All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 114
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Brighton hosts convergence conference
The Screen East MediaNetwork will host d-media, the Digital Media Conference, on December 1-2 at theGrand Hotel in Brighton. The theme of the conference is "convergence is areality: how to thrive in the 'converged' world."Theconference will discuss the changing role of games, TV, film and animation andemerging distribution platforms. The ...
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BAFTA to consider 246 films for nominations
Thereare 246 films being considered for BAFTAnominations this year. Ina change in BAFTA policy, films were required to be entered for considerationfor the first time this year. In past years, every film released in UK cinemas wasautomatically considered, which meant that last year about 450 films wereeligible for nominations. Filmswere ...
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Grierson Trust Honours Kahn's My Architect
The Grierson Trust's British Documentary Awards have announced its 2005 winners. Most of the awards are given to TV documentaries, but the UK Film Council award for best international cinema documentary went to Nathaniel Kahn's My Architect. Other winners were Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi's Sisters in Law for the ...
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Troika launches London-based talent agency
Talent industry veterans Michael Duff, Conor McCaughan and Melanie Rockcliffe have formed a new London-based talent agency, Troika.Troika will represent actors, comedians and presenters for film, TV and theatre work. The company's clients include Paul Bettany, Paddy Considine, Keeley Hawes, David Morrissey, Graham Norton, Matt Lucas and David Walliams."The new ...
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Spanish short takes big prize at UK's Brief Encounters
The UK's largestshort film festival, Brief Encounters, has awarded its international jury prizeto Spanish short Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! by Marcal Fores.Other winners atthe 11th Bristol International Short Film Festival were Bristol-basedfilm-makers Sam Hearn and Richard Penfold of Omni Productions, whose short Indians won the ITV West Award and its £1,000prize. ...
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Roger Michell Starts London Shoot For Venus
Director Roger Michell has started principal photography on his next feature, Venus, which is described as a "coming of very-old-age story."The film reunites Michell (Notting Hill, Changing Lanes) with producer Kevin Loader and writer Hanif Kureishi, who previously worked together on feature film The Mother and TV series The Buddha ...
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Polish fest honours Fiennes, Menzel, Delli Coli
Poland's Camerimage Festival has awarded its Krzysztof Kieslowski award to actor Ralph Fiennes. Czech director Jiri Menzel also received a festival award, the Special Golden Frog, for his"exceptional visual sensibility." The career achievement award was given posthumously to Italian cinematographer Tonino Delli Coli, who recently passed away.Festival director Marek Zydowicz ...
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Birmingham to host film-literature conference
Birmingham's Midlands Arts Centre will host the Lost in Adaptation conference, exploring the links between film and literature, from December 2-4.Speakers will include director Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham), novelist Jonathan Coe (The Rotters Club), screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions), novelist Helen Cross (My Summer of Love) and producer ...
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Andrea makes something of Big Nothing as filming begins
Jean-BaptisteAndrea will start principal photography on December 4 for the black comedy BigNothing. The cast featuresJoining David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg, Natasha McElhone, Mimi Rogers, MauryChaykin, and Alice Eve. The film is about a frustrated teacher who embarks on ablackmailing scheme with two con artists. Big Nothing is a Pathe Pictures ...
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European sales initiative announces first results
European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support initiative hasannounced its first sales results, with 35% of its supported features films anddocumentaries selling for local distribution after festival screenings. The initiative supports European sales agents and producersto market European film at film festivals in Latin America, East Asia, Canadaand the US. Since ...
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UK Film Council renews completion funds for short film
The UK Film Council's NewCinema Fund has announced that its completion fund for short film-makers willdistribute ($90,000) £50,000 in post-production funds during 2006.The scheme, which is run byMaya Vision International, encourages short filmmakers to apply with rough cutsand receive funding for completion. Brief Encounters, theInternational Short Film Festival in Bristol, ...
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New joint MD at Capitol predicts bumper Berlin
The new joint managing director of London-basedCapitol Films, Nick Hill, is predicting an "incredibly busy" European Film Market in Berlin.The former chief executive of IconEntertainment was appointed last week and is feeling confident heading into his first major market in the role."We - as everybody - hope that we'll ...
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Pathe signs nine new deals for Frears' The Queen
Pathe Pictures International has announced a slew of deals closed at the recent American Film Market. Pathe screened footage from Stephen Frears' The Queen for buyers and sold rights to Avex Entertainment for Japan, Vertigo for Spain, Sandrew Metronome for Scandinavia, Prooptiki for Greece and the former Yugoslavia, LNK for ...
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Apted starts UK shoot for Walden's Amazing Grace
Director Michael Apted has started principal photography on Amazing Grace, a feature film about antislavery pioneer William Wilberforce.The film is a Walden Media production. Terrence Malick and Ed Pressman are producing for Sunflower Productions with Patricia Heaton and David Hunt for FourBoys Films as well as Ken Wales, Mark Cooper ...
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New ending Pride on 12 UK screens
Universal plans a 12-screenUK release of the alternate version of Pride & Prejudice that was recentlyunveiled in the US. The US version of the film has an extended ending thatwasn't seen during the original UK release. Starting November 25,United International Pictures will release the extended version in select UKand Irish ...
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Greengrass starts shooting 9/11 re-enactment at Pinewood
Director Paul Greengrass has started principal photography on his9/11 feature film Flight 93 for Universal Pictures and Working Title Films in associationwith Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.Greengrass (Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Supremacy) started shooting Flight 93 at the UK's Pinewood Studios on November14, and shooting will continue on location in the UK ...
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Northern Lights shine on UK production issues
The UK needs to focus on building a low-budget production base and to stand up more strongly for its interests, visitors to this year's Northern Lights FilmFestival's Industry Summit, held in Newcastle upon Tyne heard.The future of UK production was among the hottest topics at the event, which attracted an ...
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Online rental to take half the home DVD market by 2009
By 2009, more than half of the UK's home videorentals will be online transactions, according to a new report from ScreenDigest. Currently, online rentals (ordered via theInternet and delivered by post) are just over 10% of the UK market. The report predicts that similar patterns willemerge in Europe, with Germany's ...
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Frears wraps shoot for The Queen
Stephen Frears has completed principal photography on his new feature The Queen. Shooting wrapped in Paris on November 10 after a nine-week shoot on location in Scotland and around London.The film looks at the way the British royal family and Prime Minister Tony Blair responded to the death of Princess ...
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UK Film Council to support South African writers
Ahead of the planned signing of a UK-South African co-production treaty, the UK Film Council has announced a partnership with South Africa's National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) to launch a new initiative for South African writers.The new competition aims to fast-track "high concept screenplays which are aimed at the ...