All BFI articles – Page 7
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NewsBFI’s Sustainable Screen Fund awards to £587k to Bafta albert and Julie’s Bicycle
Keir Powell-Lewis appointed as BFI’s head of head of environmental sustainability
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NewsMia Bays, Molly Manning Walker, Anthony Andrews join line-up for Cannes UK Pavilion 2023
Revised BFI Filmmaking Fund and UK tax credits system up for discussion in UK Pavilion events programme.
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NewsUK-Ireland releases hit nine-year high in Q1 2023 but cinema admissions plummet
The BFI has issued statistics on box office and production activity for the first quarter of 2023.
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NewsNaqqash Khalid’s ‘In Camera’ scores world sales deal, releases first look (exclusive)
Screen Stars Nabhaan Rizwan, Amir El-Masry star alongside Rory Fleck Byrne.
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NewsBFI names Skills Clusters partners, reveals head of National Lottery Skills programmes
Screen Yorkshire, Film London, Screen Scotland and Northern Ireland Screen are among the six partner organisations to receive National Lottery funding.
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NewsFilm and TV Production Restart scheme boosted UK economy by £2.3bn
More than 100,000 jobs for cast and crew were supported and 48,500 full-time jobs were created by the scheme.
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NewsReclaim The Frame, Home, Watershed among recipients of BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund
Seventeen projects are to receive awards, totalling £6.5m.
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NewsBFI Distribution acquires London Film Festival documentary ‘Name Me Lawand’ (exclusive)
The film will have its international premiere at Hot Docs in May.
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NewsFormer Amazon exec Georgia Brown to lead UK Production Skills Task Force for screen sector
Over 20 senior representatives from all the major broadcasters, studios and streamers will join the task force.
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NewsMichael Blyth to step down as senior programmer for BFI London Film Festival, Flare
Programmer has been involved with the festivals for 17 years.
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NewsUK producers “cautiously optimistic” about aspects of BFI Filmmaking Fund but worried about fall in overall funding
“Ouch,” said one UK independent producer.
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News“No one owns the challenge, no one owns the solution”: ScreenSkills, BFI address changes to public funding for skills
Skills clusters are being created around the UK.
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NewsBFI director Mia Bays digs into detail on revised Filmmaking Fund: “Whatever you apply with, it’s an even playing field”
Four new funds have been created covering development and production support.
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NewsRevamped BFI Filmmaking Fund unveils details of four new production and development funds
The BFI is investing £36.6m of National Lottery funding in fiction feature support over three years.
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NewsKristy Matheson appointed BFI London Film Festival director
Matheson will run LFF and BFI Flare in her role as festivals director.
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NewsBFI earmarks £6m for documentary filmmaking, reappoints Doc Society as funding partner
The £6m of National Lottery funds will be invested over three years.
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NewsBFI to invest £14m in programmes for UK schoolchildren as part of ambitious education strategy
It forms part of the BFI’s Screen Culture 2033 strategy.
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NewsSundance winner ‘The Stroll’ to open BFI Flare festival, ‘Drifter’ to close
The LGBTQIA+ festival runs March 15-25.
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NewsUK film and high-end TV production spend hits £6.3bn record in 2022, but indie film spend down 31%
Inward investment on film and HETV production up 5.7% to £5.4bn.
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NewsBFI unveils £15.2m funding to UK-wide partners to deliver audience, talent and education programmes
The money will be used to support the BFI’s FAN, Network and Film Academy Plus programmes.