Four films, including the latest projects from Amma Asante, Mike Leigh and Lynne Ramsay, were granted more than £1m in production funding in 2016.
Four films received more than £1m in production funding through the BFI Film Fund this year, with Mike Leigh’s anticipated Peterloo drama leading the way with an award of £1.46m.
The BFI backed around 30 projects with production funding up until December 15. Since launching the BFI Film Fund six years ago, the organisation’s biggest single production grant remains the £2m awarded to Aardman and Studiocanal’s animation Early Man in 2015.
The ten biggest awards of 2016:
1. Peterloo (£1,461,000)
Mike Leigh’s Peterloo massacre drama is set to depict the protest of more than 60,000 people for parliamentary reform in 1819 and the death of 15 protesters who were charged down by British cavalry troops. Dick Pope, the director’s frequent collaborator, will be the cinematographer for the film, while Georgina Lowe will be executive producer after performing...
Four films received more than £1m in production funding through the BFI Film Fund this year, with Mike Leigh’s anticipated Peterloo drama leading the way with an award of £1.46m.
The BFI backed around 30 projects with production funding up until December 15. Since launching the BFI Film Fund six years ago, the organisation’s biggest single production grant remains the £2m awarded to Aardman and Studiocanal’s animation Early Man in 2015.
The ten biggest awards of 2016:
1. Peterloo (£1,461,000)
Mike Leigh’s Peterloo massacre drama is set to depict the protest of more than 60,000 people for parliamentary reform in 1819 and the death of 15 protesters who were charged down by British cavalry troops. Dick Pope, the director’s frequent collaborator, will be the cinematographer for the film, while Georgina Lowe will be executive producer after performing...
- 12/28/2016
- ScreenDaily
Nearly 60 international and Canadian producers will head to the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s (Omdc) annual International Financing Forum in Toronto.
The 10th anniversary edition of Omdc’s International Financing Forum (Iff), a feature co-financing market for English-language projects, will run Sept 13-14 during Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
The projects include Drama, the third feature to be directed by Oscar-winning Us actress Helen Hunt, written by Justin W. Lo (‘Mistresses’).
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The two-day event includes one-on-one meetings, an industry panel discussion, roundtable meetings, a networking luncheon, and a producers’ opening night networking reception.
Iff partners include Telefilm Canada, UK Trade and Investment (Ukti) and new sponsor Canadian Media Producers Association (Cmpa).
More than 750 meetings will be scheduled for the 37 producer teams (20 Canadian projects and 17 international projects).
In total, 56 producers have been selected to participate in the programme from countries including: Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Spain, Uganda...
The 10th anniversary edition of Omdc’s International Financing Forum (Iff), a feature co-financing market for English-language projects, will run Sept 13-14 during Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
The projects include Drama, the third feature to be directed by Oscar-winning Us actress Helen Hunt, written by Justin W. Lo (‘Mistresses’).
Scroll down for more projects
The two-day event includes one-on-one meetings, an industry panel discussion, roundtable meetings, a networking luncheon, and a producers’ opening night networking reception.
Iff partners include Telefilm Canada, UK Trade and Investment (Ukti) and new sponsor Canadian Media Producers Association (Cmpa).
More than 750 meetings will be scheduled for the 37 producer teams (20 Canadian projects and 17 international projects).
In total, 56 producers have been selected to participate in the programme from countries including: Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Spain, Uganda...
- 9/1/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
An Oxford law graduate who was arrested during the 2011 riots in London, has made a documentary that challenges the depiction of the rioters as mindless criminals
Salim Ormanli speaks calmly andquietly to the camera: "I was thinking, shit, man, I just want to wake up. I hope this is a dream. I hope I got hit on the head or something in the riots … But it was real." The 23-year-old Londoner's candid account of the shock and hardship of being in prison following the summer riots of 2011 is one of many that have emerged in the wake of the unrest that spread across the country a year and a half ago.
This time the interview is unusual because it is for a documentary made by a fellow arrestee, Fahim Alam , who spent six weeks in prison on remand and a further six months on an electronic tag after being wrongly...
Salim Ormanli speaks calmly andquietly to the camera: "I was thinking, shit, man, I just want to wake up. I hope this is a dream. I hope I got hit on the head or something in the riots … But it was real." The 23-year-old Londoner's candid account of the shock and hardship of being in prison following the summer riots of 2011 is one of many that have emerged in the wake of the unrest that spread across the country a year and a half ago.
This time the interview is unusual because it is for a documentary made by a fellow arrestee, Fahim Alam , who spent six weeks in prison on remand and a further six months on an electronic tag after being wrongly...
- 3/13/2013
- by Mary O'Hara
- The Guardian - Film News
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