Sheffield DocFest today announced the full industry program for its 31st edition, a lineup of panel discussions, marketplace sessions, live pitch forums, the annual Filmmaker Challenge, marketplace rough cuts and more.
The industry program runs concurrently with the festival from June 12-17. DocFest last week revealed a slate of 109 films that will be showcased in the 2024 event, including 49 world premieres.
“The Industry program dives into the business of documentary in all its many forms,” a release noted, “complimenting the previously announced film program, exploring the skills and techniques behind many of this year’s films…” [Scroll for the full lineup].
‘Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice’
Among the intriguing panel discussions is one set for Thursday, June 13 titled “Women in the Frame: Representing Women in Crime Documentaries,” which will include the participation of Kirsty Cunningham, creative director of the documentary Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice. That BBC Studios film, which premiered in the U.
The industry program runs concurrently with the festival from June 12-17. DocFest last week revealed a slate of 109 films that will be showcased in the 2024 event, including 49 world premieres.
“The Industry program dives into the business of documentary in all its many forms,” a release noted, “complimenting the previously announced film program, exploring the skills and techniques behind many of this year’s films…” [Scroll for the full lineup].
‘Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice’
Among the intriguing panel discussions is one set for Thursday, June 13 titled “Women in the Frame: Representing Women in Crime Documentaries,” which will include the participation of Kirsty Cunningham, creative director of the documentary Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice. That BBC Studios film, which premiered in the U.
- 5/15/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
McCance died aged 53 on December 19 last year, shortly after being diagnosed with cancer.
Colleagues and friends have paid tribute to “free spirit” and “brilliant role model”, Northern Ireland-born, Sweden-based film and TV writer and executive producer Ruth McCance, who has died aged 53 from cancer.
McCance was diagnosed in November of last year with stomach cancer, and died just five weeks later.
During her career she worked on films including Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher, Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love, Soren-Kragh Jakobson’s Skagerrak and Garth Jennings’s Son Of Rambow.
McCance grew up in Belfast. Her mother was a...
Colleagues and friends have paid tribute to “free spirit” and “brilliant role model”, Northern Ireland-born, Sweden-based film and TV writer and executive producer Ruth McCance, who has died aged 53 from cancer.
McCance was diagnosed in November of last year with stomach cancer, and died just five weeks later.
During her career she worked on films including Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher, Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love, Soren-Kragh Jakobson’s Skagerrak and Garth Jennings’s Son Of Rambow.
McCance grew up in Belfast. Her mother was a...
- 1/15/2024
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The film is directed by Bafta TV nominee Andy Mundy-Castle.
UK-based sales company Together Films has acquired international sales rights to Andy Mundy-Castle’s documentary White Nanny, Black Child.
Together Films will sell the title to buyers at documentary events Doc NYC (November 8-16) and IDFA (November 8-19).
Commissioned by the UK’s Channel 5 and co-financed by the BFI Doc Society fund, White Nanny, Black Child had its world premiere at Sheffield DocFest in June followed by a limited theatrical release. It won the documentary prize at the British Urban Film Festival earlier this month; and last week was...
UK-based sales company Together Films has acquired international sales rights to Andy Mundy-Castle’s documentary White Nanny, Black Child.
Together Films will sell the title to buyers at documentary events Doc NYC (November 8-16) and IDFA (November 8-19).
Commissioned by the UK’s Channel 5 and co-financed by the BFI Doc Society fund, White Nanny, Black Child had its world premiere at Sheffield DocFest in June followed by a limited theatrical release. It won the documentary prize at the British Urban Film Festival earlier this month; and last week was...
- 10/26/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
British Urban Film Festival drew to a close on October 20.
Andy Mundy-Castle’s documentary White Nanny, Black Child was among the winners at the British Urban Film Festival, which ran until October 20, and was held outside London for the first time in its history, at Halifax’s Crossley Gallery.
White Nanny, Black Child premiered at Sheffield Doc Fest and explores an untold part of UK history when over 70,000 children from West African families, principally Nigerian, were unofficially fostered without regulation into white British families between the 1950s and 1990s. Natasha Dack of Tigerlily Productions co-produces with Doc Hearts.
Further awards...
Andy Mundy-Castle’s documentary White Nanny, Black Child was among the winners at the British Urban Film Festival, which ran until October 20, and was held outside London for the first time in its history, at Halifax’s Crossley Gallery.
White Nanny, Black Child premiered at Sheffield Doc Fest and explores an untold part of UK history when over 70,000 children from West African families, principally Nigerian, were unofficially fostered without regulation into white British families between the 1950s and 1990s. Natasha Dack of Tigerlily Productions co-produces with Doc Hearts.
Further awards...
- 10/23/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Final five nominations to be announced on November 2.
Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall and Todd Haynes’ May December are among the titles on the latest British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) longlists, for Best Feature Documentary and Best International Independent Film.
15 films are on the documentary longlist, with five of them by first-time directors; with 17 films on the international list.
Scroll down for the longlists
Alongside McQueen’s film combining analysis of Amsterdam during the Second World War with the present day, documentary titles include Kevin MacDonald’s High & Low: John Galliano about the...
Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall and Todd Haynes’ May December are among the titles on the latest British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) longlists, for Best Feature Documentary and Best International Independent Film.
15 films are on the documentary longlist, with five of them by first-time directors; with 17 films on the international list.
Scroll down for the longlists
Alongside McQueen’s film combining analysis of Amsterdam during the Second World War with the present day, documentary titles include Kevin MacDonald’s High & Low: John Galliano about the...
- 10/19/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The documentary picked up the audience award at Lff and Hainan.
Eve Gabereau’s Modern Films has acquired UK and Ireland rights to the documentary Blue Bag Life which is co-directed by Rebecca Lloyd-Evans, Lisa Selby and Alex Fry.
The film picked up the audience award at last year’s BFI London Film Festival and Hainan International Film Festival and is competing at the upcoming Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival.
Blue Bag Life explores love, motherhood and addiction through the relationship of an addicted mother and the daughter she abandoned as a baby.
The documentary is written by Josie Cole and...
Eve Gabereau’s Modern Films has acquired UK and Ireland rights to the documentary Blue Bag Life which is co-directed by Rebecca Lloyd-Evans, Lisa Selby and Alex Fry.
The film picked up the audience award at last year’s BFI London Film Festival and Hainan International Film Festival and is competing at the upcoming Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival.
Blue Bag Life explores love, motherhood and addiction through the relationship of an addicted mother and the daughter she abandoned as a baby.
The documentary is written by Josie Cole and...
- 2/14/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
BFI, Screen Scotland back Tigerlily Productions’ feature documentary ‘Hong Kong Mixtape’ (exclusive)
It is the debut feature from Hong Kong Chinese-Scottish filmmaker San San F Young.
The British Film Institue (BFI) Doc Society and Screen Scotland have boarded feature doc Hong Kong Mixtape, the debut from Hong Kong Chinese-Scottish filmmaker San San F Young.
It is being produced by London and Glasgow-based Tigerlily Productions and is now in post.
The film examines the fight to protect creative freedoms in Hong Kong amid China’s introduction of a national security law that restricts certain words, images, books, slogans and songs.
Hong Kong Mixtape weaves the personal story of the film’s director, Young,...
The British Film Institue (BFI) Doc Society and Screen Scotland have boarded feature doc Hong Kong Mixtape, the debut from Hong Kong Chinese-Scottish filmmaker San San F Young.
It is being produced by London and Glasgow-based Tigerlily Productions and is now in post.
The film examines the fight to protect creative freedoms in Hong Kong amid China’s introduction of a national security law that restricts certain words, images, books, slogans and songs.
Hong Kong Mixtape weaves the personal story of the film’s director, Young,...
- 1/13/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) have revealed the nomination longlists for Best Feature Documentary and Best International Independent Film categories. In addition, BIFA’s Raindance Discovery Award longlist has also been unveiled.
Of the 15 films longlisted for Best Feature Documentary, eight are directed by women. The 17 films longlisted for Best International Independent Film have already won top prizes from this year’s premier international festivals.
The final five nominations in each category will be announced in early November and winners will be revealed at the 25th annual BIFA ceremony on Dec. 4.
Best International Independent Film Sponsored By Champagne Taittinger
“Alcarràs” – Carla Simón, María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno
“All The Beauty And The Bloodshed” – Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, John S. Lyons
“Argentina, 1985” – Santiago Mitre, Mariano Llinás, Axel Kuschevatzky, Federico Posternak, Agustina Llambi Campbell, Ricardo Darín, Santiago Carabante, Chino Darín, Victoria Alonso
“Broker” – Kore-eda Hirokazu,...
Of the 15 films longlisted for Best Feature Documentary, eight are directed by women. The 17 films longlisted for Best International Independent Film have already won top prizes from this year’s premier international festivals.
The final five nominations in each category will be announced in early November and winners will be revealed at the 25th annual BIFA ceremony on Dec. 4.
Best International Independent Film Sponsored By Champagne Taittinger
“Alcarràs” – Carla Simón, María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno
“All The Beauty And The Bloodshed” – Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, John S. Lyons
“Argentina, 1985” – Santiago Mitre, Mariano Llinás, Axel Kuschevatzky, Federico Posternak, Agustina Llambi Campbell, Ricardo Darín, Santiago Carabante, Chino Darín, Victoria Alonso
“Broker” – Kore-eda Hirokazu,...
- 10/21/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Noah Media Group Boards Irvine Welsh Doc
Netflix’s 14 Peaks producer Noah Media Group has boarded a documentary on cult Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and will shop the show at Mipcom Cannes next week. I Am Irvine Welsh, from Ls Films, followed a year in the life of the Scottish auteur as he adapted Trainspotting into a West End musical, published a new novel, launched a record label and worked on two TV series. The doc reflects on a remarkable life after Welsh was propelled into the spotlight when Trainspotting became a cult classic, starring Ewan McGregor, and he has since been prolific across literature, screenwriting and music. BAFTA-nominated Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché director Paul Sng is forging the doc, which is being exec produced by Sarah Drummond and produced by Natasha Dack. The show is 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible producer Noah’s first non-sport global sales project...
Netflix’s 14 Peaks producer Noah Media Group has boarded a documentary on cult Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and will shop the show at Mipcom Cannes next week. I Am Irvine Welsh, from Ls Films, followed a year in the life of the Scottish auteur as he adapted Trainspotting into a West End musical, published a new novel, launched a record label and worked on two TV series. The doc reflects on a remarkable life after Welsh was propelled into the spotlight when Trainspotting became a cult classic, starring Ewan McGregor, and he has since been prolific across literature, screenwriting and music. BAFTA-nominated Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché director Paul Sng is forging the doc, which is being exec produced by Sarah Drummond and produced by Natasha Dack. The show is 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible producer Noah’s first non-sport global sales project...
- 10/10/2022
- by Jesse Whittock, Max Goldbart and Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Noah will showcase it at Mipcom later this month.
UK-based Noah Media Group has boarded worldwide sales rights on I Am Irvine Welsh, a feature documentary about the Scottish author and screenwriter, ahead of this year’s Mipcom (October 17-20).
Directed by Paul Sng, I Am Irvine Welsh is produced by Natasha Dack, and began production earlier this year.
Sarah Drummond is executive producer for Ls Films.
I Am Irvine Welsh spends a year in the company of Welsh, as he publishes a new novel, launches a record label, works on two television series and adapts his most famous work...
UK-based Noah Media Group has boarded worldwide sales rights on I Am Irvine Welsh, a feature documentary about the Scottish author and screenwriter, ahead of this year’s Mipcom (October 17-20).
Directed by Paul Sng, I Am Irvine Welsh is produced by Natasha Dack, and began production earlier this year.
Sarah Drummond is executive producer for Ls Films.
I Am Irvine Welsh spends a year in the company of Welsh, as he publishes a new novel, launches a record label, works on two television series and adapts his most famous work...
- 10/9/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Sales to commence at MIPCOM this month.
UK-based Noah Media Group has boarded worldwide sales rights on I Am Irvine Welsh, a feature documentary about the Scottish author and screenwriter.
Sales will commence at MIPCOM (October 17-20) this month on the film, which is directed by Paul Sng and produced by Natasha Dack, and began production earlier this year.
Sarah Drummond is executive producer for Ls Films.
I Am Irvine Welsh spends a year in the company of Welsh, as he publishes a new novel, launches a record label, works on two television series and adapts his most famous work...
UK-based Noah Media Group has boarded worldwide sales rights on I Am Irvine Welsh, a feature documentary about the Scottish author and screenwriter.
Sales will commence at MIPCOM (October 17-20) this month on the film, which is directed by Paul Sng and produced by Natasha Dack, and began production earlier this year.
Sarah Drummond is executive producer for Ls Films.
I Am Irvine Welsh spends a year in the company of Welsh, as he publishes a new novel, launches a record label, works on two television series and adapts his most famous work...
- 10/9/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Ls Films’ slate also includes ’I Am Irvine Welsh’ about the ‘Trainspotting’ author.
Ls Films is expanding its Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) world premiere short Little Warrior into a feature entitled Pequena Guerrera.
The story is about a young female boxer, Johana Gomez of Venezuela, who works remotely with Scottish boxing trainer Gary Young, to follow her dreams of Olympic glory. Screen Scotland is supporting the feature’s development.
Little Warrior, which was commissioned by Guardian Documentaries, premieres Saturday (August 20) at Eiff during a special event that will also include a discussion with director Paul Sng, producer Sarah Drummond,...
Ls Films is expanding its Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) world premiere short Little Warrior into a feature entitled Pequena Guerrera.
The story is about a young female boxer, Johana Gomez of Venezuela, who works remotely with Scottish boxing trainer Gary Young, to follow her dreams of Olympic glory. Screen Scotland is supporting the feature’s development.
Little Warrior, which was commissioned by Guardian Documentaries, premieres Saturday (August 20) at Eiff during a special event that will also include a discussion with director Paul Sng, producer Sarah Drummond,...
- 8/18/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is on the jury for the key UK film prize.
Lee Haven Jones, Harry Wootliff and Rob Savage, the directors of The Feast, True Things and Dashcam respectively, have been shortlisted for the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with the BFI, which will be presented on Sunday October 17 as part of the BFI London Film Festival (Lff).
Haven Jones has been selected for his debut feature, while Wootliff and Savage are both selected for their second films. This year’s winner will be chosen by writer, actor and producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, alongside BFI CEO Ben Roberts.
Lee Haven Jones, Harry Wootliff and Rob Savage, the directors of The Feast, True Things and Dashcam respectively, have been shortlisted for the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with the BFI, which will be presented on Sunday October 17 as part of the BFI London Film Festival (Lff).
Haven Jones has been selected for his debut feature, while Wootliff and Savage are both selected for their second films. This year’s winner will be chosen by writer, actor and producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, alongside BFI CEO Ben Roberts.
- 10/1/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Gunpowder & Sky has teamed up with Working with Weinstein producer Tigerlily Production to develop a comedy series about women in the world of corporate banking.
The two companies are working on Assets, which follows five female interns, who must decide whether to fight, play or change the game as they struggle through a system which is designed wholly against them.
The producing team, who between them have worked on shows including The Thick of It, Misfits and Humans, said that the show “provides a fresh response to workplace sexism, patriarchy and the glass ceiling in a post #MeToo world”. It is exec produced by Natasha Dack, Nikki Parrott and Jennifer Monks.
“Gunpowder & Sky is driven by telling realistic, and sometimes unfortunately relatable stories,” said Pasa Mustafa, Creative Director at Gunpowder & Sky. “Tigerlily Productions have built an international reputation for tackling powerful subject matter with sensitivity and artistry. To that end,...
The two companies are working on Assets, which follows five female interns, who must decide whether to fight, play or change the game as they struggle through a system which is designed wholly against them.
The producing team, who between them have worked on shows including The Thick of It, Misfits and Humans, said that the show “provides a fresh response to workplace sexism, patriarchy and the glass ceiling in a post #MeToo world”. It is exec produced by Natasha Dack, Nikki Parrott and Jennifer Monks.
“Gunpowder & Sky is driven by telling realistic, and sometimes unfortunately relatable stories,” said Pasa Mustafa, Creative Director at Gunpowder & Sky. “Tigerlily Productions have built an international reputation for tackling powerful subject matter with sensitivity and artistry. To that end,...
- 12/13/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Abusers should be ‘full-on disgraced’ and self-regulation is failing victims, panellists argue.
Self-regulation of behaviour in TV industry is failing to punish harassers and destroying women’s careers, according to speakers at a Sheffield Doc/Fest panel.
Former Vice presenter Billie Jd Porter, who made allegations of inappropriate behaviour against the company earlier this year, said that more men in the industry “should be full-on disgraced” by abuse and bullying allegations following the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements.
Porter highlighted that men did not feel a fraction of the damage experienced by women who speak out about them, and...
Self-regulation of behaviour in TV industry is failing to punish harassers and destroying women’s careers, according to speakers at a Sheffield Doc/Fest panel.
Former Vice presenter Billie Jd Porter, who made allegations of inappropriate behaviour against the company earlier this year, said that more men in the industry “should be full-on disgraced” by abuse and bullying allegations following the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements.
Porter highlighted that men did not feel a fraction of the damage experienced by women who speak out about them, and...
- 6/12/2018
- by Manori Ravindran Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Working with Weinstein producer Natasha Dack has urged broadcasters to budget for harassment protection in the same way as environmental concerns, while presenter and filmmaker Billie Jd Porter said that more men in the UK television business need to be held to account over their actions in a wide-ranging #TimesUp panel at the Sheffield Doc/Fest.
The pair were joined on the panel – Times Up: The Industry Response to Bullying & Harassment – by Fiona Campbell, Controller of BBC News Mobile & Online, exec producer Jane Merlin and BAFTA’s Director of Learning & New Talent Tim Hunter.
Dack, who runs Tigerlily Productions, the company behind the recent Channel 4 Dispatches doc on Weinstein, said that broadcasters “really need to take a proper look at themselves” after revealing a story about a producer who had made a claim against an on-screen talent, described as a “national treasure”, but was rebuffed after the broadcaster took his side.
The pair were joined on the panel – Times Up: The Industry Response to Bullying & Harassment – by Fiona Campbell, Controller of BBC News Mobile & Online, exec producer Jane Merlin and BAFTA’s Director of Learning & New Talent Tim Hunter.
Dack, who runs Tigerlily Productions, the company behind the recent Channel 4 Dispatches doc on Weinstein, said that broadcasters “really need to take a proper look at themselves” after revealing a story about a producer who had made a claim against an on-screen talent, described as a “national treasure”, but was rebuffed after the broadcaster took his side.
- 6/11/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Trio of projects going into production in 2017.
Creative England has announced the latest recipients of its Production Fund, which supports filmmaking in the English regions using lottery funds via the BFI.
The three films are:
White Riot (working title) - dirs: Rubika Shah and Ed GibbsDawn Of The Dark Fox - dirs: Michael Smith and Tom StubbsSnodgrass – writer: David Quantick
The debut features are going into production in 2017 and were supported in development through Creative England’s lottery funded emerging talent strand as part of the BFI Network. The films are looking to close finance following the Cannes market.
Films that recently received Creative England lottery production funding include the Bifa-winning Adult Life Skills, Sundance winner God’s Own Country and Notes On Blindness. Critical hit Lady Macbeth was backed by Creative England through its iFeatures scheme.
Caroline Norbury, CEO of Creative England said: “These films, alongside our recent iFeatures greenlight projects, represent a ringing...
Creative England has announced the latest recipients of its Production Fund, which supports filmmaking in the English regions using lottery funds via the BFI.
The three films are:
White Riot (working title) - dirs: Rubika Shah and Ed GibbsDawn Of The Dark Fox - dirs: Michael Smith and Tom StubbsSnodgrass – writer: David Quantick
The debut features are going into production in 2017 and were supported in development through Creative England’s lottery funded emerging talent strand as part of the BFI Network. The films are looking to close finance following the Cannes market.
Films that recently received Creative England lottery production funding include the Bifa-winning Adult Life Skills, Sundance winner God’s Own Country and Notes On Blindness. Critical hit Lady Macbeth was backed by Creative England through its iFeatures scheme.
Caroline Norbury, CEO of Creative England said: “These films, alongside our recent iFeatures greenlight projects, represent a ringing...
- 5/19/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
At Screen International’s Efm panel at the Gropius Mirror restaurant, four international producers shared their tips for success and survival in the modern film landscape.
In an open and frank discussion, Sol Bondy of Germany’s One Two Films, Guneet Monga of India’s Sikhya Entertainment, Agnes Johansen from Iceland’s Rvk Studios (Baltasar Kormakur’s company) and Natasha Dack from the UK’s Tigerlily Productions shared their experiences on protecting producer’s fees, setting up international co-productions and managing cash flows better in order to navigate the lean times.
The panel, moderated by Screen contributing editor Wendy Mitchell, all agreed that surviving as an independent producer poses continual challenges but passion keeps them going.
Bondy, who co-produced Tom Shoval’s Youth (Berlinale Panorama 2013) and Pan Nalin’s Angry Indian Goddesses via One Two Films, was the only panellist who works exclusively in film. He credits the company’s angel investor and a focus on international...
In an open and frank discussion, Sol Bondy of Germany’s One Two Films, Guneet Monga of India’s Sikhya Entertainment, Agnes Johansen from Iceland’s Rvk Studios (Baltasar Kormakur’s company) and Natasha Dack from the UK’s Tigerlily Productions shared their experiences on protecting producer’s fees, setting up international co-productions and managing cash flows better in order to navigate the lean times.
The panel, moderated by Screen contributing editor Wendy Mitchell, all agreed that surviving as an independent producer poses continual challenges but passion keeps them going.
Bondy, who co-produced Tom Shoval’s Youth (Berlinale Panorama 2013) and Pan Nalin’s Angry Indian Goddesses via One Two Films, was the only panellist who works exclusively in film. He credits the company’s angel investor and a focus on international...
- 2/16/2016
- by matt.mueller@screendaily.com (Matt Mueller)
- ScreenDaily
‘Producers as Entrepreneurs’ will explore the current issues facing independent film producers as part of the Efm’s Industry Debates series.
What business models are working for independent producers? Are more people diversifying across television and digital media? How do producers protect their fees from getting cut when budgets tighten?
These questions and more will be addressed at the Producers as Entrepreneurs Efm (European Film Market) panel, hosted by Screen International on Feb 14 as part of the event’s 2016 Industry Debates series.
Panellists will include Sol Bondy (One Two Films), Natasha Dack (Tigerlily Films), Guneet Monga (Sikhya Entertainment), Agnes Johansen (Rvk Studios), plus others, with Screen International contributing editor Wendy Mitchell moderating.
Now in its tenth year, the Efm Industry Debates series attempts to shine a light on the major issues in the film industry.
The other Efm panels taking place this year are: Cross Border Currents: The Growing Influence of Korea on South East Asian Cinema...
What business models are working for independent producers? Are more people diversifying across television and digital media? How do producers protect their fees from getting cut when budgets tighten?
These questions and more will be addressed at the Producers as Entrepreneurs Efm (European Film Market) panel, hosted by Screen International on Feb 14 as part of the event’s 2016 Industry Debates series.
Panellists will include Sol Bondy (One Two Films), Natasha Dack (Tigerlily Films), Guneet Monga (Sikhya Entertainment), Agnes Johansen (Rvk Studios), plus others, with Screen International contributing editor Wendy Mitchell moderating.
Now in its tenth year, the Efm Industry Debates series attempts to shine a light on the major issues in the film industry.
The other Efm panels taking place this year are: Cross Border Currents: The Growing Influence of Korea on South East Asian Cinema...
- 2/1/2016
- ScreenDaily
This is the fifth year that Iffr has included an Art: Film platform within the CineMart as part of an ongoing attempt to bring art world professionals closer together with their colleagues from cinema.
The initiative has proved very successful, supporting the development of films by Fiona Tan (Tiger contender History’s Future), Phil Collins, Michelangelo Frammartino and others. Nonetheless, the same question is often asked by potential funders - what is it all about?
The artists want to attract “normal” film funding. To do so, they are sometimes asked to pitch or present their projects in a way they find simplistic and reductive. The funders, for their part, can sometimes seem baffled by the esoteric nature of the artists’ projects. Art: Film was designed to help break down the suspicions and misunderstandings between the two worlds.
This year, on Monday (Feb 1), two new projects are being showcased: The Notebooks by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (Lebanon...
The initiative has proved very successful, supporting the development of films by Fiona Tan (Tiger contender History’s Future), Phil Collins, Michelangelo Frammartino and others. Nonetheless, the same question is often asked by potential funders - what is it all about?
The artists want to attract “normal” film funding. To do so, they are sometimes asked to pitch or present their projects in a way they find simplistic and reductive. The funders, for their part, can sometimes seem baffled by the esoteric nature of the artists’ projects. Art: Film was designed to help break down the suspicions and misunderstandings between the two worlds.
This year, on Monday (Feb 1), two new projects are being showcased: The Notebooks by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (Lebanon...
- 1/31/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Thriller directed by Omer Fast acquired for international sales by The Match Factory.
The Match Factory has boarded international sales on Remainder, visual artist Omer Fast’s thriller now in pre-production.
Soda Pictures will distribute in the UK and Ireland; Piffl Medien has German rights.
Tom Sturridge is set to star in the story, adapted from Tom McCarthy’s novel, about a man who has to reconstruct his past out of lost memories; he gets a large financial settlement for an accident he can¹t remember without any wholly reliable witnesses.
Fast, who writes and directs, said the film is “an elliptical thriller about a person whose past catches up with him when he’s most vulnerable: In absolute control.”
The film will shoot for six weeks on location in London and Berlin this spring; post-production will be done in Hamburg.
Fast’s artworks are in permanent collections at Tate Modern and Lacma; his latest installation...
The Match Factory has boarded international sales on Remainder, visual artist Omer Fast’s thriller now in pre-production.
Soda Pictures will distribute in the UK and Ireland; Piffl Medien has German rights.
Tom Sturridge is set to star in the story, adapted from Tom McCarthy’s novel, about a man who has to reconstruct his past out of lost memories; he gets a large financial settlement for an accident he can¹t remember without any wholly reliable witnesses.
Fast, who writes and directs, said the film is “an elliptical thriller about a person whose past catches up with him when he’s most vulnerable: In absolute control.”
The film will shoot for six weeks on location in London and Berlin this spring; post-production will be done in Hamburg.
Fast’s artworks are in permanent collections at Tate Modern and Lacma; his latest installation...
- 2/11/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
He's played a stranded alien, a vampire cellist and a pretty PoW – but David Bowie rarely gets his due as an actor. Ryan Gilbey talks to the directors who know him best about an original, 'incandescent' talent
He hasn't performed in public for six years, or released an album in almost a decade, but there is a lot of David Bowie about. His music featured prominently in both the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Olympic Games: Danny Boyle included a shot of him playing a discombobulated alien in Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth; and the closing catwalk show played out to the sound of Bowie's Fashion (a big disappointment to those hoping for a rumoured live performance of Heroes). Even in his absence, Bowie eclipsed the stars who did turn up.
Next year, the Victoria and Albert museum will host an extensive exhibition of Bowie's costumes,...
He hasn't performed in public for six years, or released an album in almost a decade, but there is a lot of David Bowie about. His music featured prominently in both the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Olympic Games: Danny Boyle included a shot of him playing a discombobulated alien in Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth; and the closing catwalk show played out to the sound of Bowie's Fashion (a big disappointment to those hoping for a rumoured live performance of Heroes). Even in his absence, Bowie eclipsed the stars who did turn up.
Next year, the Victoria and Albert museum will host an extensive exhibition of Bowie's costumes,...
- 8/28/2012
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
David Bowie's film work, from a stranded alien for Nic Roeg to a reclusive inventor for Chris Nolan, has its own fascination. Ryan Gilbey looks at how he was always an actor before he started acting
He hasn't performed in public for six years, or released an album in almost a decade, but there is a lot of David Bowie about. His music featured prominently in both the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Olympic Games: Danny Boyle included a shot of him playing a discombobulated alien in Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth; and the closing catwalk show played out to the sound of Bowie's Fashion (a big disappointment to those hoping for a rumoured live performance of Heroes). Even in his absence, Bowie eclipsed the stars who turned up.
Next year, the Victoria and Albert museum will host an extensive exhibition of Bowie's costumes,...
He hasn't performed in public for six years, or released an album in almost a decade, but there is a lot of David Bowie about. His music featured prominently in both the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Olympic Games: Danny Boyle included a shot of him playing a discombobulated alien in Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth; and the closing catwalk show played out to the sound of Bowie's Fashion (a big disappointment to those hoping for a rumoured live performance of Heroes). Even in his absence, Bowie eclipsed the stars who turned up.
Next year, the Victoria and Albert museum will host an extensive exhibition of Bowie's costumes,...
- 8/27/2012
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
He's probably the most iconic recording artist of the last century, but David Bowie has also enjoyed an eclectic and impressive film career. Now a new festival celebrating this side of his work is scheduled to open in London.
It was conceived at the Toronto film festival in 2011. "I was at the HotDocs strand," says Tiger Lily Films' Natasha Dack, one of the directors. "Oli Harbottle was there. He's from Dogwoof. We were talking about ideas for festivals and I had Bowie in my head. We both knew he'd made a huge amount of films. It seemed bonkers but also a really good idea."
"We were both very excited about exploring the possibilities," Oli says. "I did some research and found that nothing similar had been done before, in the UK at least. We had a very rich selection of films to pick from."
It's hard to see how they managed to.
It was conceived at the Toronto film festival in 2011. "I was at the HotDocs strand," says Tiger Lily Films' Natasha Dack, one of the directors. "Oli Harbottle was there. He's from Dogwoof. We were talking about ideas for festivals and I had Bowie in my head. We both knew he'd made a huge amount of films. It seemed bonkers but also a really good idea."
"We were both very excited about exploring the possibilities," Oli says. "I did some research and found that nothing similar had been done before, in the UK at least. We had a very rich selection of films to pick from."
It's hard to see how they managed to.
- 8/8/2012
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Ica pays tribute to Bowie's golden years, and Nitin Sawhney scores Hitchcock's The Lodger
Bowie on celluloid
The first film festival dedicated to the on-screen appearances of David Bowie will take place at London's Ica at the end of August. Bowiefest will comprise three days of screenings, Q&As, talks and club nights - and lots of people dressed as their favourite era Bowie, no doubt. Films will include The Hunger, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Festival curator Natasha Dack tells me: "I can't believe no one's ever done this before, so we're thrilled to be the first and the Ica is just the perfect venue to capture Bowie's straddling of art forms, from performance to film and music."
The organisers are still awaiting a reaction from the man himself, although indications are that he has been made aware of it and is "flattered". Will he be attending?...
Bowie on celluloid
The first film festival dedicated to the on-screen appearances of David Bowie will take place at London's Ica at the end of August. Bowiefest will comprise three days of screenings, Q&As, talks and club nights - and lots of people dressed as their favourite era Bowie, no doubt. Films will include The Hunger, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Festival curator Natasha Dack tells me: "I can't believe no one's ever done this before, so we're thrilled to be the first and the Ica is just the perfect venue to capture Bowie's straddling of art forms, from performance to film and music."
The organisers are still awaiting a reaction from the man himself, although indications are that he has been made aware of it and is "flattered". Will he be attending?...
- 7/28/2012
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
A movie detailing a Jamaican love story is the biggest single winner in the latest cash handout from the Film Council's New Cinema Fund, the Council said Wednesday. The movie, entitled One Love and starring the late Bob Marley's son Ky-Mani Marley, secures £459,182 ($720,916) in funding from the New Cinema Fund, headed by Paul Trijbits. Currently in post-production, the latest cash handout means the film's total funding from the New Cinema Fund now totals £899,182 ($1.4 million). Directed by the team behind Dancehall Queen -- Rick Elgood and Don Letts -- One Love is produced by Yvonne Deutschman, Shelaagh Ferrell and Bjorn Eivind Aarskog. The New Cinema Fund is also pumping £375,000 (£588,750) into the pre-production of Stop History! The project tells the story of an ex-Kurdish freedom fighter living in London whose past comes back to haunt him when a violent ex-comrade arrives from Turkey to visit. The project is written and directed by Wayne Holloway and produced by Tigerlily Films' Natasha Dack. The third movie securing a cash handout from the fund is Amma Asante's directorial debut A Way of Life, which receives £360,000 ($565,200).
- 3/27/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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