Supporting the U.K. animation industry is one of the key priorities for the recently launched £7 million ($9.77 million) U.K. Global Screen Fund (UKGSF), which is being administered by the British Film Institute. Each of the three key funding strands of the UKGSF – international business development, co-production investment, and international … [Read more...]
Local film producer tipped for the top
Lambeth-based film producer Yaw Basoah, who is mentored by Small Axe director Sir Steve McQueen, has been named as a Film London Lodestar for 2021. Lodestars is an annual list noting innovative London creators and practitioners in film, TV and games to watch. They are selected from hundreds of people. Yaw Basoah established Dark Pictures to … [Read more...]
BFI appoints inaugural head of UK Global Screen Fund
The British Film Institute (BFI) has appointed former All3Media and Endemol Shine executive Denitsa Yordanova as head of the recently-launched UK Global Screen Fund. Starting on July 12, Yordanova will lead the promotion, delivery and growth of the Fund, which is operating initially on a one-year pilot. She will report to BFI director of … [Read more...]
‘Most significant’ Fens archive footage in years
Thousands of feet of rediscovered film footage shot during the 1970s testing of the Hovertrain between Earith and Sutton will feature in a new documentary. Source: https://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/ … [Read more...]
Soho Theatre Is Reinventing Walthamstow’s Legendary Art Deco Cinema
A transformation is underway at the Walthamstow Granada. This Grade II listed former cinema — once a favourite haunt of Alfred Hitchcock — is getting a new lease of life as a second venue for Soho Theatre. Source: https://londonist.com/london/theatre-and-arts/ … [Read more...]
The paradoxes and platitudes of Salman Rushdie
In a new collection of essays, the author reveals the difficulty of reconciling his belief in multiplicity and ambiguity with a kind of rational absolutism. Source: https://www.newstatesman.com/salman-rushdie-languages-of-truth-review … [Read more...]
