‘The Voice’ will enable directors to create a proof-of-concept.
New projects by Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan and Maudie filmmaker Aisling Walsh are among 27 chosen for the inaugural edition of The Voice, Screen Ireland’s development scheme for emerging and established directors.
Each director is eligible for up to €30,000 in funding across a maximum of two projects.
Finnegan has received funding for his TV drama Strange Coast. His second feature Vivarium debuted at Cannes 2019 in Critics’ Week, winning a distribution prize.
Walsh is receiving support for her as-yet-untitled feature film project about US photojournalist Dorothea Lange. The director’s fourth feature Maudie,...
New projects by Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan and Maudie filmmaker Aisling Walsh are among 27 chosen for the inaugural edition of The Voice, Screen Ireland’s development scheme for emerging and established directors.
Each director is eligible for up to €30,000 in funding across a maximum of two projects.
Finnegan has received funding for his TV drama Strange Coast. His second feature Vivarium debuted at Cannes 2019 in Critics’ Week, winning a distribution prize.
Walsh is receiving support for her as-yet-untitled feature film project about US photojournalist Dorothea Lange. The director’s fourth feature Maudie,...
- 9/1/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Cph:dox, the Danish documentary film festival, has cancelled its opening night gala after Denmark’s government responded to the growing spread of coronavirus by asking organizers to pull events featuring more than 1,000 people. The event had been due to kick off with a screening of Kenneth Sorento’s The Fight For Greenland. The festival will otherwise go ahead as planned, with heightened hygiene procedures, unless the government introduces more severe measures to combat Covid-19, organizers said in a statement today.
This year’s Dublin International Film Festival closed over the weekend, with John Connors’ debut feature documentary Endless Sunshine On A Cloudy Day scooping the audience award. Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself, which premiered at Sundance, closed the festival as a gala screening and also took the Human Rights Film Award. Actor Liam Cunningham received the inaugural Lifetime Contribution Award. Elsewhere, Milje Li’s Confucian Dream won in the Documentary Competition,...
This year’s Dublin International Film Festival closed over the weekend, with John Connors’ debut feature documentary Endless Sunshine On A Cloudy Day scooping the audience award. Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself, which premiered at Sundance, closed the festival as a gala screening and also took the Human Rights Film Award. Actor Liam Cunningham received the inaugural Lifetime Contribution Award. Elsewhere, Milje Li’s Confucian Dream won in the Documentary Competition,...
- 3/9/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The films will be made by all-female lead creators.
Social networking app Bumble has selected five shorts to fund through its £100,000 Female Film Force (Fff) initiative for 2019.
The programme, which launched last year to ‘encourage women to make the first move, to stand up and tell their stories’, returns in an expanded international format. It has chosen two projects from the UK, and one each from France, Germany and Ireland. Each will receive £20,000 towards production costs.
From the UK are Ma’am by writer-director Joy Wilkinson and Sunita, co-written by Joan Iyiola and Chibundu Onuzo; Claire Byrne represents Ireland with Ascending Grace,...
Social networking app Bumble has selected five shorts to fund through its £100,000 Female Film Force (Fff) initiative for 2019.
The programme, which launched last year to ‘encourage women to make the first move, to stand up and tell their stories’, returns in an expanded international format. It has chosen two projects from the UK, and one each from France, Germany and Ireland. Each will receive £20,000 towards production costs.
From the UK are Ma’am by writer-director Joy Wilkinson and Sunita, co-written by Joan Iyiola and Chibundu Onuzo; Claire Byrne represents Ireland with Ascending Grace,...
- 6/12/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
A dystoptian thriller about octogenarian eradication, a period drama set during the Battle of Waterloo and a documentary about Japan’s women of the sea are three of the films that are to be funded by dating app Bumble as it moves into the original content game.
The company, which in 2011 launched the eponymous app that only permits women to start a chat with their male matches, has chosen the five projects that it will fund as part of The Female Force. The fund offers filmmakers £20,000 to make a short film, which will be delivered in January 2019.
Ama Divers from Georgina Yukiko Donovan and Yoko Ishitani; A Battle in Waterloo from Emma Moffat, Tilly Coulson and Anna Hargreaves; Hatima from Oluwaseun ‘Shey’ Osibowale, Damilola Babalola, Louise Ogunnaike and Funke Alafiatayo; Pat from Emma Wall, Jo Halpin and Claire Byrne and The Leaving Party are the chosen films. Full details below.
The company, which in 2011 launched the eponymous app that only permits women to start a chat with their male matches, has chosen the five projects that it will fund as part of The Female Force. The fund offers filmmakers £20,000 to make a short film, which will be delivered in January 2019.
Ama Divers from Georgina Yukiko Donovan and Yoko Ishitani; A Battle in Waterloo from Emma Moffat, Tilly Coulson and Anna Hargreaves; Hatima from Oluwaseun ‘Shey’ Osibowale, Damilola Babalola, Louise Ogunnaike and Funke Alafiatayo; Pat from Emma Wall, Jo Halpin and Claire Byrne and The Leaving Party are the chosen films. Full details below.
- 8/7/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Dating app Bumble is getting closer to making its mark in the content game after narrowing down the shortlist for its female film fund.
The company, which runs the eponymous dating app that only permits women to start a chat with their male matches, launched The Female Force, offering five filmmakers £20,000 to make a short film, in May.
It has narrowed this down to ten filmmakers with five of them set to be revealed in August, with their films launching in January. The filmmakers are: Alexandra Blue, Christine Hartland, Daisy Stenham, Emma Moffat, Emma Wall, Georgina Yukiko Donovan, Helena Sutcliffe, Karen Turner, Oluwaseun ‘Shey’ Osibowale and Pratyusha Gupta (projects below).
The project is being overseen by stars including Guardians of the Galaxy and Elementary star Ophelia Lovibond and Black Mirror star Georgina Campbell, who is currently starring in Syfy’s DC Comics series Krypton, as well as radio presenter Edith Bowman,...
The company, which runs the eponymous dating app that only permits women to start a chat with their male matches, launched The Female Force, offering five filmmakers £20,000 to make a short film, in May.
It has narrowed this down to ten filmmakers with five of them set to be revealed in August, with their films launching in January. The filmmakers are: Alexandra Blue, Christine Hartland, Daisy Stenham, Emma Moffat, Emma Wall, Georgina Yukiko Donovan, Helena Sutcliffe, Karen Turner, Oluwaseun ‘Shey’ Osibowale and Pratyusha Gupta (projects below).
The project is being overseen by stars including Guardians of the Galaxy and Elementary star Ophelia Lovibond and Black Mirror star Georgina Campbell, who is currently starring in Syfy’s DC Comics series Krypton, as well as radio presenter Edith Bowman,...
- 7/12/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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