All articles by Mike Goodridge – Page 12
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FeaturesAmanda Nevill, director of BFI
The BFI has had budgetary setbacks and its National Film Centre plan was shelved by the new government, but the organisation has reconnected with audiences and there are bright prospects for the future.
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CommentProtecting Inward Investment
A new proposal to make the UK tax credit recoupable seems to ignore the fact that virtually every other country in the world is lining up to steal big productions away from the UK.
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FeaturesFestival Scope
An online service is looking to help rights holders and festivals to take their films to a wider industry viewing base.
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NewsOMDC selects 39 projects for fifth annual Financing Forum
New projects from Christopher Smith, Rowan Woods, Keith Gordon, Richie Mehta in lineup
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CommentUK government should direct Lottery funds to arthouse film
Commercial UK cinema should live or die on the open market both in financing and distribution, but artistic cinema needs government support.
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CommentRedistributing the wealth
With new titles increasingly being squeezed into the schedules of the four major festivals, is it time that sales agents took a punt on other festivals, like Locarno?
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FeaturesBrazil blooms
Screen editor Mike Goodridge introduces Elaine Guerini’s territory focus exploring the production and distribution scene in Brazil.
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Scenes from Bergman Week
The seventh Bergman Week offered guests unprecedented access to the legendary film director’s home and screening theatre — which have found a new lease of life as an artists’ retreat. Screen editor Mike Goodridge reports.
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CommentLearning from the UKFC backlash
UK Film Council naysayers are having a field day in the wake of the organisation’s death sentence, and, bitchiness aside, they cannot be ignored.
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NewsUKFC: Tim Bevan talks next steps for UK industry
UKFC heads Tim Bevan and John Woodward to meet with government ministers Jeremy Hunt and Ed Vaizey this afternoon to discuss the future of tax credit and Lottery funding.
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NewsScreen Opinion: Black day for UK film
Screen editor Mike Goodridge argues that the British government’s proposed abolition of the UK Film Council is a major betrayal to film-makers, the industry and the medium of film.