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All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 27
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NewsScreen Flanders invests €2.5m in 15 film and TV projects
Projects to receive funding include Tim Mielants’ Second World War drama ’Will’
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NewsOscar hopeful ‘Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom’ charms international buyers (exclusive)
Films Boutique is handling international sales on the Bhutanese Oscar hopeful.
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NewsOnline Rotterdam 2022 reveals new opening film, full line-up
The original opener, Mijke de Jong’s Along The Way, has had to be switched for rights reasons.
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NewsIndustry pays tribute to Romaine Hart, doyenne of UK independent exhibition and distribution
Hart, who founded the “Screen On” cinema chain and distribution company Mainline Pictures, died on December 28
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NewsBelgian government backtracks on cinema closures
Belgium’s cinemas have reopened after the government scrapped new Covid measures
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Features‘The Duke’ team on making Roger Michell’s final film: “he was just a brilliant director, massively imaginative"
The writers and producers behind real-life art-heist tale The Duke tell Screen about the making of what would be director Roger Michell’s final feature.
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NewsAround 80 Belgian cinemas to stay open in defiance of Covid rules ordering them to close
Protests against the cultural shutdown are growing in Belgium
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NewsAlexander Rodnyansky’s AR Content makes key appointment to international team (exclusive)
Katerina Pshenitsyna is joining from Central Partnership in a big shake-up of the Russian scene.
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NewsBelgium to shutter cinemas for five weeks from December 26
Ostend Film Festival will be forced to change its original dates
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NewsRotterdam film festival moves online for 2022
Organisers are working quickly to create a digital event.
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FeaturesAsghar Farhadi on screening his films in Iran and a third Oscar bid with ’A Hero’
”My first aim is always to show my films in my country.”
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Features“It was extremely painful to write, but joyful to shoot,” says director Paolo Sorrentino of ‘The Hand Of God’
Screen talks to Paolo Sorrentino and key collaborators about realising a nostalgic vision.
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NewsUK screen tax reliefs generated £3.6bn in revenue in 2019, according to BFI report
The film tax relief alone generated £1.89bn in tax revenue
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NewsFilms Boutique picks up Sundance World Cinema title ‘Gentle’ (exclusive)
The female bodybuilding drama is co-directed by two rising Hungarian talents.
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NewsRotterdam forced to delay decision on physical event but industry programme moves online
Festival organisers announced programme details including a focus on US filmmaker Amanda Kramer.
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FeaturesIn conversation: Sebastian Meise and Franz Rogowski on the "unbelievable" true story behind ‘Great Freedom’
Director Meise had lead actor Rogowski in mind when writing ’Great Freedom’. The two men talk about crash dieting, Covid interruptions and Germany’s notorious Paragraph 175 law.
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NewsUK cinemas had record-breaking October, says UKCA head Phil Clapp
But the UK exhibition sector has still taken a £2bn hit during Covid
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NewsBFI confirms renewal of UK Global Screen Fund
BFI chief executive Ben Roberts spoke this morning at Westminster Media Forum policy conference on the future of British film.
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NewsBelgium’s Belga Film Fund looking for international projects in which to invest €30m
International projects need to spend part of their budget in Belgium.
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NewsSnow leopard doc ‘The Velvet Queen’ secures UK-Ireland deal (exclusive)
It follows photographer and explorer Munier and writer Sylvain Tesson as they attempt to track down elusive snow leopards in the heart of the Tibetan highlands.