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BFI Press & Industry
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Welcome to @BFI_Industry , our dedicated channel bringing you the latest news on all our #BFIindustry activities across the UK and beyond, as well as announcements and industry insights from the BFI For press enquiries visit:
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Announced: two exciting appointments to our new Executive Director Board. Arike Oke ( @Arike_Oke ) and Jason Wood ( @jwoodfilm ) will join us in 2022 as Executive Directors of Knowledge and Collections, and Public Programmes & Audiences respectively
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We’re proud to launch Future Takes in partnership with @Film4 ! We’re seeking applications for ambitious short form work from UK filmmaking talent, awarding up to £90,000 each to up to 7 projects. Apply by 13 Feb. #NationalLottery @BFINetwork
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Announced: The BFI will once again fully operate and programme BFI IMAX from 19 July 2022, joining BFI Southbank as a flagship BFI cinema venue in London
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We're delighted to announce that Kristy Matheson is joining us as the new BFI Festivals Director, leading on #LFF 2023 and @BFIFlare from 2024.
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BFI NETWORK alumni @lunacarmoon premieres her fierce and uncompromising debut feature Hoard at #LFF tonight - starring Saura Lightfoot Leon, Joseph Quinn and Hayley Squires. #BFIBacked #NationalLottery funded @BBCFilm @ErebusPictures
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We're proud to greenlight nine ambitious high-budget shorts via Future Takes, in partnership with @Film4Production . Awards of up to £90k aim to provide a vital stepping-stone to exciting and dynamic creative talent across the UK. #NationalLottery @bfinetwork
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Best wishes to #BFIBacked The End We Start From which world premieres at #TIFF23 today! The debut feature from director @MahaliaBelo , starring Jodie Comer, will also screen next month at #LFF . #NationalLottery funded
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'Jodie [Comer] is a very nuanced actor who is constantly seeking the truth.' Ahead of its #LFF UK premiere, @MahaliaBelo discussed her #BFIBacked feature debut The End We Start From with producer Leah Clarke, casting director Shaheen Baig & costume designer PC Williams.
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Congratulations to the #BFIBacked Aftersun and An Irish Goodbye on their wins this evening. We're proud to support independent filmmakers with #NationalLottery funding. #EEBAFTAs
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We're delighted to announce the final appointment to the BFI’s new Executive Director Board. Neil Williams ( @NeillyNeil ) will join us as Executive Director of Technology & Transformation in 2022
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We're delighted that  @MahaliaBelo 's #BFIBacked debut feature will have world premiere at #TIFF23 ! Adapted by Alice Birch from the novel of the same name, The End We Start From stars Jodie Comer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Katherine Waterston and Mark Strong. #NationalLottery Funded
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TIFF
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Jodie Comer is a mother. The World Premiere of @MahaliaBelo ’s THE END WE START FROM follows a new mother as she navigates the English countryside after cataclysmic flooding drives her out of London, in this adaptation of Megan Hunter’s bestseller. #TIFF23
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Are you an emerging film critic? We're looking for six underrepresented voices in film criticism to take part in the 2022 #LFF critics mentorship programme. Apply by Fri 12 Aug
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We’re excited to announce the acquisition of SCALA!!! for release in the UK & Ireland. Directed by Jane Giles & @AliCatterall , their feature debut tells the riotous inside story of London’s legendary @ScalaCinema , 1978-1993. Backed by the BFI @TheDocSociety Fund…
@Screendaily
Screen International
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Exclusive: ‘SCALA!!!’, a documentary about the iconic London cinema, scores UK-Ireland theatrical release through @BFI
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We're delighted that Ruben Östlund's Triangle of Sadness has been awarded the #Cannes2022 Palme d'or! Congrats to UK producer Mike Goodridge and the whole team. Proudly BFI-backed with #NationalLottery funding
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Announced: BFI awards £15.2m of #NationalLottery funding to 11 UK-wide partners over three years, to grow cinema audiences, support talent development and engage young people with screen culture across the UK.
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📣 The new #ScreenBusiness 2021 report launched today shows UK screen tax reliefs have supported record growth in the UK, generating £13.48bn GVA for the UK economy and creating 219,000 jobs
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We’re proud to partner with @diversencannes to present 'Celebrating Black Women in International Film', a curated programme of events and networking at #Cannes2023 , and supporting a delegation of four UK Black female filmmakers to attend the festival.
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BFI Press & Industry
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👀 Behind the scenes at the #LFF press conference for opening film The Harder They Fall With director @Jeymes Samuel, actors @IdrisElba , @ReginaKing & Jonathan Majors, producer James Lassister, BFI CEO @BFIBen , BFI Festivals Director @TriciaTuttle & #LFF programer @GraceSimone
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BFI Press & Industry
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#LFF 2022 press & industry accreditation is now open! Get access to - In-person and digital screenings - Networking drinks and socials - Panels and talks - Discounted tickets to LFF Expanded & more Register today and save with our early bird offer
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Congrats to the filmmakers, cast & crew ahead of the world premiere of #BFIBacked Hoard today at Venice Critics' Week in competition. From writer-director @lunacarmoon , starring Saura Lightfoot Leon & Joseph Quinn. #SIC38 #NationalLottery funded
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20 UK-based producers have been selected for the first ever #UKGlobalScreenFund Co-production Weekender @HOME_mcr , taking participants through the essentials of putting a film or TV co-production together @DCMS #HereForCulture
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BFI Press & Industry
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We’re proud to support new filmmaking talent whose work is creating 'a fully-fledged new wave’ of UK filmmaking. Great to see four #BFIBacked films featured here, including #LFF First Feature Competition titles Hoard & In Camera. #NationalLottery funded
@guardianculture
Guardian culture
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Great new British directors: five acclaimed debut films to watch
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We had 4 world premieres at #LFF today! - If the Streets Were on Fire - Name Me Lawand - Klokkenluider - My Father’s Dragon
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Congrats to the #BFIBacked Aftersun on its 4 nominations at this #EEBAFTAs , including Outstanding British Film!
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Introducing this year’s #LFF Critics Mentorship programme cohort! L-R: Akua Gyamfi (co-lead mentor), Ellis Lamai, Nathan Hardie, Nila Varman, Grace Eshel, Jethro Robathan, Ibrahim Azam and Amon Warmann (co-lead mentor)
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The #UKGlobalScreenFund has made a further 25 awards totalling £2.1m, supporting UK companies across film, TV, animation & games to enhance their international activities @DCMS #HereForCulture
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The 65th BFI London Film Festival draws to a close after reaching an in person and digital audience of 291k over 12 days. Check out our end of #LFF roundup for the full story on the festival.
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★★★★ @Guardian calls Kathryn Ferguson's #BFIBacked doc Nothing Compares, now in cinemas, "a bracing guide to a brilliant individual who declined to conform." Supported by the BFI @TheDocSociety Fund #NationalLottery
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The evaluation for the 3 year BFI Young Audiences Content Fund (YACF) reveals it delivered high quality content for young audiences, supported 61 new commissions and had significant positive social and economic impact. Managed by the BFI, funded by @DCMS .
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Only a few weeks left to apply to Future Takes in partnership with @Film4 . We’re seeking applications for ambitious & original short form work from UK filmmaking talent, awarding up to £90,000 each to up to 7 projects. #NationalLottery @BFINetwork
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We're awarding up to £150,000 to UK screen organisations & production companies seeking to create and run development labs for feature or immersive projects! Find out more about the BFI Creative Challenge Fund and apply by Tue 5 Dec #NationalLottery
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We’re renewing our call for change for Disabled talent in the screen industries! This year, our #PressReset campaign focuses on recognising and rejecting ableism #EndAbleism
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We’re looking for original live action or animated feature projects by debut directors. If you have a fully developed script and a team with an established creative track record, check out the BFI Discovery Fund. Opens Mon 17 Jul. #NationalLottery funded
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Congrats to #BFIBacked Hoard on its incredible Venice Critics’ Week wins! #SIC38 Catch @LunaCarmoon ’s debut feature at #LFF in October. #NationalLottery funded
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Helen Simmons ✨
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Wow - what a crazy end to the most amazing week. HOARD has won 3 awards at Venice @SicVeneziaSNCCI 🥺💥😮 So proud of you @LunaCarmoon and the entire cast and team. What a journey!
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Congratulations to @Mark_Jenkin as his new film Enys Men has been selected for #Cannes2022 Directors’ Fortnight! Enys Men has received backing from the #UKGlobalScreenFund , and BFI Distribution were proud to release the BAFTA-winning Bait in 2019 @DCMS #HereForCulture
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We're thrilled that award-winning writer, director & producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge will lead the judging panel for the @IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with the BFI, alongside BFI CEO Ben Roberts. #LFFAwards
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Coming June 2023: BFI Film on Film Festival will be the first film festival in the UK dedicated to screening works solely on film, spanning film formats including 16mm, 35mm and 70mm as well as rare nitrate
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So thrilled for Molly Manning Walker and the team as the fantastic How To Have Sex wins the Un Certain Regard Award at #Cannes2023 #BFIBacked , awarding #NationalLottery funding @Film4Production @maamw
@mubi
MUBI
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Molly Manning Walker's stunning directorial debut HOW TO HAVE SEX has won the top prize in #Cannes2023 's Un Certain Regard! 🏆 Coming soon to the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Italy, Turkey, Netherlands, Latin America & more. A MUBI Release.
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Announced: the BFI appoints @ClareEBaines in the newly created role of Disability Equality Lead, furthering the BFI’s ambitions to open up access for disabled people across the screen industries, in cinemas and internally at the BFI
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BFI Press & Industry
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Calling UK film producers! The BFI will support a delegation of up to 16 producers to attend a special programme at this year’s @FilmFestMunich , taking place from 28 Jun - 1 Jul. Find out more and apply by 12 May
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The 2023 BFI & @CHANEL Filmmaker Awards winners Savanah Leaf, Ella Glendining and Nadira Murray with jury members Tilda Swinton and Ben Roberts. Read more Photo: Oliver Holms
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Announced: Louise Ortega ( @ortegacheast ) joins the BFI Film Fund as Senior Production & Development Executive.
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Exciting news for #BFIBacked debut Hoard - Alpha Violet acquires world sales rights to @LunaCarmoon ’s Venice Critics’ Week title. #NationalLottery funded
@Screendaily
Screen International
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Exclusive: @LunaCarmoon 's ‘Hoard’ starring Saura Lightfoot Leon, Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires scores worldwide sales deal
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Today the BFI publishes the Economic Review of UK Independent Film, examining the significant and rapidly increasing challenges being faced by UK independent films in production, distribution and exhibition to audiences.
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BFI Press & Industry
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#BFIBacked Rye Lane has its world premiere at #Sundance tonight! Congrats to the filmmakers, cast and crew, including @RaineAM , @NathanBryon , @tommelia , @yisimeme , Damian Jones, @davidjonsson__ & Vivian Oparah! #NationalLottery funded
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BFI Press & Industry
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8 Welsh films are coming to UK cinemas this year, including #BFIBacked horror Gwledd (The Feast) from @LeeHavenJones #NationalLottery
@FAN_BiggerPict
BFI FAN: The Bigger Picture
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From anticipated Welsh language horror, Gwledd, set in the hills of Snowdonia, to the transgender community of New Delhi in documentary Hijra - eight eclectic films are set to bring Welsh talent and stories to the big screen in 2022.
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Director Ruben Östlund’s latest feature #TriangleofSadness premieres tonight at #Cannes2022 , and is In Competition for the Palme d'Or - best of luck to the team! #BFIBacked #NationalLottery
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We're excited to announce that 15 animation projects have been awarded over £1million by the @BFI Short Form Animation Fund, also partnering with @StoryFuturesA to champion immersive storytelling #NationalLottery
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BFI Press & Industry
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Esteemed @BritishVogue editor @Edward_Enninful headlined the #LFF industry programme today with an in conversation event hosted by BFI Festivals Director @TriciaTuttle 📸 John Phillips/Getty Images for BFI
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Announced: The BFI will provide funding for Wellbeing Facilitators on projects backed with BFI Film Fund production funding. Working with @6ftFromTheSpotl , this dedicated role will champion cast and crew wellbeing. #NationalLottery funded
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'Submarine changed my life, it opened up everything for me...it was such an incredible experience and I felt like I came of age myself whilst making this coming of age film.' #ThePhantomOfTheOpen director @CraigRoberts10 on his filmmaking journey.
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We’re proud to support #TriangleofSadness by Ruben Östlund which had its world premiere at #Cannes2022 tonight 🌴 #BFIBacked #NationalLottery Photos by Darren Brade
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Calling all aspiring film critics and journalists! Applications are now open for this year's #LFF 2023 Critics Mentorship Programme.
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We're proud to back @_CarolMorley 's Typist Artist Pirate King, which has its world premiere at @TallinnBNFF today. #BFIBacked #NationalLottery
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We're proud to back two films in Official Selection at #Cannes2023 ⭐ The Old Oak dir. Ken Loach in Competition ⭐ How To Have Sex dir. Molly Manning Walker in Un Certain Regard #NationalLottery funded.
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BFI Press & Industry
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Watch out for Molly Manning Walker’s #BFIBacked debut in UK cinemas on 3 Nov. #NationalLottery funded
@mubiuk
MUBI UK & Ireland
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HOW TO HAVE SEX: Molly Manning Walker's vibrant depiction of the agonies and ecstasies of young adulthood. Coming to cinemas November 3. Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. A MUBI Release.
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We’re excited to have acquired Tim Mackenzie-Smith’s debut feature Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande for release in UK & Ireland. This riveting documentary tells the untold story of the Black British group from the 1970s whose unique sound became hugely influential.
@Screendaily
Screen International
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Music documentary ‘Getting It Back: The Story Of Cymande’ drums up UK-Ireland theatrical deal with @BFI (exclusive)
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'Why aren't urban characters ever given the orchestral treatment in cinema? [...] already we were thinking we needed to elevate how we would be telling their story' Writer-director Adura Onashile with actors Danny Sapani and Ayesha Antoine at the #LFF premiere of #BFIBacked Girl…
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'It's amazing that BFI and Film4 allowed us to make this film.' We're proud to support #BrianAndCharles with #NationalLottery funding. Catch it in cinemas nationwide now!
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Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli to be honoured with BFI Fellowships, celebrating James Bond’s 60th anniversary and their behind the scenes work educating, supporting and inspiring the next generation of film makers
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BFI Press & Industry
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Today’s #LFF #NationalLottery Filmmakers Reception was attended by members of the screen industries (including Honor Swinton Byrne, @LukeSchiller2 , @LizzieFrancke , @MiaBays and @BFIBen ) to celebrate the 19 funded films 📸 Millie Turner
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Today #BFIFlare hosted an Industry The Makers event with actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, singer, designer, choreographer, dancer and songwriter @RikkiBB , who has produced a prodigious body of work that spans four decades
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📢 @AmaAmpadu announced as BFI Film Fund Senior Production and Development Executive, joining the BFI after 12 years working as an independent producer.
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Brilliant news for #BFIBacked Hoard! The film will have its UK premiere at #LFF next week, screening in the First Feature Competition. #NationalLottery funded
@Screendaily
Screen International
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Exclusive: @LunaCarmoon 's Venice title ‘Hoard’ scores multiple release deals including UK. Saura Lightfoot Leon and Joseph Quinn star in the film, which won several prizes at Venice last month:
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Hear Jack Powell give a whistle-stop tour of our #NationalLottery Funding Plan for 2023-2026 #ScreenCulture2033
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BFI Press & Industry
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We're delighted to announce that 62 independent cinemas across England have collectively been awarded over £6.2M in the third round of the @DCMS Culture Recovery Fund #HereForCulture #HereForCinema
@DCMS
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Latest round of the #CultureRecoveryFund supporting arts, culture, heritage and cinema to continue being #HereForCulture ✅ £107M ✅ 925 organisations ✅ Welcomed by Dame Judi Dench, Clive Owen and many others ▶️
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We're proud to announce that BFI Distribution will release Jerzy Skolimowski’s Cannes Jury Prize winning film EO in the UK & Ireland.
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👀 Check out this behind the scenes first look at Ken Loach's latest film The Old Oak, currently shooting in County Durham #BFIBacked with #NationalLottery funding
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BFI Press & Industry
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We’re concerned that the LFF’s new Press+ Pass has caused some confusion and upset amongst journalists and want to clarify what it actually provides and why we’ve introduced it. The BFI LFF Press Pass remains the same as previous years, and offers access to all Press & Industry…
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We're thrilled that two #BFIBacked films will have their world premieres at Venice Critics' Week. - Hoard (Dir @LunaCarmoon ) - Sky Peals (Dir @moinwjh ) #NationalLottery funded
@Screendaily
Screen International
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Venice Critics’ Week unveils 2023 line-up
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Announced: The BFI has been appointed the exclusive worldwide sales agent to represent the historic Associated Rediffusion Television catalogue rights, held by Archbuild
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Many congratulations to director Charlotte Wells, winner of the award for First-Time Theatrical Feature Film at the Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday for the #BFIBacked Aftersun. #NationalLottery supported
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We were deeply saddened to hear of the death of Anthony Smith, who served as director of the BFI from 1979 to 1988. A transformative cultural force, his legacy as BFI director remains firmly visible today.
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BFI Press & Industry
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We're so proud to have supported @AmlAmeen and @REGYATES to bring their BFI-backed debut features #BoxingDayMovie and #PiratesFilm to the big screen. Yesterday we welcomed the filmmakers for an in-conversation event hosted by @afuahirsch . #NationalLottery
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We're thrilled to announce that our BFI Riverfront project at #BFISouthbank has been awarded a prestigious @RIBA_London Award! 🎉 Congratulations to Lukas Barry from Carmody Groarke Architects and all of the team involved in this extraordinary project
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Mahalia Belo’s thought-provoking feature debut The End We Start From, starring Jodie Comer, premieres tonight at #LFF - best wishes to the filmmaking team! A handful of tickets still remaining for tomorrow's screening #BFIBacked #NationalLottery funded
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We're delighted to see so many BFI #NationalLottery backed fiction features represented at #BIFA2023 tonight! Girl How to Have Sex In Camera Pretty Red Dress Rye Lane Scrapper The End We Start From Good luck to everyone!
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Congratulations to #BFIBacked debut feature How to Have Sex on winning the Golden Athena Award for Best Film 👏 @LottoGoodCauses @film4production @mubiuk
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BFI Press & Industry
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Today we publish the BFI Skills Review, examining the needs for training and skills development across the production sector for scripted film and high-end TV. @DCMS
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'I also want to push storytelling in a way that it nearly breaks' Writer-director Thomas Hardiman ( @BFINETWORK alumni) tells us how BFI support led his filmmaking journey to his #NationalLottery funded debut feature Medusa Deluxe. Out today in UK cinemas. #BFIBacked
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Congratulations to Joanna Scanlan on her win for #AfterLove , which screened at #LFF 2020, and was #BFIBacked with #NationalLottery funding and released by BFI Distribution!
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BFI
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Joanna Scanlan is awarded the BAFTA for Leading Actress following her astonishing performance in #AfterLove ! ⭐ #BFIBacked #EEBAFTAs
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We're delighted to announce that #BFIDistribution has acquired UK & Ireland theatrical rights for Creature, the new film from @AsifKapadia and @ENBallet , based on @AkramKhanLive ’s original concept and choreography.
@Screendaily
Screen International
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Exclusive: Asif Kapadia’s ‘Creature’ picked up for UK-Ireland distribution
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★★★★★ 'A minor key masterpiece.' - Irish Examiner Prasanna Puwanarajah’s #BFIBacked debut @BallywalterFilm is out now in select cinemas across UK & Ireland, starring @PatricKielty and @SeanaKerslake . #NationalLottery funded
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“I’m here in a listening capacity. I want to do this job in a way that these kinds of jobs aren’t usually done.”  @Miafilms Read more from BFI Film Fund Director Mia Bays on how she is developing her future vision for the fund. #ThisWayUp21
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'As a writer and director, I think there's something really special about the director really knowing the world and coming from it, not just directing it.' - Filmmaker @REGYATES on #PiratesFilm #NationalLottery
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ICYMI - We’ve launched Future Takes in partnership with @Film4 ! We’re seeking applications for ambitious & original short form work from UK filmmaking talent, awarding up to £90,000 each to up to 7 projects. Deadline 13 Feb
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“The ways in which companies employ staff has to change. People who have been othered have to be welcomed, and that means going to to find them in areas where you wouldn’t necessarily go.” - @BritishVogue editor @Edward_Enninful 📸 John Phillips/Getty Images for BFI
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Last night we welcomed #BFIBacked immersive filmmakers @asifkapadia , @erfan_aa and May Abdalla & Barry Gene Murphy ( @weareanagram ) for a special BFI Film Fund in conversation event hosted by @miafilms and Ulrich Schrauth
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50 creatives will be trained in VR and help deliver a project using the latest immersive technology, led by @StoryFuturesA in partnership with BFI as part of #Unboxed2022
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We're thrilled to reveal this year’s packed #LFF Industry Forum programme, including panel discussions and Spotlight talks with leading industry experts. Explore the programme and get accredited today!
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Just announced: The #UKGlobalScreenFund backs a further 14 international co-productions, allocating over £2.2m to boost global opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. @DCMS #HereForCulture
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Announced: BFI and @DCMS invest in a further 24 companies via the #UKGlobalScreenFund , awarding £2.1 million to support international business development strategies across film, TV, animation, documentary and games. #HereForCulture
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We've just published the findings from our 'Next Up' consultation, the next stage of developing our 10-year #NationalLottery Funding Strategy to ensure the continued vibrancy of our screen culture & industry growth across the UK. Read the full report here
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Today four incredible filmmakers joined our Female Filmmakers Panel hosted by @annasmithjourno : Sadie Frost @Sadieliza (Quant), @SamFirthFilms (Wolf Suit), Laura Samani (Small Body) & Mounia Akl (Costa Brava, Lebanon). #LFF
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We're delighted to announce @BFI Distribution’s acquisition of new British comedy All My Friends Hate Me The feature debut from Andrew Gaynord, this dark comedy is written by Tom Palmer & Tom Stourton and produced by Tom Palmer for @TotallyTom
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