will be distributed in digital format within the next five years, which might be good news for cinemas, but it also has serious implications for Europe's film heritage.That is one of the key conclusions of a new European Commission (EC) report measuring European Union (EU) progress in preserving ...
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Raindance.tv finds initial funding, sets board chaired by Chris Auty
Raindance.tv, a new online platform for independent film, has said that it has successfully completed its initial fund raising, backed by a dozen private investors.The business was started 10 months ago to aggregate and distribute independent films to third parties. The plc was incorporated in January 2008 and fund-raising for ...
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New Wave continues buying with Christmas Tale, Sleep Furiously
Robert Beeson and Pam Engel's new UK distribution company New Wave Films has acquired two more films.They are Arnaud Desplechin's Cannes Competitor A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noel) and Gideon Koppel's documentary Sleep Furiously.A Christmas Tale, already a box-office success in France, stars Catherine Deneuve and Mathieu Amalric. In ...
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Lance Daly's Kisses wins Best Irish Feature at Galway
Lance Daly's Kisses took the laurels for Best Irish Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh in a year when the category was hotly contested by an unprecedented 14 Irish dramatic features, contenders among them being Ivan Kavanagh's Our Wonderful Home, Ian Fitzgibbon's A Film With Me in It and Rick ...
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Secret Of Kells takes Ireland's Directors Finders Series Award
Tomm Moore's Irish animation feature The Secret of Kells will be given a showcase screening on Sept 19 at the DGA Theatre, Los Angeles, to an audience of American distributors and industry personnel with the aim of securing a US distribution deal for the film.Selected by an international panel, The ...
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Arts Alliance joins anti-copyright theft group Industry Trust
Digital film services company Arts Alliance Media has become a member of the Industry Trust for IP Awareness.The industry group battles copyright theft.AAM joins the Trust as it starts on the second phase of a new communications campaign, launched in July 2007. Its 2008 anti-copyright theft message will move from ...
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Local writers take prizes at Cheltenham's recent Screenwriters Fest
The third Screenwriters' Festival (July 1-3) announced awards for its workshop schemes for local writers Script_1 and Future Street, with competitions sponsored by LSC, South West Screen and Gloucestershire County Council.The Script_1 winners were: Marc Griffiths for The Storm Watch, Carol Sheppard for Grey and Steve Edwards for Shopping Addict. ...
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Hastings, Lemos named VPs at British ratings board
After an open competition, Alison Hastings and Gerard Lemos have been appointed as vice presidents of the British Board of Film Classfication (BBFC), which rates UK film and video releases.They will take their posts in November when Janet Lewis-Jones and John Taylor step down after ten years in the same ...
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McCaul named as Irish general manager for Paramount
Paramount Pictures International (Ireland) has announced the appointment of Niamh McCaul as general manager.Since 2002, McCaulhas been managingdirector ofEclipse Pictures, Ireland's largest independent film distribution company.He wasinstrumental in the successful Irish releases of The Magdalene Sisters, The Passion of The Christ, La Vie En Rose, and Irish titles such as ...
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Rothwell, Hill, Walker among pitchers for BritDoc
The BritDoc festival, which is gearing up for its third edition July 23-25, has selected the 12 projects to pitch live for funders at the Big Pitch session.The 12 projects are:Donor 150, dir. Jerry Rothwell About one sperm donor's many children.Breaking China, dir. Sarah McCarthy About Universal's creation of a ...
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Film London board adds Aston, Comer, and Fletcher
UK screen agency Film London has appointed three new board members.They are: Emily Aston, a lecturer at London Metropolitan University and a longtime producer; Stuart Comer, curator of film at Tate Modern; and Edward Fletcher, co-founder and managing director of independent distributor Soda Pictures.Sandy Lieberson, Chair of Film London said: ...
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Charlotte Clark joins UK digital marketing agency Jam
London-based dgital agency Jam has hired Charlotte Clark as its new head of PR.Clark had been at Way To Blue where Warner Music International was her main client.Jam has worked on digital marketing for projects including Juno, Step Up 2 The Streets, Adulthood, Mamma Mia! and Guy Ritchie's forthcoming Rocknrolla.Daniel ...
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Skillset minority fellowships select 10 new participants
The Skillset Graduate Fellowship Programme 2008 has selected this year's participants.The initiative, backed by Skillset and the UK Film Council, gives paid placements at leading film companies for graduates from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.The scheme pays a training allowance up to about $34,000 (£17,000) per year. Fellows also ...
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Pretty Pictures buys French rights to Clubbed from AV
Pretty Pictures has acquired all French-speaking rights to Neil Thompson's Clubbed from AV Pictures.AV has also sold the film for include Australasia (21st Century Pictures), Benelux (European Film Partners), Middle East (Falcon Films), Poland (Vision) and Turkey (Horizon International).The story, set in 1980s clubland, stars Colin Salmon, Mel Raido an ...
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Interview: Sam Taylor-Wood
UK artist Sam Taylor-Wood has had her share of art-world accolades but was humbled by the chance to screen her first short film in Competition at Cannes.'It's beyond exciting, it's such an honour and a privilege,' she says. The Film4-backed short Love You More also happened to be the only ...
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In focus - No middle ground for UK indies'
When Tartan Films Distribution went into administration in late June, the rest of the UK independent distribution sector shuddered. International sales agents also winced, especially those handling Asian fare.Tartan's ground-breaking Asia Extreme label brought Japanese, South Korean and Hong Kong movies by directors such as Takashi Miike, Hideo Nakata and ...
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In Focus: Postcard from Edinburgh
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) closed its successful first June edition on June 29, completing the initial stage in its self-proclaimed mission to realise the event as the world's 'premiere festival of discovery'.A traditional fixture in August, the film festival shifted dates to avoid the city's overcrowded festival season ...