Andrew Cumming’s Stone Age thriller Out Of Darkness leads the film nominations for the 2024 Bafta Scotland Awards, nominated in three categories including best feature film.
The film, which follows a gang of early humans who suspect a malevolent being is hunting them down, also received nominations for actor film for Kit Young, and actress film for Safia Oakley-Green.
Scroll down for the full list of nominees
Out Of Darkness premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2022, before a UK-Ireland release in February this year by Signature Entertainment under the title The Origin.
Cumming, writer Ruth Greenberg and Oakley-Green...
The film, which follows a gang of early humans who suspect a malevolent being is hunting them down, also received nominations for actor film for Kit Young, and actress film for Safia Oakley-Green.
Scroll down for the full list of nominees
Out Of Darkness premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2022, before a UK-Ireland release in February this year by Signature Entertainment under the title The Origin.
Cumming, writer Ruth Greenberg and Oakley-Green...
- 10/2/2024
- ScreenDaily
Daniel Gordon’s Strike: An Uncivil War, the story of the most violent confrontation between miners and police during the UK’s 1984 miners’ strike, has been acquired by Metfilm Distribution for theatrical release in the UK and Ireland.
The documentary is one of two to be produced via Embankment Films’ unscripted content division set up by the UK sales and production outfit in March 2023.
The second is Riccardo Servini’s Dwarf Story, commissioned by UK broadcaster ITV. The film explores the so-called ‘miracle’ drug that promises to be a potentially ground-breaking treatment for dwarfism,Vosoritide. It focuses on three young people from the US,...
The documentary is one of two to be produced via Embankment Films’ unscripted content division set up by the UK sales and production outfit in March 2023.
The second is Riccardo Servini’s Dwarf Story, commissioned by UK broadcaster ITV. The film explores the so-called ‘miracle’ drug that promises to be a potentially ground-breaking treatment for dwarfism,Vosoritide. It focuses on three young people from the US,...
- 3/28/2024
- ScreenDaily
“We’re investing in highly intelligent young future leaders,” said Embankment’s Tim Haslam.
London-based production, finance and sales outfit Embankment Films has expanded its team with the appointment of director of acquisitions and production Archie Faulks; acquisitions, production and distribution executive Bianca Fabbri; and international sales and marketing executive Clare Harris.
Faulks and Fabbri will head up Embankment’s scripted production, development and acquisitions team alongside producer Kevin Loader, while working closely with the company’s unscripted production team.
Embankment’s slate includes Sophie Hyde’s upcoming period piece An Ideal Wife, starring Emilia Clarke and Hope Dickson Leach’s biopic Making Noise,...
London-based production, finance and sales outfit Embankment Films has expanded its team with the appointment of director of acquisitions and production Archie Faulks; acquisitions, production and distribution executive Bianca Fabbri; and international sales and marketing executive Clare Harris.
Faulks and Fabbri will head up Embankment’s scripted production, development and acquisitions team alongside producer Kevin Loader, while working closely with the company’s unscripted production team.
Embankment’s slate includes Sophie Hyde’s upcoming period piece An Ideal Wife, starring Emilia Clarke and Hope Dickson Leach’s biopic Making Noise,...
- 1/16/2024
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Robey will start in her role in January 2024.
Rachel Robey, producer at UK company Wellington Films, is to join the the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts) as head of producing.
Robey will start in the role in January 2024. Her role will involve leading the producing department, overseeing the production of the school’s films, as well as guiding students on the Producing degrees as they learn project development and financing skills.
She takes over from Chris Auty, who left the Nfts in September to become CEO at the London Film School.
Robey will continue working at Wellington Films in a key role,...
Rachel Robey, producer at UK company Wellington Films, is to join the the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts) as head of producing.
Robey will start in the role in January 2024. Her role will involve leading the producing department, overseeing the production of the school’s films, as well as guiding students on the Producing degrees as they learn project development and financing skills.
She takes over from Chris Auty, who left the Nfts in September to become CEO at the London Film School.
Robey will continue working at Wellington Films in a key role,...
- 11/28/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Bridge06 is an agency and consultancy that supports access coordinators and disabled, d/Deaf and neurodiverse talent.
UK film, TV and theatre talent agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates has appointed access advocates Sara Johnson and Julie Fernandez, co-founders of Bridge06, to expand the agency’s committment to improve disability representation for the media and entertainment Industries.
Bridge06 is an agency and consultancy that supports access coordinators and disabled, d/Deaf and neurodiverse talent, as well as offering training to all areas of the film and TV industry on bringing accessibility into day-to-day business.
Johnson and Fernandez will be working full-time...
UK film, TV and theatre talent agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates has appointed access advocates Sara Johnson and Julie Fernandez, co-founders of Bridge06, to expand the agency’s committment to improve disability representation for the media and entertainment Industries.
Bridge06 is an agency and consultancy that supports access coordinators and disabled, d/Deaf and neurodiverse talent, as well as offering training to all areas of the film and TV industry on bringing accessibility into day-to-day business.
Johnson and Fernandez will be working full-time...
- 11/28/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Our Film Stories Black Friday deals are back! Get a surprise box of ten back issues for just £10. That’s a bargain.
It’s very difficult to do the whole Black Friday thing when you’re a small independent publisher, but here we are: and we’re reopening an offer that proved very, very popular last year.
If you love film magazines, and love print, then we’re offering the chance to buy a box of ten back issues for just £10. It’s usually worth £59.90! That’s at least 1000 pages of film writing, in a back issue mystery box.
We don’t run this offer for long, and you can find it at store.filmstories.co.uk.
There, you’ll also find an array of magazines available for individual sale, including our biggest ever issue. You could also treat yourself to a couple of Blu-rays – both films starring Kevin Costner,...
It’s very difficult to do the whole Black Friday thing when you’re a small independent publisher, but here we are: and we’re reopening an offer that proved very, very popular last year.
If you love film magazines, and love print, then we’re offering the chance to buy a box of ten back issues for just £10. It’s usually worth £59.90! That’s at least 1000 pages of film writing, in a back issue mystery box.
We don’t run this offer for long, and you can find it at store.filmstories.co.uk.
There, you’ll also find an array of magazines available for individual sale, including our biggest ever issue. You could also treat yourself to a couple of Blu-rays – both films starring Kevin Costner,...
- 11/24/2023
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
Henry Pettigrew and Lorn Macdonald in The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Photo: Courtesy of Eiff The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 9pm, Sky Arts, Monday, October 30
Hope Dickson Leach may have moved the action of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic from London to Edinburgh, but she's stayed true to the gothic nature of the original. A film that started life as a hybrid theatre production with the National Theatre of Scotland, this is the tale of man and monster reflected through the eyes of lawyer Utterson (Lorn Macdonald). Rather than focusing on the transformation of the doctor (Henry Pettigrew) we all know so well, it's the increasingly power-mad Utterson's shift that holds sway. Dickson Leach uses the theatricality of the hybrid to strong stylistic effect and told us she relished returning to the source material saying she was "bewitched by the text". If...
Hope Dickson Leach may have moved the action of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic from London to Edinburgh, but she's stayed true to the gothic nature of the original. A film that started life as a hybrid theatre production with the National Theatre of Scotland, this is the tale of man and monster reflected through the eyes of lawyer Utterson (Lorn Macdonald). Rather than focusing on the transformation of the doctor (Henry Pettigrew) we all know so well, it's the increasingly power-mad Utterson's shift that holds sway. Dickson Leach uses the theatricality of the hybrid to strong stylistic effect and told us she relished returning to the source material saying she was "bewitched by the text". If...
- 10/30/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Henry Pettigrew and Lorn Macdonald in The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Photo: Courtesy of Eiff Hope Dickson Leach’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde premieres on Sky Arts at 9pm on October 30. It’s the final destination of the reimagining of the Robert Louis Stevenson that began as a hybrid theatre piece and then screened in cinemas. Her retelling, co-adapted with Vlad Butucea, offers a change from the usual sight of Dr Jekyll (Henry Pettigrew) growing fur and turning monstrous in his lab in favour of coming at the story more from Stevenson’s original perspective of lawyer Gabriel Utterson (Lorn Macdonald), who finds himself becoming increasingly morally compromised as the tale progresses. We can’t up with Dickson Leach to talk about creating the hybrid film with the National Theatre of Scotland and coming at it from a different angle after...
- 10/29/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The fund, launched in response to Brexit, is celebrating its fifth anniversary.
The Uncertain Kingdom, the UK feature development fund and shorts commissioner is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a more structured way in which it supports films as the UK heads into a possible general election year in 2024.
The development fund is committing to two rounds per year in a fixed calendar slot after previously operating on an ad hoc basis, Its next round opens on November 1 and closes on November 30, before opening again on May 1 and closing on May 31. Funding is divided between two to four projects per round,...
The Uncertain Kingdom, the UK feature development fund and shorts commissioner is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a more structured way in which it supports films as the UK heads into a possible general election year in 2024.
The development fund is committing to two rounds per year in a fixed calendar slot after previously operating on an ad hoc basis, Its next round opens on November 1 and closes on November 30, before opening again on May 1 and closing on May 31. Funding is divided between two to four projects per round,...
- 10/26/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Hope Dickson Leach’s atmospheric adaptation of the classic thriller looks good but in rewriting the story, adds an unnecessary element of distraction
This atmospheric black and white adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic classic from Hope Dickson Leach, the director of The Levelling, opens with a tremendous shiver of menace. In the dead of night, as an eerily inhuman singsong echoes on the soundtrack, a little girl walks along an alleyway. Something steps out of the shadows. From behind, it appears to be a man, a gentleman – in a top hat and exquisitely tailored shirt. But the way it moves, gliding like a predator towards the girl, is hardly human; then it savages her with the rotting teeth of an animal. Perhaps nothing else that follows quite lives up to this taste of evil.
Dickson Leach’s film adds to the pile of 120-plus screen versions of Jekyll and Hyde.
This atmospheric black and white adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic classic from Hope Dickson Leach, the director of The Levelling, opens with a tremendous shiver of menace. In the dead of night, as an eerily inhuman singsong echoes on the soundtrack, a little girl walks along an alleyway. Something steps out of the shadows. From behind, it appears to be a man, a gentleman – in a top hat and exquisitely tailored shirt. But the way it moves, gliding like a predator towards the girl, is hardly human; then it savages her with the rotting teeth of an animal. Perhaps nothing else that follows quite lives up to this taste of evil.
Dickson Leach’s film adds to the pile of 120-plus screen versions of Jekyll and Hyde.
- 10/4/2023
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
“Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” star Morfydd Clark is set to headline a biopic “Making Noise,” about Evelyn Glennie, a deaf woman who became the world’s premier solo percussionist.
Multi-Grammy winner Glennie, who hails from Scotland, experienced profound hearing loss as a child. But instead of giving up on her dream of making music, she instead went on to become a global star, performing with artists including Bjork, Underworld and Mark Knopfler. She has also released more than 40 albums and performed over 2,500 concerts worldwide.
Embankment is launching global pre-sales on the project at the Toronto Film Festival. Directed by “The Levelling” helmer Hope Dickson Leach, “Making Noise” is described as a “vibrant, exhilarating story of how the world fell in love with a woman who broke all the rules.”
Clark, who has also appeared in “Saint Maud” (earning her a BAFTA Rising Star nom) and will...
Multi-Grammy winner Glennie, who hails from Scotland, experienced profound hearing loss as a child. But instead of giving up on her dream of making music, she instead went on to become a global star, performing with artists including Bjork, Underworld and Mark Knopfler. She has also released more than 40 albums and performed over 2,500 concerts worldwide.
Embankment is launching global pre-sales on the project at the Toronto Film Festival. Directed by “The Levelling” helmer Hope Dickson Leach, “Making Noise” is described as a “vibrant, exhilarating story of how the world fell in love with a woman who broke all the rules.”
Clark, who has also appeared in “Saint Maud” (earning her a BAFTA Rising Star nom) and will...
- 9/7/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy and K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The compact programme saw 71% of screenings sell out.
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has wrapped its six-day 2023 edition with over 10,000 in-person attendees, and 71% of cinema screenings sold out.
A total of 10,277 guests attended the festival between August 18-23, with an overall cinema occupancy of 82%.
The festival played 75 cinema screenings, 10 outdoor screenings and five discussion events, in a compact programme concentrated on deeper engagement.
The programme included 24 feature films, five retrospective titles, and five short film selections; with seven further features played on an outdoor screening weekend.
More than 75 guests attended the festival to present their films, including directors Hope Dickson Leach,...
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has wrapped its six-day 2023 edition with over 10,000 in-person attendees, and 71% of cinema screenings sold out.
A total of 10,277 guests attended the festival between August 18-23, with an overall cinema occupancy of 82%.
The festival played 75 cinema screenings, 10 outdoor screenings and five discussion events, in a compact programme concentrated on deeper engagement.
The programme included 24 feature films, five retrospective titles, and five short film selections; with seven further features played on an outdoor screening weekend.
More than 75 guests attended the festival to present their films, including directors Hope Dickson Leach,...
- 8/24/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The compact programme saw 71% of screenings sell out.
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has wrapped its six-day 2023 edition with over 10,000 in-person attendees, and 71% of cinema screenings sold out.
A total of 10,277 guests attended the festival between August 18-23, with an overall cinema occupancy of 82%.
The festival played 75 cinema screenings, 10 outdoor screenings and five discussion events, in a compact programme concentrated on deeper engagement.
The programme included 24 feature films, five retrospective titles, and five short film selections; with seven further features played on an outdoor screening weekend.
More than 75 guests attended the festival to present their films, including directors Hope Dickson Leach,...
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has wrapped its six-day 2023 edition with over 10,000 in-person attendees, and 71% of cinema screenings sold out.
A total of 10,277 guests attended the festival between August 18-23, with an overall cinema occupancy of 82%.
The festival played 75 cinema screenings, 10 outdoor screenings and five discussion events, in a compact programme concentrated on deeper engagement.
The programme included 24 feature films, five retrospective titles, and five short film selections; with seven further features played on an outdoor screening weekend.
More than 75 guests attended the festival to present their films, including directors Hope Dickson Leach,...
- 8/24/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
“It’s a mad way to make a film, and I’m not sure it’s not something I would rush into again,” director Hope Dickson Leach said of the process behind her latest feature, the Edinburgh competition title The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Leach, best known for her well-received debut, The Levelling, which debuted at Toronto in 2016, was approached by the National Theatre of Scotland during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic to create a hybrid film-theatre project that could engage audiences while health restrictions were still in place.
The result was a stage production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, performed live at the Leith Theatre in Edinburgh by a troop of actors who were tracked around the venue by six cameras. The footage was mixed and edited live by Leach, who sat in an operating van outside the venue.
Leach, best known for her well-received debut, The Levelling, which debuted at Toronto in 2016, was approached by the National Theatre of Scotland during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic to create a hybrid film-theatre project that could engage audiences while health restrictions were still in place.
The result was a stage production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, performed live at the Leith Theatre in Edinburgh by a troop of actors who were tracked around the venue by six cameras. The footage was mixed and edited live by Leach, who sat in an operating van outside the venue.
- 8/21/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Photo: Courtesy of Eiff Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced its line-up this year will feature five world premiere features, including The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, documentary Choose Irvine Welsh and Welsh-set romantic drama Chuck Chuck Baby.
The slate of 24 films - which is abbreviated due to the event being hosted by the International Festival after the collapse of Eiff's parent organisation The Centre for the Moving Image last year - also features the already announced premiere of Silent Roar as the opening night film and Scottish thriller Kill.
Afire Photo: Courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Films Hope Dickson Leach's Jekyll and Hyde has been created as a live hybrid performance with the National Theatre of Scotland. Ian Jefferies' Choose Irvine Welsh looks at the career of the Trainspotting author, while Janis Pugh's Chuck Chuck Baby...
The slate of 24 films - which is abbreviated due to the event being hosted by the International Festival after the collapse of Eiff's parent organisation The Centre for the Moving Image last year - also features the already announced premiere of Silent Roar as the opening night film and Scottish thriller Kill.
Afire Photo: Courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Films Hope Dickson Leach's Jekyll and Hyde has been created as a live hybrid performance with the National Theatre of Scotland. Ian Jefferies' Choose Irvine Welsh looks at the career of the Trainspotting author, while Janis Pugh's Chuck Chuck Baby...
- 7/6/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A total of 24 feature films, including five world premieres, make up this year’s programme.
Edinburgh International Film Festival has unveiled a 24-title programme for 2023, featuring the world premiere of Janis Pugh’s feature debut Chuck Chuck Baby, and international titles spanning Europe, China, India and Japan.
There are five world premieres, plus five retrospective titles, five short films and an outdoor screening weekend of seven features.
Chuck Chuck Baby unfurls in a chicken factory in north Wales, and stars Louise Brealey, Annabel Scholey, Sorcha Cusack, Celyn Jones and Emily Fairn. It’s set in the present day, with a...
Edinburgh International Film Festival has unveiled a 24-title programme for 2023, featuring the world premiere of Janis Pugh’s feature debut Chuck Chuck Baby, and international titles spanning Europe, China, India and Japan.
There are five world premieres, plus five retrospective titles, five short films and an outdoor screening weekend of seven features.
Chuck Chuck Baby unfurls in a chicken factory in north Wales, and stars Louise Brealey, Annabel Scholey, Sorcha Cusack, Celyn Jones and Emily Fairn. It’s set in the present day, with a...
- 7/6/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Choose Irvine Welsh” are among the world premieres at the 2023 Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), the full program for which was unveiled on Thursday.
As previously announced, “Silent Roar” and “Fremont” will bookend the festival, which includes 24 feature films, five retrospective titles, five short film programs and an outdoor screening weekend with seven features.
A hybrid adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Hope Dickson Leach’s film transposes the action from London to Victorian Edinburgh. Ian Jefferies’ “Choose Irvine Welsh” is a documentary about the renowned “Trainspotting” author and features his admirers including Iggy Pop, Martin Compston, Danny Boyle, Bobbie Gillespie, Gail Porter, Rowetta and Andrew Macdonald.
Other world premieres include debutant Janice Pugh’s Lgbtqia+ romance “Chuck Chuck Baby,” starring Louise Brealey (“Sherlock”) and Annabel Scholey (“The Split...
As previously announced, “Silent Roar” and “Fremont” will bookend the festival, which includes 24 feature films, five retrospective titles, five short film programs and an outdoor screening weekend with seven features.
A hybrid adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Hope Dickson Leach’s film transposes the action from London to Victorian Edinburgh. Ian Jefferies’ “Choose Irvine Welsh” is a documentary about the renowned “Trainspotting” author and features his admirers including Iggy Pop, Martin Compston, Danny Boyle, Bobbie Gillespie, Gail Porter, Rowetta and Andrew Macdonald.
Other world premieres include debutant Janice Pugh’s Lgbtqia+ romance “Chuck Chuck Baby,” starring Louise Brealey (“Sherlock”) and Annabel Scholey (“The Split...
- 7/6/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Further new releases include ‘Studio 666’, ‘La Mif’ and ‘F@ck This Job’.
It’s a tale of two underdogs at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office. Roger Michell’s The Duke goes up against Joe Wright’s Cyrano as both make their debuts.
The Duke is Michell’s final feature – the Notting Hill and Venus director passed away in September of last year – and is based on the true story of Kempton Bunton, the Newcastle cab driver who in 1965 appeared at the Old Bailey for stealing Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from London’s National Gallery...
It’s a tale of two underdogs at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office. Roger Michell’s The Duke goes up against Joe Wright’s Cyrano as both make their debuts.
The Duke is Michell’s final feature – the Notting Hill and Venus director passed away in September of last year – and is based on the true story of Kempton Bunton, the Newcastle cab driver who in 1965 appeared at the Old Bailey for stealing Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from London’s National Gallery...
- 2/25/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Is it a play? Or is it a film? There are two sides to director Hope Dickson Leach’s ambitious staging of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale
“Cinema is about change,” says Hope Dickson Leach. “We watch people transform. That’s the heart of the Jekyll and Hyde story.” In February, Dickson Leach’s hybrid production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic classic Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is taking over Edinburgh’s Leith theatre. In an ambitious crisscrossing of media, her team will be simultaneously creating a live theatrical event and a livestreamed cinema screening. The combined footage from the live shows will later be edited into a feature film. “Our hunger for storytelling is different now,” the director says of the colossal project. “Audiences want an event.”
Dickson Leach is in her office in Leith theatre, bundled up in a coat, scarf and bright bobble hat.
“Cinema is about change,” says Hope Dickson Leach. “We watch people transform. That’s the heart of the Jekyll and Hyde story.” In February, Dickson Leach’s hybrid production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic classic Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is taking over Edinburgh’s Leith theatre. In an ambitious crisscrossing of media, her team will be simultaneously creating a live theatrical event and a livestreamed cinema screening. The combined footage from the live shows will later be edited into a feature film. “Our hunger for storytelling is different now,” the director says of the colossal project. “Audiences want an event.”
Dickson Leach is in her office in Leith theatre, bundled up in a coat, scarf and bright bobble hat.
- 2/10/2022
- by Kate Wyver
- The Guardian - Film News
Cosmic Cat will distribute the live theatrical performance across UK cinemas.
Scottish actors Lorn Macdonald and Henry Pettigrew are to star in director Hope Dickson Leach’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Victorian gothic novella, The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde.
The tale will relocate from London to Edinburgh, with Beats actor Macdonald and star of BBC series Guilt Pettigrew taking on the roles of Utterson and Dr Jekyll, supported by a cast including Tam Dean Burn, Caroline Deyga, Lois Hagerty, David Hayman, Scott Miller, Alison Peebles, Peter Singh and Ali Watts. It is written by Dickson Leach and Vlad Butucea.
Scottish actors Lorn Macdonald and Henry Pettigrew are to star in director Hope Dickson Leach’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Victorian gothic novella, The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde.
The tale will relocate from London to Edinburgh, with Beats actor Macdonald and star of BBC series Guilt Pettigrew taking on the roles of Utterson and Dr Jekyll, supported by a cast including Tam Dean Burn, Caroline Deyga, Lois Hagerty, David Hayman, Scott Miller, Alison Peebles, Peter Singh and Ali Watts. It is written by Dickson Leach and Vlad Butucea.
- 1/18/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Hope Dickson Leach, BAFTA-winning director of acclaimed Toronto, Rotterdam and London festival selection “The Levelling,” has embarked upon a hybrid adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
Leach and co-writer Vlad Butucea have transposed the story from London to Victorian Edinburgh. The story follows Gabriel Utterson as he enters a world of dark duplicity to uncover the identity of the mysterious Mr. Hyde and the hold he has over Utterson’s old friend Dr Jekyll. The adaptation has been developed with theater dramaturg Rosie Kellagher. The casting will be revealed imminently.
The adaptation will kick off as a theatrical live experience, where audiences will enter a live filmset built within the atmospheric setting of Edinburgh’s historic Leith Theatre, over Feb. 25, 26 and 27, 2022. Following the final performance on Feb. 27, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” will be livestreamed to selected Scottish cinemas.
Leach and co-writer Vlad Butucea have transposed the story from London to Victorian Edinburgh. The story follows Gabriel Utterson as he enters a world of dark duplicity to uncover the identity of the mysterious Mr. Hyde and the hold he has over Utterson’s old friend Dr Jekyll. The adaptation has been developed with theater dramaturg Rosie Kellagher. The casting will be revealed imminently.
The adaptation will kick off as a theatrical live experience, where audiences will enter a live filmset built within the atmospheric setting of Edinburgh’s historic Leith Theatre, over Feb. 25, 26 and 27, 2022. Following the final performance on Feb. 27, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” will be livestreamed to selected Scottish cinemas.
- 12/16/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Annual bursary prize is awarded at the BFI London Film Festival.
Diversity standards have been introduced to the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which grants a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director, or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
For the first time, all of the projects by the filmmakers applying for the annual award will have to meet BFI Diversity Standards, in a bid to support underrepresented filmmakers and raise awareness of the drive towards greater inclusion.
The BFI Diversity Standards – which are a requirement for the majority of public funding for film in the UK,...
Diversity standards have been introduced to the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which grants a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director, or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
For the first time, all of the projects by the filmmakers applying for the annual award will have to meet BFI Diversity Standards, in a bid to support underrepresented filmmakers and raise awareness of the drive towards greater inclusion.
The BFI Diversity Standards – which are a requirement for the majority of public funding for film in the UK,...
- 5/7/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Cathy Brady, Aleem Khan, and Francis Lee make the shortlist.
The BFI has revealed the shortlist for the three filmmakers in the running for the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which grants a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director, or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
The 2020 shortlist comprises Cathy Brady, writer-director of Wildfire; Aleem Khan, writer-director of After Love; and Francis Lee, writer-director of Ammonite.
The jury will be led by Michaela Coel, the creator and star of HBO/BBC drama series I May Destroy You, who will be joined by BFI...
The BFI has revealed the shortlist for the three filmmakers in the running for the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which grants a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director, or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
The 2020 shortlist comprises Cathy Brady, writer-director of Wildfire; Aleem Khan, writer-director of After Love; and Francis Lee, writer-director of Ammonite.
The jury will be led by Michaela Coel, the creator and star of HBO/BBC drama series I May Destroy You, who will be joined by BFI...
- 9/21/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The BFI and Iwc Schaffhausen today revealed the three filmmakers shortlisted for the annual Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, given in association with the UK film organization.
The 2020 contenders are Cathy Brady, writer-director of debut feature Wildfire, Aleem Khan, writer-director of debut feature After Love, and Francis Lee, writer-director of sophomore feature Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan.
At £50,000 ($65k), and now in its fifth year, the prize is one of the most significant bursaries of its kind in the UK, expressly designed to support the future careers of promising new UK film talent.
Brit multi-hyphenate Michaela Coel (I May Destroy You) will join Ben Roberts, Chief Executive of the BFI and Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of luxury watch maker Iwc Schaffhausen, to select the winner, which will be announced at the BFI London Film Festival 2020 Virtual Lff Audience Awards, on Sunday 18 October – the closing night of the festival.
Chaired by Tricia Tuttle,...
The 2020 contenders are Cathy Brady, writer-director of debut feature Wildfire, Aleem Khan, writer-director of debut feature After Love, and Francis Lee, writer-director of sophomore feature Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan.
At £50,000 ($65k), and now in its fifth year, the prize is one of the most significant bursaries of its kind in the UK, expressly designed to support the future careers of promising new UK film talent.
Brit multi-hyphenate Michaela Coel (I May Destroy You) will join Ben Roberts, Chief Executive of the BFI and Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of luxury watch maker Iwc Schaffhausen, to select the winner, which will be announced at the BFI London Film Festival 2020 Virtual Lff Audience Awards, on Sunday 18 October – the closing night of the festival.
Chaired by Tricia Tuttle,...
- 9/21/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
They include Hurricane Films’ Sid Vicious biopic ’Something Else’.
A drama about Sid Vicious and his mother is among four UK projects to receive a tranche of development funding from the European Union’s Creative Europe Media programme.
Something Else (aka Ma Vicious) will be written and directed by Justin Edgar of 104 Films and received €50,000 from Creative Europe.
The awards will be some of the last in the UK to receive support from the fund as the UK will not participate in the next Creative Europe programme, due to start in January 2021, as a result of the UK leaving...
A drama about Sid Vicious and his mother is among four UK projects to receive a tranche of development funding from the European Union’s Creative Europe Media programme.
Something Else (aka Ma Vicious) will be written and directed by Justin Edgar of 104 Films and received €50,000 from Creative Europe.
The awards will be some of the last in the UK to receive support from the fund as the UK will not participate in the next Creative Europe programme, due to start in January 2021, as a result of the UK leaving...
- 5/20/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Read Screen’s latest stories on the spread of Covid-19 around the globe.
The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is spreading around the globe, causing multiple cancellations, postponements and changes to film industry schedules.
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The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is spreading around the globe, causing multiple cancellations, postponements and changes to film industry schedules.
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- 4/28/2020
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The project will play as two feature-length volumes.
UK anthology film The Uncertain Kingdom has switched to an online release on June 1, following the cancellation of its April 3 theatrical launch due to coronavirus.
Released through Verve Pictures, the film will play as two feature-length volumes, available on BFI Player, iTunes, GooglePlay, Amazon Prime Video and Curzon Home Cinema.
Three of the 20 titles will premiere from May 18 via the BFI’s social media channels, in advance of the full launch. Those are David Proud’s Verisimilitude, Lanre Malaolu’s The Conversation, and Carol Salter’s Left Coast.
Verve Pictures said the...
UK anthology film The Uncertain Kingdom has switched to an online release on June 1, following the cancellation of its April 3 theatrical launch due to coronavirus.
Released through Verve Pictures, the film will play as two feature-length volumes, available on BFI Player, iTunes, GooglePlay, Amazon Prime Video and Curzon Home Cinema.
Three of the 20 titles will premiere from May 18 via the BFI’s social media channels, in advance of the full launch. Those are David Proud’s Verisimilitude, Lanre Malaolu’s The Conversation, and Carol Salter’s Left Coast.
Verve Pictures said the...
- 4/23/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
In its latest funding round, Vikings and Brooklyn backer Screen Ireland has funded new projects from six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan, Ida scribe Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Maudie director Aisling Walsh.
The largest production awards of €700k went to Cowtown Pictures’ movie L.O.L.A by Andrew Legge and Rachel Carey’s comedy Cutters from O’Sullivan Productions. The former, set in 1940s England, tells the story of Thomasina, who invents a machine that can intercept broadcasts from the future.
Movies to get development funding include Jim Sheridan projects Murphy And The Indian and Sheriff Street, Aisling Walsh project The Ballroom for Parallel Film and Malgorzata Szumowska (The Other Lamb) project A Kind Of Longing. Murphy And The Indian will follow the true story of Standing Bear, a Native American and civil rights leader who won a landmark 1879 legal case. Sheridan’s Hell’s Kitchen is producing.
The Favourite producer...
The largest production awards of €700k went to Cowtown Pictures’ movie L.O.L.A by Andrew Legge and Rachel Carey’s comedy Cutters from O’Sullivan Productions. The former, set in 1940s England, tells the story of Thomasina, who invents a machine that can intercept broadcasts from the future.
Movies to get development funding include Jim Sheridan projects Murphy And The Indian and Sheriff Street, Aisling Walsh project The Ballroom for Parallel Film and Malgorzata Szumowska (The Other Lamb) project A Kind Of Longing. Murphy And The Indian will follow the true story of Standing Bear, a Native American and civil rights leader who won a landmark 1879 legal case. Sheridan’s Hell’s Kitchen is producing.
The Favourite producer...
- 11/21/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Directors include Bifa winners Jason Wingard and Carol Salter.
The Uncertain Kingdom, the £200,000 short film initiative aiming to provide a portrait of the contemporary UK, has unveiled the 20 films on its slate.
Actors participating in the projects include Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Mark Addy (Game Of Thrones), Steve Evets (Apostasy), Hugh Dennis (Fleabag), Andy Hamilton (What We Did On Our Holiday), Ruth Madeley (Years & Years) and Laurie Davidson (Cats).
Screen can also reveal an exclusive first look at one of the titles, Hope Dickson Leach’s Strong Is Better Than Angry, above.
Each film is receiving £10,000. The finance is privately raised.
The Uncertain Kingdom, the £200,000 short film initiative aiming to provide a portrait of the contemporary UK, has unveiled the 20 films on its slate.
Actors participating in the projects include Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Mark Addy (Game Of Thrones), Steve Evets (Apostasy), Hugh Dennis (Fleabag), Andy Hamilton (What We Did On Our Holiday), Ruth Madeley (Years & Years) and Laurie Davidson (Cats).
Screen can also reveal an exclusive first look at one of the titles, Hope Dickson Leach’s Strong Is Better Than Angry, above.
Each film is receiving £10,000. The finance is privately raised.
- 11/18/2019
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Nzfc CEO Annabelle Sheehan.
New Zealand Film Commission (Nzfc) CEO Annabelle Sheehan believes there are currently two global drivers of change in the screen industry.
The first is the rise of streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV+ and Amazon – the latter of which has just confirmed it will shoot the series The Lord of the Rings in Nz.
The second is a push towards a more diverse and inclusive industry, both behind and in front of the camera.
It’s this second driver that the Nzfc’s upcoming global summit Power of Inclusion will seek to explore head on in partnership with Walt Disney Co. and Women in Film and Television (Wift) International.
The October event has already attracted an impressive array of both international and local speakers including actress and activist Geena Davis; Black-ish and Grown-ish star Yara Shahidi; director Niki Caro, Pose creator Steven Canals, The Black List...
New Zealand Film Commission (Nzfc) CEO Annabelle Sheehan believes there are currently two global drivers of change in the screen industry.
The first is the rise of streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV+ and Amazon – the latter of which has just confirmed it will shoot the series The Lord of the Rings in Nz.
The second is a push towards a more diverse and inclusive industry, both behind and in front of the camera.
It’s this second driver that the Nzfc’s upcoming global summit Power of Inclusion will seek to explore head on in partnership with Walt Disney Co. and Women in Film and Television (Wift) International.
The October event has already attracted an impressive array of both international and local speakers including actress and activist Geena Davis; Black-ish and Grown-ish star Yara Shahidi; director Niki Caro, Pose creator Steven Canals, The Black List...
- 9/23/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Geena Davis.
Academy Award winner and activist Geena Davis will be among the speakers at the New Zealand Film Commission’s (Nzfc) Power of Inclusion summit in October.
Put on in partnership with the Walt Disney Co. and Women in Film and Television International, the conference, to be held in Auckland, is designed to shine a spotlight on inclusion and representation in entertainment.
In addition to Davis, it boasts a line-up of speakers that include Nz Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern; Pose creator Steven Canals; Black-ish star Yara; Shahidi; writers and directors Niki Caro and Haifaa Al-Mansour; The Black List founder Franklin Leonard; writer and producer Philippa Boyens (Lord of the Rings); Raising Films founder Hope Dickson Leach; director Heperi Mita (Mereta: How Mum Decolonised the Screen) and Maria Giese, who led a federal investigation for female directors in the Us. Among the Australian speakers are Magda Szubanski and Benjamin Law.
Academy Award winner and activist Geena Davis will be among the speakers at the New Zealand Film Commission’s (Nzfc) Power of Inclusion summit in October.
Put on in partnership with the Walt Disney Co. and Women in Film and Television International, the conference, to be held in Auckland, is designed to shine a spotlight on inclusion and representation in entertainment.
In addition to Davis, it boasts a line-up of speakers that include Nz Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern; Pose creator Steven Canals; Black-ish star Yara; Shahidi; writers and directors Niki Caro and Haifaa Al-Mansour; The Black List founder Franklin Leonard; writer and producer Philippa Boyens (Lord of the Rings); Raising Films founder Hope Dickson Leach; director Heperi Mita (Mereta: How Mum Decolonised the Screen) and Maria Giese, who led a federal investigation for female directors in the Us. Among the Australian speakers are Magda Szubanski and Benjamin Law.
- 9/12/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Danny Boyle will lead the judging panel for the prize.
The BFI has selected the three filmmakers on the shortlist for its Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which gives a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
The chosen three this year are Rose Glass, writer-director of Saint Maud; Hong Khaou, writer-director of Monsoon; and Peter Mackie Burns, director of Rialto.
All three are previous Screen Stars of Tomorrow: Burns in 2005, Khaou in 2013, and Glass in 2018.
The winner will be chosen by a panel headed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle,...
The BFI has selected the three filmmakers on the shortlist for its Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which gives a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
The chosen three this year are Rose Glass, writer-director of Saint Maud; Hong Khaou, writer-director of Monsoon; and Peter Mackie Burns, director of Rialto.
All three are previous Screen Stars of Tomorrow: Burns in 2005, Khaou in 2013, and Glass in 2018.
The winner will be chosen by a panel headed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle,...
- 9/5/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Award-winning writer-directors Hope Dickson Leach and Jackie van Beek are the latest speakers to join New Zealand's pioneering The Power of Inclusion Summit, which will be held Oct. 3-4 in Auckland.
The inaugural two-day program will feature case studies, panels and keynotes addressing issues related to inclusion and representation, with the aim of positing new action to create a more inclusive industry — and world at large.
Dickson Leach and van Beek join an already impressive roster of some 35 speakers from around the world, including New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Mulan director Niki Caro and Philippa Boyens, the ...
The inaugural two-day program will feature case studies, panels and keynotes addressing issues related to inclusion and representation, with the aim of positing new action to create a more inclusive industry — and world at large.
Dickson Leach and van Beek join an already impressive roster of some 35 speakers from around the world, including New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Mulan director Niki Caro and Philippa Boyens, the ...
- 7/29/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Award-winning writer-directors Hope Dickson Leach and Jackie van Beek are the latest speakers to join New Zealand's pioneering The Power of Inclusion Summit, which will be held Oct. 3-4 in Auckland.
The inaugural two-day program will feature case studies, panels and keynotes addressing issues related to inclusion and representation, with the aim of positing new action to create a more inclusive industry — and world at large.
Dickson Leach and van Beek join an already impressive roster of some 35 speakers from around the world, including New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Mulan director Niki Caro and Philippa Boyens, the ...
The inaugural two-day program will feature case studies, panels and keynotes addressing issues related to inclusion and representation, with the aim of positing new action to create a more inclusive industry — and world at large.
Dickson Leach and van Beek join an already impressive roster of some 35 speakers from around the world, including New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Mulan director Niki Caro and Philippa Boyens, the ...
- 7/29/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
82% of respondents to say caring has negatively impacted their work in the screen industries.
Raising Films has launched the first report about carers working in the UK film industry, surveying 135 people who are current and past workers in the screen industries who have had caring responsibilities now or in the past.
Some key findings from the report:
82% of respondents stated that the impact of caring on their role in the screen industries has been somewhat or strongly negative. 74% Our respondents agreed or strongly agreed that balancing work and care had had a negative impact on their financial situation 36% of respondents earn under £10,000/year.
Raising Films has launched the first report about carers working in the UK film industry, surveying 135 people who are current and past workers in the screen industries who have had caring responsibilities now or in the past.
Some key findings from the report:
82% of respondents stated that the impact of caring on their role in the screen industries has been somewhat or strongly negative. 74% Our respondents agreed or strongly agreed that balancing work and care had had a negative impact on their financial situation 36% of respondents earn under £10,000/year.
- 6/13/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Verve Pictures to distribute completed films at the end of the year.
The £200,000 short films initiative The Uncertain Kingdom, launched in December 2018, has finalised the 20 directors who will each receive £10,000 to finance a short film project.
Joining the previously announced Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling) are the Oscar-winning Orlando Von Einsiedel (The White Helmets), International Emmy winner Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered) and Bifa winner Carol Salter (Almost Heaven).
Also on the roster are four former Screen Stars of Tomorrow: actor/writer/director Antonia Campbell-Hughes, writer/director Rubika Shah, and producers Helen Simmons and Yaw Basoah.
The full list of project teams can be found below.
The £200,000 short films initiative The Uncertain Kingdom, launched in December 2018, has finalised the 20 directors who will each receive £10,000 to finance a short film project.
Joining the previously announced Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling) are the Oscar-winning Orlando Von Einsiedel (The White Helmets), International Emmy winner Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered) and Bifa winner Carol Salter (Almost Heaven).
Also on the roster are four former Screen Stars of Tomorrow: actor/writer/director Antonia Campbell-Hughes, writer/director Rubika Shah, and producers Helen Simmons and Yaw Basoah.
The full list of project teams can be found below.
- 5/31/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Speakers include Amma Asante, Alice Lowe and Hope Dickson Leach.
UK director Amma Asante will reflect on her BAFTA-winning career as part of the three-day Industry Focus Event at the Glasgow Film Festival next month (February 27-March 1).
Asante’s films include A Way Of Life, Belle, A United Kingdom and Where Hands Touch. She recently signed to direct The Billion Dollar Spy for Walden Media and Weed Road. The ‘in conversation’ event will be hosted by Screen International with the support of Nfts Scotland.
Further industry panels and talks at Glasgow will include ‘The Actor-Director Relationship’ with Dirty God’s...
UK director Amma Asante will reflect on her BAFTA-winning career as part of the three-day Industry Focus Event at the Glasgow Film Festival next month (February 27-March 1).
Asante’s films include A Way Of Life, Belle, A United Kingdom and Where Hands Touch. She recently signed to direct The Billion Dollar Spy for Walden Media and Weed Road. The ‘in conversation’ event will be hosted by Screen International with the support of Nfts Scotland.
Further industry panels and talks at Glasgow will include ‘The Actor-Director Relationship’ with Dirty God’s...
- 1/31/2019
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
Ray Panthaki and Nathaniel Martello-White also among directors to sign up to initiative.
A £200,000 project has been launched to finance 20 short films that will provide a spectrum of perspectives on the UK in 2019.
The initiative been inspired by a variety of topics including Brexit, climate change, diversity and #MeToo.
Named The Uncertain Kingdom, the initiative comes from John Jencks, director, writer and producer at The Electric Shadow Company, whose credits include Out Of Blue and The Hippopotamus.
The Levelling filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach and McQueen director Ian Bonhôte are among the first four directors to be selected. Rising actor...
A £200,000 project has been launched to finance 20 short films that will provide a spectrum of perspectives on the UK in 2019.
The initiative been inspired by a variety of topics including Brexit, climate change, diversity and #MeToo.
Named The Uncertain Kingdom, the initiative comes from John Jencks, director, writer and producer at The Electric Shadow Company, whose credits include Out Of Blue and The Hippopotamus.
The Levelling filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach and McQueen director Ian Bonhôte are among the first four directors to be selected. Rising actor...
- 12/17/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Ray Panthaki and Nathaniel Martello-White also among directors to sign up to initiative.
A £200,000 project has been launched to finance 20 short films that will provide perspectives on the UK as it heads towards Brexit in 2019.
Named The Uncertain Kingdom, the initiative comes from John Jencks, director, writer and producer at The Electric Shadow Company, whose credits include Out Of Blue and The Hippopotamus.
The Levelling filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach and McQueen director Ian Bonhôte are among the first four directors to be selected. Rising actor/filmmakers Ray Panthaki and Nathaniel Martello-White have also signed up.
Further established and rising...
A £200,000 project has been launched to finance 20 short films that will provide perspectives on the UK as it heads towards Brexit in 2019.
Named The Uncertain Kingdom, the initiative comes from John Jencks, director, writer and producer at The Electric Shadow Company, whose credits include Out Of Blue and The Hippopotamus.
The Levelling filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach and McQueen director Ian Bonhôte are among the first four directors to be selected. Rising actor/filmmakers Ray Panthaki and Nathaniel Martello-White have also signed up.
Further established and rising...
- 12/17/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Ray Panthaki and Nathaniel Martello-White also among directors to sign up to initiative.
A £200,000 scheme has been launched to finance 20 short films that will provide perspectives on the UK as it heads towards Brexit in 2019.
Named The Uncertain Kingdom, the initiative comes from John Jencks, director, writer and producer at The Electric Shadow Company, whose credits include Out Of Blue and The Hippopotamus.
The Levelling filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach and McQueen director Ian Bonhôte are among the first four directors to be selected. Rising actor/filmmakers Ray Panthaki and Nathaniel Martello-White have also signed up.
Further established and rising...
A £200,000 scheme has been launched to finance 20 short films that will provide perspectives on the UK as it heads towards Brexit in 2019.
Named The Uncertain Kingdom, the initiative comes from John Jencks, director, writer and producer at The Electric Shadow Company, whose credits include Out Of Blue and The Hippopotamus.
The Levelling filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach and McQueen director Ian Bonhôte are among the first four directors to be selected. Rising actor/filmmakers Ray Panthaki and Nathaniel Martello-White have also signed up.
Further established and rising...
- 12/17/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Dickson Leach’s UK-China project is being produced by Christopher Granier-Deferre.
The Iffam Project Market (Ipm) has unveiled 14 films that will be presented during its event December 9-11.
They include the latest feature from UK director Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling), who will introduce her family drama Klepto, which is being produced by Christopher Granier-Deferre at Poisson Rouge Pictures and is a UK-China co-production.
Also on the list are South Korean director Song II-Kong’s romantic drama Love Song and the first fiction feature from documentary director Yan Ting Yuen, arthouse project Hong Kong Sister.
The event will run during...
The Iffam Project Market (Ipm) has unveiled 14 films that will be presented during its event December 9-11.
They include the latest feature from UK director Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling), who will introduce her family drama Klepto, which is being produced by Christopher Granier-Deferre at Poisson Rouge Pictures and is a UK-China co-production.
Also on the list are South Korean director Song II-Kong’s romantic drama Love Song and the first fiction feature from documentary director Yan Ting Yuen, arthouse project Hong Kong Sister.
The event will run during...
- 11/3/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Award is for a filmmaker screening their first or second feature at London Film Festival.
The BFI has announced three finalists for the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which comes with a £50,000 grant.
This year’s final three are: Richard Billingham, writer-director of Ray And Liz; Harry Wootliff, writer-director of Only You; and Nicole Taylor, writer of Wild Rose.
The award is designed ‘to support the future careers of exceptional new British film talent’; all three finalists will play at the upcoming BFI London Film Festival.
The winner will be announced on Tuesday October 9 at the Iwc gala dinner, chosen...
The BFI has announced three finalists for the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which comes with a £50,000 grant.
This year’s final three are: Richard Billingham, writer-director of Ray And Liz; Harry Wootliff, writer-director of Only You; and Nicole Taylor, writer of Wild Rose.
The award is designed ‘to support the future careers of exceptional new British film talent’; all three finalists will play at the upcoming BFI London Film Festival.
The winner will be announced on Tuesday October 9 at the Iwc gala dinner, chosen...
- 9/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Award is for a filmmaker screening their first or second feature at London Film Festival.
The BFI has announced three finalists for the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which comes with a £50,000 grant.
This year’s final three are: Richard Billingham, writer-director of Ray And Liz; Harry Wootliff, writer-director of Only You; and Nicole Taylor, writer of Wild Rose.
The award is designed ‘to support the future careers of exceptional new British film talent’; all three finalists will play at the upcoming BFI London Film Festival.
The winner will be announced on Tuesday October 9 at the Iwc gala dinner, chosen...
The BFI has announced three finalists for the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which comes with a £50,000 grant.
This year’s final three are: Richard Billingham, writer-director of Ray And Liz; Harry Wootliff, writer-director of Only You; and Nicole Taylor, writer of Wild Rose.
The award is designed ‘to support the future careers of exceptional new British film talent’; all three finalists will play at the upcoming BFI London Film Festival.
The winner will be announced on Tuesday October 9 at the Iwc gala dinner, chosen...
- 9/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Writer-director Richard Billingham (Ray & Liz), writer Nicole Taylor (Wild Rose) and writer-director Harry Wootliff (Only You) are the three names on the shortlist for the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award worth £50k ($65k), which the eponymous luxury watch brand gives in conjunction with the BFI.
Photographer and Turner Prize-nominated artist Billingham’s well-reviewed first feature Ray and Liz is based on his memories of his parents Ray and Liz, their relationship, and its impact on Richard and his younger brother Jason.
Taylor recently wrote drama series, Three Girls for BBC1, which won five BAFTAs including mini-series and writer: drama. Prior to that, she wrote The C Word, starring Sheridan Smith for BBC1, which was also BAFTA-
nominated. Wild Rose, which was snapped up by Neon out of Toronto, is about a young woman from Glasgow who wants to escape Scotland for Nashville where she dreams of making it as a country singer.
Photographer and Turner Prize-nominated artist Billingham’s well-reviewed first feature Ray and Liz is based on his memories of his parents Ray and Liz, their relationship, and its impact on Richard and his younger brother Jason.
Taylor recently wrote drama series, Three Girls for BBC1, which won five BAFTAs including mini-series and writer: drama. Prior to that, she wrote The C Word, starring Sheridan Smith for BBC1, which was also BAFTA-
nominated. Wild Rose, which was snapped up by Neon out of Toronto, is about a young woman from Glasgow who wants to escape Scotland for Nashville where she dreams of making it as a country singer.
- 9/20/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Protagonist boards project from Killer Films.
Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust And Bone), Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound) and Scoot McNairy (Argo) are lining up for The Sound Of Philadelphia, Jérémie Guez’s crime story set in the violent world of the Philadelphia mob.
Protagonist Pictures has boarded international sales ahead of Cannes. Endeavor Content is representing North America.
French writer-director Guez is plotting the project hot off the heels of his debut feature as a director, the thriller A Bluebird In My Heart, premiering at this year’s SXSW festival in Texas. He is most known as a crime novelist and screenwriter of films including Ares and Carnivores.
Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust And Bone), Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound) and Scoot McNairy (Argo) are lining up for The Sound Of Philadelphia, Jérémie Guez’s crime story set in the violent world of the Philadelphia mob.
Protagonist Pictures has boarded international sales ahead of Cannes. Endeavor Content is representing North America.
French writer-director Guez is plotting the project hot off the heels of his debut feature as a director, the thriller A Bluebird In My Heart, premiering at this year’s SXSW festival in Texas. He is most known as a crime novelist and screenwriter of films including Ares and Carnivores.
- 5/2/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Jack O’Connell (“Unbroken”) and Lily Collins (“Okja”) will star in “The Cradle” with shooting starting this summer.
Based on Patrick Somerville’s 2009 novel, the movie will follow a young couple, Matt (O’Connell) and Marissa (Collins), as they prepare for their first child. As the last-minute nerves set in, Matt is sent on a mission to find the cradle that Marrissa had as a baby. The journey he subsequently embarks upon changes their family forever.
Somerville, creator of the upcoming Amazon series ‘Maniac,’ co-wrote the screenplay with Hope Dickson Leach (“The Levelling”) who directs. Protagonist Pictures has boarded the project and will launch the script to buyers in Cannes. UTA and CAA will handle North American rights. Gail Mutrux and Tore Schmidt are producing the film for Pretty Pictures (“The Danish Girl”).
“When we read Patrick Somerville’s book ‘The Cradle,’ we immediately fell in love with his exquisitely...
Based on Patrick Somerville’s 2009 novel, the movie will follow a young couple, Matt (O’Connell) and Marissa (Collins), as they prepare for their first child. As the last-minute nerves set in, Matt is sent on a mission to find the cradle that Marrissa had as a baby. The journey he subsequently embarks upon changes their family forever.
Somerville, creator of the upcoming Amazon series ‘Maniac,’ co-wrote the screenplay with Hope Dickson Leach (“The Levelling”) who directs. Protagonist Pictures has boarded the project and will launch the script to buyers in Cannes. UTA and CAA will handle North American rights. Gail Mutrux and Tore Schmidt are producing the film for Pretty Pictures (“The Danish Girl”).
“When we read Patrick Somerville’s book ‘The Cradle,’ we immediately fell in love with his exquisitely...
- 4/30/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Jack O’Connell and Lily Collins are joining The Cradle from The Levelling director Hope Dickson Leach.
O’Connell and Collins will play a couple not ready to expect their first baby as they track down a childhood cradle, only to make a discovery that will change their family forever. Protagonist Pictures will launch the project to international buyers in Cannes.
UTA and CAA are handling North American rights. The Cradle is adapted from the 2009 novel by writer Patrick Somerville, who co-wrote the screenplay with Dickson Leach.
The producer credits are shared by Gail Mutrux and Tore Schmidt for Pretty Pictures....
O’Connell and Collins will play a couple not ready to expect their first baby as they track down a childhood cradle, only to make a discovery that will change their family forever. Protagonist Pictures will launch the project to international buyers in Cannes.
UTA and CAA are handling North American rights. The Cradle is adapted from the 2009 novel by writer Patrick Somerville, who co-wrote the screenplay with Dickson Leach.
The producer credits are shared by Gail Mutrux and Tore Schmidt for Pretty Pictures....
- 4/30/2018
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jack O’Connell and Lily Collins are jumping into The Cradle, a drama from The Levelling writer/director, Hope Dickson Leach. Protagonist Pictures has boarded the project and will launch the script to buyers in Cannes with a summer 2018 shoot eyed. UTA and CAA are handling North American rights.
Described as a highly emotional and life-affirming drama, The Cradle centers on Matt and Marissa who are expecting their first baby any minute — but Matt is having panic attacks and Marissa wants the nursery to be perfect. So perfect that she needs Matt to track down the cradle she had as an infant. To keep his pregnant wife happy, Matt hits the road unaware of what lies ahead. The discovery he makes, however, will change their family forever.
This is Dickson Leach’s second feature after The Levelling which premiered at Toronto in 2016 and nabbed a Scottish BAFTA for Best Writer...
Described as a highly emotional and life-affirming drama, The Cradle centers on Matt and Marissa who are expecting their first baby any minute — but Matt is having panic attacks and Marissa wants the nursery to be perfect. So perfect that she needs Matt to track down the cradle she had as an infant. To keep his pregnant wife happy, Matt hits the road unaware of what lies ahead. The discovery he makes, however, will change their family forever.
This is Dickson Leach’s second feature after The Levelling which premiered at Toronto in 2016 and nabbed a Scottish BAFTA for Best Writer...
- 4/30/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Protagonist Pictures launching project in Cannes.
Jack O’Connell (Starred Up) and Lily Collins (Mirror Mirror) will lead the cast of The Cradle for writer-director Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling).
Protagonist Pictures has boarded the project and will launch the script to buyers in Cannes. UTA and CAA handle North American rights.
O’Connell and Collins will play Matt and Marissa, a couple who are expecting their first baby. Both are unprepared – Matt is having panic attacks and Marissa wants the nursery to be so perfect that she asks Matt to track down the cradle she had herself as a baby.
Jack O’Connell (Starred Up) and Lily Collins (Mirror Mirror) will lead the cast of The Cradle for writer-director Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling).
Protagonist Pictures has boarded the project and will launch the script to buyers in Cannes. UTA and CAA handle North American rights.
O’Connell and Collins will play Matt and Marissa, a couple who are expecting their first baby. Both are unprepared – Matt is having panic attacks and Marissa wants the nursery to be so perfect that she asks Matt to track down the cradle she had herself as a baby.
- 4/30/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Jack O’Connell and Lily Collins are joining <em>The Cradle</em> from <em>The Levelling</em> director Hope Dickson Leach.
O’Connell and Collins will play a couple not ready to expect their first baby as they track down a childhood cradle, only to make a discovery that will change their family forever. Protagonist Pictures will launch the project to international buyers in Cannes.
UTA and CAA are handling North American rights. <em>The Cradle</em> is adapted from the 2009 novel by writer Patrick Somerville, who co-wrote the screenplay with Dickson Leach.
Somerville's next project is <em>Maniac</em>, a black comedy from Netflix and Cary Fukunaga, director of ...
O’Connell and Collins will play a couple not ready to expect their first baby as they track down a childhood cradle, only to make a discovery that will change their family forever. Protagonist Pictures will launch the project to international buyers in Cannes.
UTA and CAA are handling North American rights. <em>The Cradle</em> is adapted from the 2009 novel by writer Patrick Somerville, who co-wrote the screenplay with Dickson Leach.
Somerville's next project is <em>Maniac</em>, a black comedy from Netflix and Cary Fukunaga, director of ...
- 4/30/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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