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NewsCannes premiere ‘God’s Creatures’ picked up for UK-Ireland distribution
The film is directed by New York-based filmmakers Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer.
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NewsRed Sea Fund sets 36 grant winners, including Rwanda’s Joel Karekezi and Saudi Arabia’s Tawfik Alzaidi
Further projects come from Mehdi M. Barsaoui, Ameer Fakher Eldin, Haifaa Al-Mansour and Annemarie Jacir.
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NewsHBO Europe content boss Antony Root to retire
Exec has spent 11 years leading original programming for HBO Europe and HBO Max EMEA.
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NewsBBC’s Storyville confirms Emma Hindley as lead commissioner
Hindley was appointed as interim lead in August of last year.
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NewsPiers Haggard, champion of fellow UK directors, dies aged 83
Since the 70s Haggard also campaigned to secure rights and recognition for directors.
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News£14.7m allocated to Ashford film studio from UK government’s levelling up fund
The studio was first greenlit for development in 2020.
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NewsFlorian Zeller, Federica Sainte-Rose’s Blue Morning Pictures boards Sundance-bound ‘Fremont’
Newcomer and Afghan refugee Anaita Wali Zada stars.
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News‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ confirmed as highest global pandemic era hit, sixth highest of all time
James Cameron’s box office giant overtakes Spider-Man: No Way Home.
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NewsAGC Studios action thriller ‘The Silent Hour’ adds key cast ahead of late February start
Previously announced deals closed for UK, Germany, France, Latin America.
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News‘Black Panther 2’, ‘Ant-Man 3’ secure first Marvel releases in China since 2019
The last MCU title to receive a theatrical release in China was ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’.
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NewsIrish development body X-Pollinator launches Creator directors programme (exclusive)
Scheme is a week-long immersive directors’ residency for female and non-binary directors.
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NewsShowbox boards ‘Because I Hate Korea’ ahead of EFM (exclusive)
The drama stars Ko A-sung of Bong Joon Ho’s ‘The Host’ and ‘Snowpiercer’.
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NewsFirst trailer for Berlinale Generation premiere ‘Sea Sparkle’ (exclusive)
The family drama follows a daughter determined to prove a sea creature killed her father
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NewsBritish Urban Film Festival names first artistic director
The artistic director will assume responsibility for conceiving, developing, and implementing the artistic and commercial vision of BUFF.
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NewsFrench streamer Salto on brink of closure according to media reports
French SVOD platform has 800,000 subscribers.
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NewsReason8 boards world sales on Belgian drama ‘Skunk’ (exclusive)
‘Skunk’ is from writer-director Koen Mortier.
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NewsNaomi Ackie, Emma Mackey, Daryl McCormack among Bafta Rising Star 2023 nominees
Four of five nominees were previously named Screen Stars of Tomorrow.
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News’Under The Skin’ actor Adam Pearson among participants for UK’s NFTS, Disney shorts programme
The short-form initiative aims to build “a more inclusive film and television industry”.
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NewsUK government accused of ‘baffling’ failure to support creative industries
New report warns the UK risks being overtaken by other countries.
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NewsLevelK boards Rotterdam, Goteborg title ‘Four Little Adults’ (exclusive)
New film from Selma Vilhunen, who directed 2019 Berlinale Crystal Bear winner ‘Stupid Young Heart’.