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NewsBFI re-opens Creative Challenge Fund with targeted focus on independent producers
Exclusive: The fund will invest a further £1.7m before March 2026, and is now open on a rolling basis.
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NewsCannes La Residence programme selects six writer-directors for 2025 edition
Participants include Hungary’s Flora Anna Buda, Brazil’s Rodrigo Ribeyro.
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NewsMounia Akl, Anna Hints, Micah Magee selected for TorinoFilmLab’s ScriptLab 2025
This year’s edition features 13 women, seven men and two non-binary participants
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News‘Highways Of Hope’, ‘Bugboy’ impress industry at Thessaloniki’s Agora platform
Agora is the industry strand of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.
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NewsTorinoFilmLab unveils line-up for 2025 comedy development programme
ComedyLab was launched last year as an annual programme to develop feature film comedies.
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FeaturesSundance, Venice, Locarno programmers heading to Meeting Point Vilnius for Lithuania showcase
MPV is hosting a works in progress showcase of 21 projects from Lithuania and the Baltic region .
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NewsNewgrange Pictures developing Irish drug loophole comedy ‘Pillgate’ (exclusive)
John Morton is writing the script based on a temporary decriminalisation of Class A drugs in Ireland.
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NewsPalestinian sci-fi ‘In Memory Of Times To Come’ among Qumra 2025 projects
49 projects include 27 features, plus TV, web series and shorts.
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Features“European animation is a vibrant industry,” says Cartoon Movie’s Annick Maes
Projects being pitched include Will Sharpe’s ‘Absolute Surrender’.
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NewsWerner Herzog’s first animated feature ‘The Twilight World’ among line up for Cartoon Movie 2025
Cartoon Movie is Europe’s leading co-production and pitching event.
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NewsLess Is More selects 16 projects including UK title ‘Drifters’ (exclusive)
18 writers are working across the 16 projects, including participants from Ireland, Estonia and Russia.
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News‘The Wind In The Willows’ animated feature adaptation blows into Scotland (exclusive)
The feature will include new female characters that are not in the book.
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NewsHuang Ji, Qiu Jiongjiong, Reza Rahadian projects among HAF 2025 WIP selection
Stars including Fan Bingbing, Lee Kang-Sheng and Mugi Kadowaki are set to appear in the upcoming films.
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NewsCPH:Forum selects new projects from ‘Notes on Blindness’, ‘Honeyland’ directors
‘Flee’ producer Monica Hellstrom, director Mark Cousins will also present projects.
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NewsKore-eda project among HAF 2025 development selection; adds animation section
Further producers attached to the in-development projects include Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Sylvie Pialat, Lee Sinje, Stanley Kwan and Yeh Ju-Feng.
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NewsBerlinale book-to-screen pitches include graphic novel ‘Impenetrable’ about sexual dysfunction
Several genre titles among the 10 books selected for their film potential.
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NewsLes Arcs industry guests select buzzy projects
Norwegian project ‘Solomamma’, Kosovan story ‘Hatixhe And Shaban’ and Germany’s ‘Babette’ draw praise.
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NewsUK development fund The Uncertain Kingdom to end
The November 2024 funding round will be awarded as planned in the new year.
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NewsScreen Scotland sets aside £1.2m for four talent development initiatives
The initiatives are aimed at short films and those on the cusp of a first feature.
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NewsFilm4-backed Genre Feature Lab selects three projects from Northern creatives (exclusive)
Bafta-winning producers Ivana Mackinnon, Emily Leo lead the Lab.
