All articles by Sarah Cooper – Page 86
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NewsDe Menezes film sees strong opening in Brazil
Henrique Goldman’s Jean Charles has taken $416,121 in its opening weekend in Brazil, catapulting it into Screen’s International top 40 chart, despite only opening in the one territory.
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NewsEM Media appoints Lisa Opie as chair
Lisa Opie, the former managing director of content at UK broadcaster Five, has taken over as chair of regional screen agency EM Media.
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NewsNotting Hill Film Festival opens with Bananaz, Telstar
The Notting Hill Film Festival will kick off on July 10 with the Gorrillaz docu-film Bananaz, directed by Ceri Levy, followed by Nick Moran’s directorial debut Telstar.
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NewsDuncan Jones’ Moon takes top prize at Edinburgh
Duncan Jones’ debut feature Moon has scooped the Michael Powell Award for the Best New British Feature at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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NewsEM Media adds Hip Hop feature doc to its slate
EM Media, the UK’s regional screen agency based in the East Midlands, announced a new addition to its slate today at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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NewsUKFC and Nesta call on industry to exploit digital world
The UK Film Council and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is calling on the film industry to expand digital distribution, seek new sources of funding and work with online audiences as publishers not just viewers, as part of series of findings from their digital innovation ...
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NewsProducer Stephen Woolley named as patron of EIFF Directors Lab
Producer Stephen Woolley has been named as patron of the Directors Lab at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) for the second year running.
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NewsActress Meera Syal to host Trailblazers masterclass at EIFF
Meera Syal, the actress and comedienne, will host a masterclass at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) as part of Skillset’s Trailblazers scheme.
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NewsJoe Wright to head up Edinburgh’s Michael Powell jury
Atonement and Pride And Prejudice director Joe Wright has been named as president of the Michael Powell jury for best British film at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF).
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FeaturesCall of the Roman empire
Neil Marshall’s historical action thriller Centurion is the first in a wave of Romans-on-the-rampage projects to go into production. Sarah Cooper visits the set.
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Meet the new Dirty Harry
On a grey February morning at Elstree film studios just outside London, the crew on the set of UK film Harry Brown are gearing up for a particularly harrowing scene. Michael Caine, on the other hand, is doing John Wayne impressions. It is appropriate, given the film is dubbed an ...
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Film London pushes locations to review costs
Film London has started talks with the city’s locations and boroughs as part of a move to make the capital cheaper and more accessible to productions.
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Q&A with Take 12 partner Huge Entertainment
Q&A with Morgan Holt from Huge EntertainmentHuge Entertainment is one of Take 12's innovation partners, working with VOD AlmightyWhat do you think of the concept of VOD Almighty'There's definitely a need for an editorial film proposition and they have an already -established network of country agents to help them achieve ...
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Take 12: Q&A with Christopher Figg and Kirsty Peart of VOD Almighty
Q&A with Christopher Figg and Kirsty Peart of VOD AlmightyHow did VOD Almighty come about' Peart: Time and time again, I would meet producers whose films were festival hits but they never make it to the UK. We realised that there was a market for a distribution method that could ...
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NewsVOD Almighty's global VOD plans
Nesta/UKFC digital innovation programme - In part 3 we talk to VOD Almighty
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UK producers Rachel Robey and Al Clark find a better place
A film production course in Nottingham in 1998 proved serendipitous for Rachel Robey and Alastair Clark. They met there, fell in love, got married and set up a production company called Wellington Films.Robey and Clark made a name for themselves in 2006 with Paul Andrew Williams' low-budget thriller London To ...
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Minority report: training in the UK
Minority training in the UKThe three 'b's in B3 Media stand for 'beats, bytes and the big screen'. The London-based organisation works to bring together multicultural film-makers and the mainstream UK film industry. B3's FeatureLab is one of a handful of UK initiatives to target film-makers from black and ethnic ...
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Minority report: how training is opening up the film industry
Film is such a powerful and important medium and it has a huge impact on society. It can't be healthy to have such an imbalance and I can't actually believe it's still as extreme as it is,' says Rachel Millward, founder of UK organisation Birds Eye View (BEV), which supports ...
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Q & A with Revolver's managing director Justin Marciano
Why did you want to get involved with the programme' Justin: It was an instantly interesting prospect for us. There is only one future and that is digital. We have really tried to experiment ourselves, feel in the dark, off our own backs. For us as a private company, we ...
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NewsTake 12: monetising digital - Justin Marciano of Revolver
Nesta/UKFC digital innovation programme - Part 2: Revolver EntertainmentRevolver Entertainment’s managing director Justin Marciano