Five teams selected for first round of Female Film Force initiative.
Popular dating application Bumble has awarded grants of £20,000 each to five UK filmmaking teams for short film projects.
The company announced it was launching Female Film Force, an initiative to back female filmmakers in the UK and Ireland, earlier this year. A shortlist of 10 projects was drawn up and the teams pitched at Bumble’s London HQ at the end of July.
The selected teams include first-time filmmakers alongside Tilly Coulson from Working Title, VFX exec Emma Moffat, and Dublin-based female filmmaking trio Alfonso Films.
Five projects have been given the greenlight.
Popular dating application Bumble has awarded grants of £20,000 each to five UK filmmaking teams for short film projects.
The company announced it was launching Female Film Force, an initiative to back female filmmakers in the UK and Ireland, earlier this year. A shortlist of 10 projects was drawn up and the teams pitched at Bumble’s London HQ at the end of July.
The selected teams include first-time filmmakers alongside Tilly Coulson from Working Title, VFX exec Emma Moffat, and Dublin-based female filmmaking trio Alfonso Films.
Five projects have been given the greenlight.
- 8/8/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
A dystoptian thriller about octogenarian eradication, a period drama set during the Battle of Waterloo and a documentary about Japan’s women of the sea are three of the films that are to be funded by dating app Bumble as it moves into the original content game.
The company, which in 2011 launched the eponymous app that only permits women to start a chat with their male matches, has chosen the five projects that it will fund as part of The Female Force. The fund offers filmmakers £20,000 to make a short film, which will be delivered in January 2019.
Ama Divers from Georgina Yukiko Donovan and Yoko Ishitani; A Battle in Waterloo from Emma Moffat, Tilly Coulson and Anna Hargreaves; Hatima from Oluwaseun ‘Shey’ Osibowale, Damilola Babalola, Louise Ogunnaike and Funke Alafiatayo; Pat from Emma Wall, Jo Halpin and Claire Byrne and The Leaving Party are the chosen films. Full details below.
The company, which in 2011 launched the eponymous app that only permits women to start a chat with their male matches, has chosen the five projects that it will fund as part of The Female Force. The fund offers filmmakers £20,000 to make a short film, which will be delivered in January 2019.
Ama Divers from Georgina Yukiko Donovan and Yoko Ishitani; A Battle in Waterloo from Emma Moffat, Tilly Coulson and Anna Hargreaves; Hatima from Oluwaseun ‘Shey’ Osibowale, Damilola Babalola, Louise Ogunnaike and Funke Alafiatayo; Pat from Emma Wall, Jo Halpin and Claire Byrne and The Leaving Party are the chosen films. Full details below.
- 8/7/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Dating app Bumble is getting closer to making its mark in the content game after narrowing down the shortlist for its female film fund.
The company, which runs the eponymous dating app that only permits women to start a chat with their male matches, launched The Female Force, offering five filmmakers £20,000 to make a short film, in May.
It has narrowed this down to ten filmmakers with five of them set to be revealed in August, with their films launching in January. The filmmakers are: Alexandra Blue, Christine Hartland, Daisy Stenham, Emma Moffat, Emma Wall, Georgina Yukiko Donovan, Helena Sutcliffe, Karen Turner, Oluwaseun ‘Shey’ Osibowale and Pratyusha Gupta (projects below).
The project is being overseen by stars including Guardians of the Galaxy and Elementary star Ophelia Lovibond and Black Mirror star Georgina Campbell, who is currently starring in Syfy’s DC Comics series Krypton, as well as radio presenter Edith Bowman,...
The company, which runs the eponymous dating app that only permits women to start a chat with their male matches, launched The Female Force, offering five filmmakers £20,000 to make a short film, in May.
It has narrowed this down to ten filmmakers with five of them set to be revealed in August, with their films launching in January. The filmmakers are: Alexandra Blue, Christine Hartland, Daisy Stenham, Emma Moffat, Emma Wall, Georgina Yukiko Donovan, Helena Sutcliffe, Karen Turner, Oluwaseun ‘Shey’ Osibowale and Pratyusha Gupta (projects below).
The project is being overseen by stars including Guardians of the Galaxy and Elementary star Ophelia Lovibond and Black Mirror star Georgina Campbell, who is currently starring in Syfy’s DC Comics series Krypton, as well as radio presenter Edith Bowman,...
- 7/12/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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