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Cannes 2008 - Market/UK - British buyers conclude slew of deals
2008-05-28 15:21:43UK buyers have been amongst the most aggressive at this year's Cannes market as is reflected in the sheer number of deals struck. Curzon Artificial Eye has acquired Palm D'Or winner The Class, Jury Prize winner Il Divo, Bent Hamer's O'Horten and Wong Kar Wai's Ashes Of Time Redux for the UK. Optimum have taken UK rights to Radu Mihaileanu's drama The Concert, and have also snapped up...
Industry - UK - British youth get film bonanza
2008-06-06 12:00:13The UK's leading film organisations have joined hands to craft the first countrywide film education strategy. Film: 21st Century Literacy aims to enhance film education in the UK so that the youth have better opportunities to watch, understand and make films. The initiative is being led by the British Film Institute, FILMCLUB, First Light Movies, Film Education, and the UK Film Council...
Industry - UK - New direction for British filmmakers
2008-06-16 05:00:06The Directors Guild of Great Britain (DGGB) has deregistered as a trade union and has become a not-for-profit Community Interest Company. This has been done in order to support the work of its sister charity the Directors Guild Trust. The DGGB will continue its ongoing activities of promoting directors and their work and aiding industry newcomers with an expanded programme of events,...
Festivals - UK - British festivals get huge cash injection
2008-06-16 05:00:06The UK Film Council is awarding British film festivals £740,000 over the next three years, enabling them to raise their profile. Belfast's Cinemagic World Screen Film and Television Festival for Young People gets £150,000 enabling it to expand to Scotland, Wales, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield and Bristol. The Bird's Eye View Film Festival gets £175,000 and expands its...
Festivals - UK - BRITDOC 08 promises stellar line-up
2008-07-08 05:00:07Sundance winner Man on Wire, war photographer documentary Blood Trail, and the inspirational Day After Peace, about a peace campaigner questing for a rare day of world peace, are amongst 17 feature-length documentaries and shorts from Britain and around the world to be screened at the BRITDOC Festival, Keble College, Oxford (July 23-25). This year, for the first time, the festival...
Hans-Christian Schmid and Britta Knoeller - Producers: Part of the process
2008-07-09 05:00:04It is now four years since German director Hans-Christian Schmid decided to launch his own production company 23|5 Filmproduktion. "I had moved to Berlin in 2000 and I wanted to have here what I'd had with Claussen+Woebke+Putz in Munich," Schmid recalls. "A base for the films I wanted to make. A more egoistical reason was that I wanted to own my films. I was also interested in working with...
Box Office - UK - British films rake in $3.3 billion globally
2008-07-23 05:00:14British films took $3.3bn globally - equal to 700 million admissions - in 2007, up 50% from 2006, according to the UK Film Council's (UKFC) Statistical Yearbook. However, the take is lower than 2005's record breaking $3.6bn. British films accounted for 29% of the total UK box office out of 516 films released, up from 19% in 2006 with seven of the top 20 films at the UK box office in 2007...
Industry - UK - British films in the Microwave
2008-08-19 05:00:04Film London's micro-budget filmmaking scheme, Microwave, has now opened for the next round of applications. The scheme requires filmmakers to make a complete feature film for £100,000 or below, including all cash and in-kind support. Film London's support ranges from £50,000 - £75,000 with most of the awards in the former range. The scheme was launched in 2006 with the support of Skillset...
Festivals - UK - British wave set to sweep Toronto
2008-08-22 05:00:07The British film industry has a significant presence at the Toronto Film Festival this year with 25 films chosen in the line-up. Some of the selected films have already garnered acclaim and awards in major festivals like Cannes and Berlin. Mike Leigh's comedy Happy-Go-Lucky won an award in Berlin for actress Sally Hawkins. Terence Davies' love song to Liverpool Of Time and the City and...
Festivals - UK - Strong British, European presence at LFF
2008-09-11 05:00:05The main programme for the upcoming Times BFI London Film Festival (LFF) boasts of a strong British and European presence amongst 189 features and 108 shorts. Apart from closing night film Slumdog Millionaire, the British contingent is well represented with the Nick Moran's Telstar, Eran Creevy's Shifty and Gerald McMorrow's Franklyn enjoying their world premieres at the festival. Other...
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