All Features articles – Page 376
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FeaturesShort Cuts
Funding may be scarce in the UK, but as public bodies formulate their talent development plans, Screen discovers that the appetite and ambition for short film-making is greater than ever.
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FeaturesFlying Blind
Producer Alison Sterling, director Kasia Klimkiewicz and actress Helen McCrory talk about working on Bristol based love story/political thriller Flying Blind, the third film to come out of South West Screen’s microbudget scheme iFeatures.
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FeaturesAmerican Film Festival, Wroclaw
The festival also included the inaugural Gotham In Progress industry event.
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FeaturesTwilight breaks new ground in UK after $22m (£13.9m) launch
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn posts franchise best $22m (£13.9m) opening in UK from only three days.
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FeaturesMannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival, Germany
Winners at the 60th edition of the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (November 10-20).
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FeaturesStockholm International Film Festival Awards Gala, Sweden
Winners and attendees at the Stockholm International Film Festival Awards Gala hosted on November 19. The festival ran November 9-20.
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FeaturesIndian audiences catch indie fever
The local box-office success of a number of non-mainstream Indian films has prompted financiers to take note. Now the challenge is to win over distributors.
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FeaturesGotham In Progress organisers
This year marks the first Gotham In Progress, a new industry initiative of New York and Paris-based Black Rabbit Films and New Horizons Association (which runs the New Horizons International Film Festival and the American Film Festival).The initiative is a showcase for US indies that are in the final stages ...
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FeaturesMads Brugger, director of The Ambassador
Danish journalist/filmmaker Brugger goes undercover with a diplomatic passport to expose corruption in the Central African Republic.
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FeaturesMary McGuckian and Larry Mullen Jr
Elnaz Toussi caught up with McGuckian and Mullen Jr to chat about their collaboration on the The Man On The Train, which Tribeca Film has just released on VOD in the US.
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FeaturesImmortals pips Arthur Christmas at UK box office
Immortals and Arthur Christmas lead a number of underwhelming debuts at the UK box office.
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FeaturesInternational Film Festival Bratislava, Slovakia
Winners and attendees at the 13th edition of the International Film Festival Bratislava (Nov 4-9) in Bratislava, Slovakia
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FeaturesThessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece
Winners and attendees at the 52nd annual Thessaloniki International Film Festival (November 4-13).
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FeaturesHot projects on Screenbase
Kristin Scott Thomas, Matt Dillon and Julia Stiles are among the cast for Mike Figgis upcoming feature Seconds Of Pleasure, whilst Samantha Morton has taken on the lead in thriller The Mulo.
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FeaturesThe Healer
Brussels born, Italian raised director Giorgio Serafini is currently in post production on his supernatural thriller which shot in the woods of North Carolina
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FeaturesThe £10m question
Will changes to the EIS scheme help lure wealthy individuals back into UK film financing?
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FeaturesFilmfestival Cottbus, Germany
The 21st edition of the Filmfestival Cottbus, the Festival of East European Cinema, ran November 1-6 in Cottbus, Germany
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FeaturesStockholm International Film Festival Gala, Sweden
The 22nd Stockholm International Film Festival runs 9–20 November. This year’s gala was held at the Skandia theatre.
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FeaturesThe one to watch
Fuelled by a multiplex boom, the UAE box office is much bigger than previously believed. But market peculiarities and demographic quirks mean not all films perform as elsewhere.
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FeaturesCanada's one-stop shop
Montreal-based Mediabiz — now reorganised into production arm Mediamax and financial products division Mediabiz Capital — is making an aggressive play in the international film business. Mike Goodridge spoke to group CEO Karine Martin