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We have a brand new trailer for Uncaged. It's not important that you've heard of this movie before now, it's quite likely that most people haven't. What is important is that this movie features a large, hungry and violent lion on a rampage that is basically walking along the exact same lines as Jaws, but with a jungle cat instead of a shark. Does it matter that it's a low-budget creature feature instead of an immaculately crafted, all-timer blockbuster? That's for the viewer to decide.

The trailer kicks off by showing us some agents investigating a brutal crime scene, in which, a couple was ripped to shreds by an as-of-yet unidentified beast. Spoilers, it's a big lion. The frequency and intensity of the incidents increase as authorities wrestle with the notion of how to deal with the crisis before a specialist is called in to handle it. The whole thing...

Exclusive: Based on the true story of Dutch-born, Us-raised Antonia Brico who was the world’s first female conductor.

The Benelux arm of German outfit Splendid is taking the plunge into production. Splendid has just boarded new feature The Conductor (De Dirigent) from leading Dutch director Maria Peters (Pietje Bel 1 & 2, Sonny Boy) and producer Dave Schram.

The film is based on the true story of Dutch-born, Us-raised Antonia Brico who was the world’s first female conductor (pictured).

The film has a 4.6m euro budget and will shoot this fall throughout Europe. Another new Splendid Dutch production starts shooting this month. Directed by Erwin van den Eshof, teen drama Misfits stars some of the Netherlands’ most popular YouTube stars. The cast includes Niek Roozen, Donny Roelvink, Gio Latooy, Défano Holwijn, Jill Schirnhofer, Chris Tates, Eddy Zoëy, Bente Fokkens, Jolijn Henneman, Fenna Ramos, Sara Ras and boyband 4U.

The project was developed with Amsterdam-based company NewBe, with a quick...

Young juries in 17 European cities select Dutch film by Dave Schram.

School bullying drama Regret! (Spijt!), from Dutch director Dave Schram, has won the European Film Academy Young Audience Award 2014.

The film was selected by more than 1,000 children aged 12-14 in cities ranging from Barcelona and Bratislava to London and Tel Aviv.

Having watched the three nominated films on Young Audience Film Day, the young cinema-lovers had the opportunity to discuss the films before electing their favourite. The results were then reported live via video conference to Erfurt (Germany) where Polish actor Maciej Stuhr moderated the awards ceremony transmitted online as a live stream.

Young speakers from the German jury presented the award to Schram who thanked the audience and expressed his hope that the film may help to do something to combat bullying.

Now in its third year, this special initiative includes a network of nine partners: BFI British Film Institute, Centre for Educational...

  Regret!, a drama about school bullying from Dutch director Dave Schram, has won this year's Young Audience Award from the European Film Academy.   Audiences of young filmgoers from across Europe voted for Schram's drama. It was one of three short-listed finalists for the prize. The other nominees were Gitte Lokkegaard for The Contest and Katja von Garnier for Windstorm.    Accepting his trophy, Schram said he hoped his film would help in the fight to eradicate bullying at schools across Europe. Bullying has been a problem that has drawn attention in schools across the continent and in

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Films from Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany up for award.

The European Film Academy has nominated three titles for the third Efa Young Audience Award 2014.

They are The Contest (Denmark), directed by Martin Miehe-Renard, Regret! (Netherlands), directed by Dave Schram, and Windstorm (Germany), directed by Katja von Garnier.

The nominations were chosen by a committee including Margret Albers, Deutsche Kindermedienstiftung Goldener Spatz (Germany); Michal Matus, Tel Aviv International Children¹s Film Festival (Israel); Jan Naszewski, New Europe Film Sales (Poland); and Eszter Vuojala, Oulu International Children¹s Film Festival (Finland).

On Young Audience Film Day on May 4, the BFI Southbank in London will be one of the 17 places across Europe screening the three nominated films to a young audience.

Jury speakers will transmit the national results live via video conference to Erfurt, Germany where the winner will be announced that same day (May 4) in an award ceremony streamed live on yaa.europeanfilmawards.eu.

Doha’s youth festival to showcase Qatari filmmakers; unveils competition titles.

Films shot by Qatari nationals and those who call Qatar their home are to be showcased at the inaugural Ajyal Youth Film Festival (Nov 26-30), presented by the Doha Film Institute, in a Made in Qatar strand.

The programme will highglight the works of filmmakers across three segments.

The first will feature the works of winners from the Doha Film Institute’s 48-Hour online Family Film Challenge; the second from the 7-Day Filmmaking Challenge, both of which were open to filmmakers from across Qatar; and the third which will include the screening of Batal Wa Resalah (The Hero and the Message), from Al Rayyan Productions.

Ajyal festival director Fatma Al Remaihi said the Qatar strand would “honour the dedication, creativity and unique voice of our homegrown talent in front of a wide audience”.

She added that the festival is “dedicated to supporting local filmmakers and to...