All Features articles – Page 391
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FeaturesTerritory Focus: Gulf States
Browse Screen’s features on the Gulf States including an overview of the industry, distribution, production finance and the Abu Dhabi Media Summit.
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FeaturesUK distribution and exhibition
Browse Screen’s features on the major and independent UK distributors, multi-platform releases and exhibition.
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FeaturesRoger Hill, Flying Paper
In their film Flying Paper, political documentarian Roger Hill and co-director Nitin Sawhney travelled to the Kite Festival in Gaza in summer 2010 to shoot a world record kite-flying attempt.
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FeaturesBFI London Film Festival opening night: Captain Phillips
Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass attended the European premiere of their hijack thriller.
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FeaturesLFF 2013: London steers successful course
In her second year heading up the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 9-20), Clare Stewart tells Sarah Cooper about consolidation, competition and LFF’s place in the international calendar.
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FeaturesSet report: Bald Mountain
Brazilian film-maker Heitor Dhalia’s latest project is a modern-day gangster film set during a famous gold rush.
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FeaturesTokyo's show of support
As Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct 17-25) enters a new era, the focus will be on backing home-grown talent.
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FeaturesCharles Cohen & Daniel Battsek, Cohen Media Group
Cohen Media Group founder Charles Cohen and president Daniel Battsek talk about the care they give to prestige arthouse titles in both production and distribution.
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FeaturesThe VoD invasion
John Hazelton examines the rising international demand for entertainment libraries thanks to new distribution platforms across VoD and SVoD.
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FeaturesBFI fundraising gala Luminous
The BFI raised £250,000 for the BFI National Archive at its first fundraising gala, Luminous, in London.
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FeaturesVijay Singh, Fox Star Studios
Fox Star Studios is scaling up with in-house productions and a remake of a Hollywood film. Liz Shackleton spoke to CEO Vijay Singh.
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FeaturesAnup Singh, Qissa: The Tale Of A Lonely Ghost
The first film to shoot under the India-Germany co-production treaty, Anup Singh’s Qissa: The Tale Of A Lonely Ghost recently won the NETPAC award at the Toronto International Film Festival and is now screening in Busan’s A Window On Asian Cinema section.
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FeaturesGulf states: Collective spirit
For the first time, the Gulf States are coming together to promote themselves as a cohesive regional film hub. By Colin Brown
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FeaturesGulf states: Film-making at a crossroad
The Gulf continues to cement its reputation as a film-making hub, but the growing presence of big budget international shoots serves to highlight the lack of local production, says Colin Brown.
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FeaturesGulf states: Narrowing the Gulf
The Gulf may have taken Egypt’s place as Arab cinema’s financial powerhouse but the challenge remains to connect local audiences with home-grown releases, as Colin Brown reports.
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FeaturesUK distribution: Show time
After the rise of event cinema and the near completion of digitisation, the UK exhibition sector now needs to focus on increasing admissions, as Michael Rosser reports
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FeaturesUK distribution: Letter of intent
The current state of the UK’s virtual print fee negotiations is examined by Andreas Wiseman.
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FeaturesUK distribution: Independent spirit
The UK remains a challenging market for independent distributors, but the mood is one of cautious optimism, as Sarah Cooper discovers.
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FeaturesUK distribution: A date with VoD
Do ‘innovative’ VoD releases offer UK distributors a worthwhile revenue stream or are they just tinkering at the edges? Andreas Wiseman reports
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FeaturesUK distribution: Big hitters
The UK’s studio heads tell Wendy Mitchell about how they cut through the clutter in a crowded marketplace, whether huge blockbusters are too risky, and if theatrical windows will ever change.