Exclusive: IFC Films and Shudder have acquired North American rights to John Maclean’s survival thriller Tornado featuring Tim Roth, Slow Horses’ Jack Lowden and Japanese star Kōki.
The follow-up to 2015’s Slow West will stream exclusively on AMC streamer Shudder in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with a theatrical release through IFC Films.
Tornado stars Academy Award-winner Roth, Lowden, Takehiro Hira (Giri/Haji) and Japanese star Mitsuki Kimura, known as Kōki (Touch). Set in 1790s Britain, it follows the eponymous lead (Kōki), a young and determined Japanese woman who finds herself caught in a perilous situation when she and her father’s (Takehiro) travelling puppet Samurai show crosses paths with a gang of ruthless criminals led by Sugarman (Roth) and his ambitious son Little Sugar (Lowden). In an attempt to create a new life for herself, Tornado seizes the opportunity to take matters into her own...
The follow-up to 2015’s Slow West will stream exclusively on AMC streamer Shudder in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with a theatrical release through IFC Films.
Tornado stars Academy Award-winner Roth, Lowden, Takehiro Hira (Giri/Haji) and Japanese star Mitsuki Kimura, known as Kōki (Touch). Set in 1790s Britain, it follows the eponymous lead (Kōki), a young and determined Japanese woman who finds herself caught in a perilous situation when she and her father’s (Takehiro) travelling puppet Samurai show crosses paths with a gang of ruthless criminals led by Sugarman (Roth) and his ambitious son Little Sugar (Lowden). In an attempt to create a new life for herself, Tornado seizes the opportunity to take matters into her own...
- 2/8/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
UK actor Tim Roth has joined John Maclean’s survival thriller Tornado as principal photography gets underway in Scotland, with HanWay Films on board for sales.
Roth, whose credits include Pulp Fiction and TV series Tin Star, joins the previously announced cast of Slow Horses’ Jack Lowden, Giri/Haji’s Takehiro Hira and Koki, who will also appear in Baltasar Kormakur’s upcoming feature Touch.
Tornado has pre-sold in a raft of territories, including Lionsgate UK which has picked up UK and Ireland rights, The Jokers in France, September Films in Benelux, M2 in Central Europe, McF in former Yugoslavia,...
Roth, whose credits include Pulp Fiction and TV series Tin Star, joins the previously announced cast of Slow Horses’ Jack Lowden, Giri/Haji’s Takehiro Hira and Koki, who will also appear in Baltasar Kormakur’s upcoming feature Touch.
Tornado has pre-sold in a raft of territories, including Lionsgate UK which has picked up UK and Ireland rights, The Jokers in France, September Films in Benelux, M2 in Central Europe, McF in former Yugoslavia,...
- 1/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
First Look
U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has released a first look image of its new comedy series, “Big Mood” (working title), produced by Fremantle‘s Dancing Ledge Productions. The six-part series explores the intricacies of female friendship when confronted with the complexities of serious mental illness.
Starring in the show are Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West. Joining the ensemble cast are Niamh Cusack, Eamon Farren, Luke Fetherston, Kate Fleetwood, Rob Gilbert, Rebecca Lowman, Sally Phillips, Ukweli Roach, and Amalia Vitale. The cast also includes Olu Adaeze, Max Bennett, Skylar Betteridge, David Bedella, Tim Downie, Ron Donachie, Sarah Durham, Lara Grace Ilori, Neil Edmond, Amy Gledhill, Maddie Grace Jepson, Tom Rhys Harries, Layla-Belle Matthews, Simon Meacock, David Mumeni, David Newman, Freya Parker, Shuna Snow, Sid Sagar, Stephen Sobal, Lottie Tolhurst, Isobel Thom and Robin Weaver.
Joanna Page, best known for her roles in “Love Actually” and “Gavin and Stacey,” will make a guest appearance,...
U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has released a first look image of its new comedy series, “Big Mood” (working title), produced by Fremantle‘s Dancing Ledge Productions. The six-part series explores the intricacies of female friendship when confronted with the complexities of serious mental illness.
Starring in the show are Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West. Joining the ensemble cast are Niamh Cusack, Eamon Farren, Luke Fetherston, Kate Fleetwood, Rob Gilbert, Rebecca Lowman, Sally Phillips, Ukweli Roach, and Amalia Vitale. The cast also includes Olu Adaeze, Max Bennett, Skylar Betteridge, David Bedella, Tim Downie, Ron Donachie, Sarah Durham, Lara Grace Ilori, Neil Edmond, Amy Gledhill, Maddie Grace Jepson, Tom Rhys Harries, Layla-Belle Matthews, Simon Meacock, David Mumeni, David Newman, Freya Parker, Shuna Snow, Sid Sagar, Stephen Sobal, Lottie Tolhurst, Isobel Thom and Robin Weaver.
Joanna Page, best known for her roles in “Love Actually” and “Gavin and Stacey,” will make a guest appearance,...
- 4/26/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Speakers include BFI London Film Festival director Kristy Matheson, Film4’s Farhana Bhula and The British Blacklist’s Akua Gyamfi.
US producer Anthony Bregman, incoming BFI London Film Festival director Kristy Matheson and leading UK execs are among the speakers confirmed for the second edition of the Sundance Film Festival: London industry programme.
The Sundance Institute will once again be partnering with Picturehouse for this year’s event, which takes place at London’s Picturehouse Central from July 6-9.
Bregman will deliver the keynote talk. He premiered three features at the Sundance Film Festival in January: Flora And Son, Eileen and You Hurt My Feelings,...
US producer Anthony Bregman, incoming BFI London Film Festival director Kristy Matheson and leading UK execs are among the speakers confirmed for the second edition of the Sundance Film Festival: London industry programme.
The Sundance Institute will once again be partnering with Picturehouse for this year’s event, which takes place at London’s Picturehouse Central from July 6-9.
Bregman will deliver the keynote talk. He premiered three features at the Sundance Film Festival in January: Flora And Son, Eileen and You Hurt My Feelings,...
- 4/26/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Edinburgh’s industry programme runs from August 16-19.
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has unveiled its industry programme, running from August 16-19, including a repositioning of the Works in Progress strand as well as a raft of new training opportunities for curators and producers.
This year, the previously UK-focused Works in Progress strand will open up to include both documentary and fiction projects from Ukraine. With support from the British Council and in partnership with the Ukrainian Institute, four Ukrainian project teams will be welcomed to Edinburgh to present their work.
As part of this partnership, two Ukrainian feature films...
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has unveiled its industry programme, running from August 16-19, including a repositioning of the Works in Progress strand as well as a raft of new training opportunities for curators and producers.
This year, the previously UK-focused Works in Progress strand will open up to include both documentary and fiction projects from Ukraine. With support from the British Council and in partnership with the Ukrainian Institute, four Ukrainian project teams will be welcomed to Edinburgh to present their work.
As part of this partnership, two Ukrainian feature films...
- 7/28/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Eiff has also launched four new film curating initiatives.
The UK’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), which is running August 12-20, has unveiled four new film curating development programmes alongside six projects selected for its Talent Lab Connects.
Talent Lab Connects which launched in 2019 is open to Eiff Talent Lab alumni and their collaborators to develop a feature film or serial drama project. The event runs from April to December.
The six projects are: Robin Haig’s Drover’s Road, Kevin Pickering’s Before I Wake, Tessa Joffe’s Punzel, Jack King’s Sunburn, Lynsey Murdoch’s The Computer...
The UK’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), which is running August 12-20, has unveiled four new film curating development programmes alongside six projects selected for its Talent Lab Connects.
Talent Lab Connects which launched in 2019 is open to Eiff Talent Lab alumni and their collaborators to develop a feature film or serial drama project. The event runs from April to December.
The six projects are: Robin Haig’s Drover’s Road, Kevin Pickering’s Before I Wake, Tessa Joffe’s Punzel, Jack King’s Sunburn, Lynsey Murdoch’s The Computer...
- 4/5/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Eiff has also launched four new film curating inititaives.
The UK’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) which is running August 12 - 20. has unveiled four new film curating development programmes alongside six projects selected for its Talent Lab Connects.
Talent Lab Connects which launched in 2019 is open to Eiff Talent Lab alumni and their collaborators to develop a feature film or serial drama project. The event runs from April to December.
The six projects are: Robin Haig’s Drover’s Road, Kevin Pickering’s
Before I Wake, Tessa Joffe’s Punzel, Jack King’s Sunburn, Lynsey Murdoch’s The Computer,...
The UK’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) which is running August 12 - 20. has unveiled four new film curating development programmes alongside six projects selected for its Talent Lab Connects.
Talent Lab Connects which launched in 2019 is open to Eiff Talent Lab alumni and their collaborators to develop a feature film or serial drama project. The event runs from April to December.
The six projects are: Robin Haig’s Drover’s Road, Kevin Pickering’s
Before I Wake, Tessa Joffe’s Punzel, Jack King’s Sunburn, Lynsey Murdoch’s The Computer,...
- 4/5/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Since 2011, the Edinburgh Film Festival’s Talent Lab has nurtured a number of rising filmmakers through an assortment of masterclasses, workshops and individual mentoring sessions: Talents like Ben Sharrock (“Limbo”), Eva Riley (a recent winner BIFA winner for “Perfect 10”) and Rob Savage (“Host”) are alumni of the program. In 2019, however, the program yielded the Talent Lab Connects offshoot, in which a smaller selection of writers, directors and producers are given the chance to develop specific feature film or series projects with a range of industry mentors.
Now in its third year — and its second of the program taking place online — the program will be headed again by renowned U.K. script editor Kate Leys, whose recent credits include Simon Amstell’s “Benjamin,” Bart Layton’s “American Animals” and John Maclean’s “Slow West.”
Six projects have been selected for Talent Lab Connects:
“A Man at the Window”: Yorkshire-born...
Now in its third year — and its second of the program taking place online — the program will be headed again by renowned U.K. script editor Kate Leys, whose recent credits include Simon Amstell’s “Benjamin,” Bart Layton’s “American Animals” and John Maclean’s “Slow West.”
Six projects have been selected for Talent Lab Connects:
“A Man at the Window”: Yorkshire-born...
- 8/24/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Six projects include upcoming titles produced by Jack Tarling among others.
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has unveiled the six projects selected for its film and TV development programme, which will take place online for a second year.
The third edition of Talent Lab Connects (TLC) will run from April to December 2021 and includes script editing and mentoring support, with all workshops and mentoring taking place remotely due to pandemic restrictions.
Story editor Kate Leys will head up the group of industry mentors guiding the selected teams towards development of a feature film or serial drama project.
The six projects...
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has unveiled the six projects selected for its film and TV development programme, which will take place online for a second year.
The third edition of Talent Lab Connects (TLC) will run from April to December 2021 and includes script editing and mentoring support, with all workshops and mentoring taking place remotely due to pandemic restrictions.
Story editor Kate Leys will head up the group of industry mentors guiding the selected teams towards development of a feature film or serial drama project.
The six projects...
- 4/15/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Story editor Kate Leys will head up the programme.
Talent Lab Connects (TLC), Edinburgh International Film Festival’s development programme, will now take place online following the postponement of the festival due to the Covid-19 shutdown.
The programme of script editing and mentoring support for alumni of the festival’s Talent Lab will run from April to December 2020, with all workshops and mentoring taking place remotely.
Story editor Kate Leys will head up the group of industry mentors guiding the selected teams towards development of a feature film or serial drama project.
TLC launched last year, and is funded through the Scottish Government,...
Talent Lab Connects (TLC), Edinburgh International Film Festival’s development programme, will now take place online following the postponement of the festival due to the Covid-19 shutdown.
The programme of script editing and mentoring support for alumni of the festival’s Talent Lab will run from April to December 2020, with all workshops and mentoring taking place remotely.
Story editor Kate Leys will head up the group of industry mentors guiding the selected teams towards development of a feature film or serial drama project.
TLC launched last year, and is funded through the Scottish Government,...
- 4/23/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Story editor Kate Leys will head up the programme.
Talent Lab Connects (TLC), Edinburgh International Film Festival’s development programme, will now take place online following the postponement of the festival due to the Covid-19 shutdown.
The programme of script editing and mentoring support for alumni of the festival’s Talent Lab will run from April to December 2020, with all workshops and mentoring taking place remotely.
Story editor Kate Leys will head up the group of industry mentors guiding the selected teams towards development of a feature film or serial drama project.
TLC launched last year, and is funded through the Scottish Government,...
Talent Lab Connects (TLC), Edinburgh International Film Festival’s development programme, will now take place online following the postponement of the festival due to the Covid-19 shutdown.
The programme of script editing and mentoring support for alumni of the festival’s Talent Lab will run from April to December 2020, with all workshops and mentoring taking place remotely.
Story editor Kate Leys will head up the group of industry mentors guiding the selected teams towards development of a feature film or serial drama project.
TLC launched last year, and is funded through the Scottish Government,...
- 4/23/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Prebble is creator of the TV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl and is executive producer and writer for Emmy award-winning HBO drama Succession,
Writer Lucy Prebble has been awarded the 2019 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship at an event in London tonight (27 November).
Prebble is creator of the TV series Secret Diary Of A Call Girl and is executive producer and writer for Emmy award-winning HBO drama Succession. Her plays include A Very Expensive Poison, The Effect, Enron and The Sugar Syndrome.
The award gives a screenwriter a £30,000 grant to allow them to spend time researching the intersection between writing, health and science.
Writer Lucy Prebble has been awarded the 2019 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship at an event in London tonight (27 November).
Prebble is creator of the TV series Secret Diary Of A Call Girl and is executive producer and writer for Emmy award-winning HBO drama Succession. Her plays include A Very Expensive Poison, The Effect, Enron and The Sugar Syndrome.
The award gives a screenwriter a £30,000 grant to allow them to spend time researching the intersection between writing, health and science.
- 11/27/2019
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
Secret Diary Of A Call Girl creator and Succession executive producer-writer Lucy Prebble has been awarded the 2019 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship, given in partnership with the BFI and Film4.
Now in its seventh year, the UK fellowship awards a screenwriter £30,000 to explore the intersection between screenwriting, health and science. It provides a year-long tailored experience with access to scientific and humanities research.
The 2019 selection committee was chaired by Kate Leys (script editor) with Lizzie Francke (BFI exec), Lauren Dark (Film4 exec), Iain Dodgeon (Okre) and Simon Chaplin (Wellcome).
Prebble commented, “I am so thrilled to be awarded the Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship. It has been given to some brilliant artists and I am honoured to be in their company. I have always been a research-hungry writer and I am delighted to be offered such a generous opportunity to feed that. The Wellcome Collection is exactly the sort of place and resource I...
Now in its seventh year, the UK fellowship awards a screenwriter £30,000 to explore the intersection between screenwriting, health and science. It provides a year-long tailored experience with access to scientific and humanities research.
The 2019 selection committee was chaired by Kate Leys (script editor) with Lizzie Francke (BFI exec), Lauren Dark (Film4 exec), Iain Dodgeon (Okre) and Simon Chaplin (Wellcome).
Prebble commented, “I am so thrilled to be awarded the Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship. It has been given to some brilliant artists and I am honoured to be in their company. I have always been a research-hungry writer and I am delighted to be offered such a generous opportunity to feed that. The Wellcome Collection is exactly the sort of place and resource I...
- 11/27/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
I Am Not A Witch director Rungano Nyoni has been awarded the UK’s Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship at an event in London.
The award, given in partnership with the BFI and Film4, is worth $38,000 and is designed to help the recipient explore screenwriting subjects involving science, health and the human condition. The Wellcome Collection, a medical and cultural institution in London, also makes its resources, research and facilities available to the recipient.
The Welsh-Zambian writer and director’s debut feature I Am Not a Witch premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and Nyoni went on to win the BAFTA award for Outstanding Debut for a British Writer, Director or Producer. Film4 and BFI were among the film’s backers.
The Fellowship is chaired by script editor Kate Leys; Lizzie Francke, Senior Development and Production Executive at the BFI; Lauren Dark, Commissioning Executive, Film4; Imran Khan, Head of Public Engagement, Wellcome; Iain Dodgeon,...
The award, given in partnership with the BFI and Film4, is worth $38,000 and is designed to help the recipient explore screenwriting subjects involving science, health and the human condition. The Wellcome Collection, a medical and cultural institution in London, also makes its resources, research and facilities available to the recipient.
The Welsh-Zambian writer and director’s debut feature I Am Not a Witch premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and Nyoni went on to win the BAFTA award for Outstanding Debut for a British Writer, Director or Producer. Film4 and BFI were among the film’s backers.
The Fellowship is chaired by script editor Kate Leys; Lizzie Francke, Senior Development and Production Executive at the BFI; Lauren Dark, Commissioning Executive, Film4; Imran Khan, Head of Public Engagement, Wellcome; Iain Dodgeon,...
- 11/21/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Previous recipients include Michaela Coel and Carol Morley.
Rungano Nyoni has been awarded the 2018 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship at an event in London.
The Fellowship presents a screenwriter with a £30,000 grant to allow them to spend time researching the intersection between writing, health and science.
As part of the award, Nyoni will also receive access to Wellcome’s science and humanities resources, including accessing research, meeting with leaders in the fields of science and medical history, visiting clinical centres, and entry to the Wellcome Collection.
The Fellowship is presented by charitable foundation Wellcome in partnership with the BFI and Film4.
Nyoni...
Rungano Nyoni has been awarded the 2018 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship at an event in London.
The Fellowship presents a screenwriter with a £30,000 grant to allow them to spend time researching the intersection between writing, health and science.
As part of the award, Nyoni will also receive access to Wellcome’s science and humanities resources, including accessing research, meeting with leaders in the fields of science and medical history, visiting clinical centres, and entry to the Wellcome Collection.
The Fellowship is presented by charitable foundation Wellcome in partnership with the BFI and Film4.
Nyoni...
- 11/21/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Previous recipients include Michaela Coel and Carol Morley.
Rungano Nyoni has been awarded the 2018 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship at an event in London.
The Fellowship presents a screenwriter with a £30,000 grant to allow them to spend time researching the intersection between writing, health and science.
As part of the award, Nyoni will also receive access to Wellcome’s science and humanities resources, including accessing research, meeting with leaders in the fields of science and medical history, visiting clinical centres, and entry to the Wellcome Collection.
The Fellowship is presented by charitable foundation Wellcome in partnership with the BFI and Film4.
Nyoni...
Rungano Nyoni has been awarded the 2018 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship at an event in London.
The Fellowship presents a screenwriter with a £30,000 grant to allow them to spend time researching the intersection between writing, health and science.
As part of the award, Nyoni will also receive access to Wellcome’s science and humanities resources, including accessing research, meeting with leaders in the fields of science and medical history, visiting clinical centres, and entry to the Wellcome Collection.
The Fellowship is presented by charitable foundation Wellcome in partnership with the BFI and Film4.
Nyoni...
- 11/21/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Want to get your short film script made? Bath Film Festival makes this and an IMDb New Filmmaker Award available.
Bath Film Festival’s 28th film festival will be 1–11 November 2018.
Though it is closed for 2018 submissions, the idea behind the IMDb Script to Screen Award is simple: anyone can submit a script for a short film with a running time of 10 minutes or under. Entries are then read and discussed by a panel from the creative writing team at Bath Spa University.
Five scripts are shortlisted and performed in June by Bath Spa’s drama students in front of our industry judges and a live audience. Both the judges and the audience vote for the best script and the winner receives £5000 cash and £1000 worth of hire kit from Visual Impact (UK filmmakers only) to turn their script into a film. Plus, the winner receives a coveted IMDb Enamel Badge and prestigious glass-etched award.
Bath Film Festival’s 28th film festival will be 1–11 November 2018.
Though it is closed for 2018 submissions, the idea behind the IMDb Script to Screen Award is simple: anyone can submit a script for a short film with a running time of 10 minutes or under. Entries are then read and discussed by a panel from the creative writing team at Bath Spa University.
Five scripts are shortlisted and performed in June by Bath Spa’s drama students in front of our industry judges and a live audience. Both the judges and the audience vote for the best script and the winner receives £5000 cash and £1000 worth of hire kit from Visual Impact (UK filmmakers only) to turn their script into a film. Plus, the winner receives a coveted IMDb Enamel Badge and prestigious glass-etched award.
- 8/18/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
“Lucy was a pioneer in making scriptwriting accessible.”
Lucy Scher, who co-ran UK screenwriting talent incubator The Script Factory from 1996, has died at the age of 53.
Scher joined the organisation a few months after its founding by Charlotte Macleod and helped develop it into a vital part of the UK’s screenwriting development scene, training more than a thousand emerging writers and developers and attracting funding successively from the UK Film Council, Skillset and Creative Europe.
Her colleagues at The Script Factory over the years included Briony Hanson, now director of film at the British Council, and Tricia Tuttle, now...
Lucy Scher, who co-ran UK screenwriting talent incubator The Script Factory from 1996, has died at the age of 53.
Scher joined the organisation a few months after its founding by Charlotte Macleod and helped develop it into a vital part of the UK’s screenwriting development scene, training more than a thousand emerging writers and developers and attracting funding successively from the UK Film Council, Skillset and Creative Europe.
Her colleagues at The Script Factory over the years included Briony Hanson, now director of film at the British Council, and Tricia Tuttle, now...
- 8/2/2018
- by Charles Gant
- ScreenDaily
Happy Valley writer wins fellowship aimed at bringing the film and science industries closer together.
BAFTA award-winning writer, producer and director Sally Wainwright, known for TV dramas Happy Valley and Last Tango In Halifax, has been awarded the 2016 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship in partnership with BFI and Film4.
Currently in its fourth year, the annual award gives screenwriters the opportunity to develop stories for the screen which explore the impact of science and health on daily life.
For the first time in 2016, the fellowship was opened to individuals working in television as well as film. Wainwright was selected for the award from over 100 names across the film and television industries.
The fellowship carries an endowment of £30,000 ($24,000) along with a year-long programme including introductions to leaders in the science and medical fields, access to Henry Wellcome’s library, visits to medical research institutions and access to contemporary science research trials.
On receiving the award, Wainwright said: “It...
BAFTA award-winning writer, producer and director Sally Wainwright, known for TV dramas Happy Valley and Last Tango In Halifax, has been awarded the 2016 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship in partnership with BFI and Film4.
Currently in its fourth year, the annual award gives screenwriters the opportunity to develop stories for the screen which explore the impact of science and health on daily life.
For the first time in 2016, the fellowship was opened to individuals working in television as well as film. Wainwright was selected for the award from over 100 names across the film and television industries.
The fellowship carries an endowment of £30,000 ($24,000) along with a year-long programme including introductions to leaders in the science and medical fields, access to Henry Wellcome’s library, visits to medical research institutions and access to contemporary science research trials.
On receiving the award, Wainwright said: “It...
- 11/23/2016
- ScreenDaily
Guy Pearce and Dakota Fanning star alongside Game Of Thrones co-stars Kit Harrington and Carice van Houten.
Brimstone director Martin Koolhoven says that his producer Els Vandevorst (Francofonia) has “balls of steel.”
Listen to Vandevorst’s own account of her seven year journey to guide Koolhoven’s €12m revenge western to screen and you quickly get a sense of what he means.
Koolhoven first started talking about the project (starring Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Carice van Houten and Kit Harington) when he was making his Dutch language Second World War film, Winter In Wartime (2008). At the time, Vandevorst warned him that he was too busy with his current projects to devote any time to it.
Winter In Wartime was a box office hit in the Netherlands but didn’t have the international festival exposure that the filmmakers had hoped. However, Vandevorst encouraged the director to be as ambitious as possible. She and the...
Brimstone director Martin Koolhoven says that his producer Els Vandevorst (Francofonia) has “balls of steel.”
Listen to Vandevorst’s own account of her seven year journey to guide Koolhoven’s €12m revenge western to screen and you quickly get a sense of what he means.
Koolhoven first started talking about the project (starring Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Carice van Houten and Kit Harington) when he was making his Dutch language Second World War film, Winter In Wartime (2008). At the time, Vandevorst warned him that he was too busy with his current projects to devote any time to it.
Winter In Wartime was a box office hit in the Netherlands but didn’t have the international festival exposure that the filmmakers had hoped. However, Vandevorst encouraged the director to be as ambitious as possible. She and the...
- 9/2/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Guy Pearce and Dakota Fanning star alongside Game Of Thrones co-stars Kit Harrington and Carice van Houten.
Brimstone director Martin Koolhoven says that his producer Els Vandevorst (Francofonia) has “balls of steel.”
Listen to Vandevorst’s own account of her seven year journey to guide Koolhoven’s €12m revenge western to screen and you quickly get a sense of what he means.
Koolhoven first started talking about the project (starring Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Carice van Houten and Kit Harington) when he was making his Dutch language Second World War film, Winter In Wartime (2008). At the time, Vandevorst warned him that he was too busy with his current projects to devote any time to it.
Winter In Wartime was a box office hit in the Netherlands but didn’t have the international festival exposure that the filmmakers had hoped. However, Vandevorst encouraged the director to be as ambitious as possible. She and the...
Brimstone director Martin Koolhoven says that his producer Els Vandevorst (Francofonia) has “balls of steel.”
Listen to Vandevorst’s own account of her seven year journey to guide Koolhoven’s €12m revenge western to screen and you quickly get a sense of what he means.
Koolhoven first started talking about the project (starring Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Carice van Houten and Kit Harington) when he was making his Dutch language Second World War film, Winter In Wartime (2008). At the time, Vandevorst warned him that he was too busy with his current projects to devote any time to it.
Winter In Wartime was a box office hit in the Netherlands but didn’t have the international festival exposure that the filmmakers had hoped. However, Vandevorst encouraged the director to be as ambitious as possible. She and the...
- 9/2/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Opportunities available for new and emerging filmmakers, and pitching sessions among programme.
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has announced the line-up for this year’s Industry Programme, which will run for nine days from June 16-24, as well as Eiff’s Talent Development Programmes.
The programme will include workshops, practical sessions, talent labs and one-to-one meetings with industry experts, all of which will take place at the Eiff Delegate Centre at the Traverse Theatre.
Programme highlights include two sessions hosted by the BFI Net.Work looking at opportunities available for new and emerging filmmakers across the UK, offering tips from execs and filmmakers on how to make the best short film on a short film budget.
Script consultant David Pope will deliver a pitching workshop with advice on how to develop confidence and how to tailor a pitch for an audience, followed by the chance for filmmakers to pitch to a panel of industry experts.
Prs...
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has announced the line-up for this year’s Industry Programme, which will run for nine days from June 16-24, as well as Eiff’s Talent Development Programmes.
The programme will include workshops, practical sessions, talent labs and one-to-one meetings with industry experts, all of which will take place at the Eiff Delegate Centre at the Traverse Theatre.
Programme highlights include two sessions hosted by the BFI Net.Work looking at opportunities available for new and emerging filmmakers across the UK, offering tips from execs and filmmakers on how to make the best short film on a short film budget.
Script consultant David Pope will deliver a pitching workshop with advice on how to develop confidence and how to tailor a pitch for an audience, followed by the chance for filmmakers to pitch to a panel of industry experts.
Prs...
- 5/20/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Prize gives film-maker £30,000 ($45,000) and open access to Wellcome Trust scientists and research.
Carol Morley, writer-director of The Falling and Dreams Of A Life, has been named as the recipient of the 2015 Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Fellowship, in partnership with BFI and Film4. Morley receives an award of £30,000 ($45,000) together with access to Wellcome Trust’s world-renowned scientists, labs and research.
Morley follows in the footsteps of previous Fellowship recipients Clio Barnard (2013) and Jonathan Glazer (2014).
Receiving her award at the annual party at the Wellcome Collection, Morley said: “The Fellowship is a dream come true. As well as continuing my interest in aberrations of human behaviour that stem from the mind or the brain, I am looking forward to exploring new areas and stepping into the unknown.
“This Fellowship will have a significant and lasting impact on the way I see the world and on my future films.”
Now in its third year, the initiative...
Carol Morley, writer-director of The Falling and Dreams Of A Life, has been named as the recipient of the 2015 Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Fellowship, in partnership with BFI and Film4. Morley receives an award of £30,000 ($45,000) together with access to Wellcome Trust’s world-renowned scientists, labs and research.
Morley follows in the footsteps of previous Fellowship recipients Clio Barnard (2013) and Jonathan Glazer (2014).
Receiving her award at the annual party at the Wellcome Collection, Morley said: “The Fellowship is a dream come true. As well as continuing my interest in aberrations of human behaviour that stem from the mind or the brain, I am looking forward to exploring new areas and stepping into the unknown.
“This Fellowship will have a significant and lasting impact on the way I see the world and on my future films.”
Now in its third year, the initiative...
- 11/26/2015
- by matt.mueller@screendaily.com (Matt Mueller)
- ScreenDaily
With the release of Slow West, writer John Maclean chats to us about the premiere, and celebrating by getting a dental check up...
One of the finest films of the year thus far is the western Slow West. It's in cinemas now, and we had the chance to chat with its writer and director, John Maclean, about the movie...
Can we talk about what release day is like? That we're talking on the day your movie is finally getting a UK release. What feelings are going through you?
For a start, it feels like a bigger release than I expected. Thanks to Lionsgate, it's really gone out there. You're never really sure. But the posters on the tube, and the Q&As, it felt like it was really building up nicely. It feels great today. Then I've invited a lot of friends to a screening tonight, it feels like an unofficial premiere!
One of the finest films of the year thus far is the western Slow West. It's in cinemas now, and we had the chance to chat with its writer and director, John Maclean, about the movie...
Can we talk about what release day is like? That we're talking on the day your movie is finally getting a UK release. What feelings are going through you?
For a start, it feels like a bigger release than I expected. Thanks to Lionsgate, it's really gone out there. You're never really sure. But the posters on the tube, and the Q&As, it felt like it was really building up nicely. It feels great today. Then I've invited a lot of friends to a screening tonight, it feels like an unofficial premiere!
- 6/30/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: A crime farce, prison drama, Highland thriller and fantastical love story among titles.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has confirmed the feature film projects and filmmaking teams who will be participating in the fourth year of development and mentoring programme Eiff Network.
The Network participants are:
writer/director John Addis and producer Sukey Richardson with their crime farce Deadbeat;
screenwriter Brian Martin and his prison based drama Inside;
screenwriter Nat Luurtsema, director Isabelle Sieb and producer Diarmuid Hughes with their black comedy drama Poppy;
writer/director Iain Mitchell with his highland thriller Keeper;
screenwriter Melissa Iqbal with her science fiction thriller The Ark;
screenwriter Line Langebek and director Samantha Harrie with the fantastical love story When I Could Fly.
The initiative is run in partnership with story editor Kate Leys and supported by the Creative Skillset Film Skills Fund and Creative Scotland. Network aims to connect filmmaking teams with industry as they develop feature projects...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has confirmed the feature film projects and filmmaking teams who will be participating in the fourth year of development and mentoring programme Eiff Network.
The Network participants are:
writer/director John Addis and producer Sukey Richardson with their crime farce Deadbeat;
screenwriter Brian Martin and his prison based drama Inside;
screenwriter Nat Luurtsema, director Isabelle Sieb and producer Diarmuid Hughes with their black comedy drama Poppy;
writer/director Iain Mitchell with his highland thriller Keeper;
screenwriter Melissa Iqbal with her science fiction thriller The Ark;
screenwriter Line Langebek and director Samantha Harrie with the fantastical love story When I Could Fly.
The initiative is run in partnership with story editor Kate Leys and supported by the Creative Skillset Film Skills Fund and Creative Scotland. Network aims to connect filmmaking teams with industry as they develop feature projects...
- 6/3/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: A crime farce, prison drama, Highland thriller and fantastical love story among titles.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has confirmed the feature film projects and filmmaking teams who will be participating in the fourth year of development and mentoring programme Eiff Network.
The Network participants are:
writer/director John Addis and producer Sukey Richardson with their crime farce Deadbeat;
screenwriter Brian Martin and his prison based drama Inside;
screenwriter Nat Luurtsema, director Isabelle Sieb and producer Diarmuid Hughes with their black comedy drama Poppy;
writer/director Iain Mitchell with his highland thriller Keeper;
screenwriter Melissa Iqbal with her science fiction thriller The Ark;
screenwriter Line Langebek and director Samantha Harrie with the fantastical love story When I Could Fly.
The initiative is run in partnership with story editor Kate Leys and supported by the Creative Skillset Film Skills Fund and Creative Scotland. Network aims to connect filmmaking teams with industry as they develop feature projects...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has confirmed the feature film projects and filmmaking teams who will be participating in the fourth year of development and mentoring programme Eiff Network.
The Network participants are:
writer/director John Addis and producer Sukey Richardson with their crime farce Deadbeat;
screenwriter Brian Martin and his prison based drama Inside;
screenwriter Nat Luurtsema, director Isabelle Sieb and producer Diarmuid Hughes with their black comedy drama Poppy;
writer/director Iain Mitchell with his highland thriller Keeper;
screenwriter Melissa Iqbal with her science fiction thriller The Ark;
screenwriter Line Langebek and director Samantha Harrie with the fantastical love story When I Could Fly.
The initiative is run in partnership with story editor Kate Leys and supported by the Creative Skillset Film Skills Fund and Creative Scotland. Network aims to connect filmmaking teams with industry as they develop feature projects...
- 6/3/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Binger Filmlab may have lost its Government funding (once worth €1.8m a year) but the Amsterdam-based film training and development centre is still as active as ever.
The resilient Binger CEO Gamila Ylstra has been striking a defiant note about the future of Binger, which has changed its financing model since it lost its Ministry Of Culture subsidy. Binger is currently operating on roughly half its former budget.
“We have been able to cut costs dramatically just by working a bit efficiently than before,” Ylstra noted.
“The subsidy stopped more than a year ago. It has not been easy, of course, but I think we’ve done a better Binger year than ever before.”
At the International Film Festival Rotterdam this week, Binger has announced details of a new partnership with Rio de Janeiro’s State Secretariat of Culture. Through the partnership, the Rio cultural body will pay fees for Brazilian writers and directors chosen to take...
The resilient Binger CEO Gamila Ylstra has been striking a defiant note about the future of Binger, which has changed its financing model since it lost its Ministry Of Culture subsidy. Binger is currently operating on roughly half its former budget.
“We have been able to cut costs dramatically just by working a bit efficiently than before,” Ylstra noted.
“The subsidy stopped more than a year ago. It has not been easy, of course, but I think we’ve done a better Binger year than ever before.”
At the International Film Festival Rotterdam this week, Binger has announced details of a new partnership with Rio de Janeiro’s State Secretariat of Culture. Through the partnership, the Rio cultural body will pay fees for Brazilian writers and directors chosen to take...
- 1/28/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Established figures in the industry are getting together in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to run workshops for our future Spielbergs
BBC Salford job opportunities have been massively over-subscribed, but here is another opportunity for creative northern talent. Northern Film and Media in Newcastle upon Tyne has partnered-up with Channel 4 in a pilot programme for would-be creators of TV programmes and/or films.
They're calling it The Artist's Cut and acknowledge that the success of films by directors such as Gillian Wearing, Sam Taylor-Wood and Steve McQueen (namesake of the legend) has influenced the idea. The plan is to run workshops aimed at producing two pieces of work which could go on for filming; these will cover pretty much everything the would-be Spielberg needs to know, from storytelling through cinematography, casting, directing and distribution to marketing methods.
Wearing, who won the 1997 Turner Prize, received investment from Nfm for Self Made, her directorial debut...
BBC Salford job opportunities have been massively over-subscribed, but here is another opportunity for creative northern talent. Northern Film and Media in Newcastle upon Tyne has partnered-up with Channel 4 in a pilot programme for would-be creators of TV programmes and/or films.
They're calling it The Artist's Cut and acknowledge that the success of films by directors such as Gillian Wearing, Sam Taylor-Wood and Steve McQueen (namesake of the legend) has influenced the idea. The plan is to run workshops aimed at producing two pieces of work which could go on for filming; these will cover pretty much everything the would-be Spielberg needs to know, from storytelling through cinematography, casting, directing and distribution to marketing methods.
Wearing, who won the 1997 Turner Prize, received investment from Nfm for Self Made, her directorial debut...
- 2/8/2012
- by Martin Wainwright
- The Guardian - Film News
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