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Following a spate of suspected cases of fraud raised by UK independent producers, UK tax authority His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Hmrc) is adding additional security controls to minimise fraudulent claims on value-added-tax (Vat) repayments.

Last month, nine UK producers came forward via online network Producers Anonymous to say they had been impacted by recent cases of suspected Vat fraud, mostly taking place from October to December of last year, on lower-budget productions.

A person not known to the company was able to get hold of a production’s Vat number, lock the producer out of their account, and...

Even the most awarded and esteemed of actors can get pigeonholed in a certain type of role. Julia Louis-Dreyfus has a lot of awards, but they're all for comedy, and Hollywood hasn't provided a lot of chances for her to leave that lane. Asked in a new interview for W...

Subversive Irish breakout pic Kneecap and Sasha Nathwani’s gentle yet ambitious debut Last Swim are among the titles that have nabbed mentions on the new talent longlists at this year’s British Independent Film Awards.

Both Kneecap and Last Swim pop up on the Douglas Hickox Best Debut Director Award longlist. Other nominees include Hoard, directed by Luna Carmoon, and Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight, which debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

All four films also feature on the best screenplay longlist alongside Christopher Andrews’s Bring Them Down starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott. Other pics on the screenplay longlist include The Ceremony by Jack King and Jed Hart’s Restless.

Overall, the longlists include 31 British features, with 20 fiction and 11 documentary features across four debut filmmaking categories. Within that, there are 13 first-time fiction feature directors, 16 first-time feature documentary directors, 11 first-time writers, and 19 breakthrough producers.

The final...

Rich Peppiatt’s “Kneecap” and Luna Carmoon’s “Hoard” are among the titles in the British Independent Film Awards’ (BIFA) 2024 filmmaker new talent longlists, unveiled Friday. The selections spotlight 31 British features across four debut filmmaking categories, encompassing both fiction and documentary works.

Peppiatt and Carmoon join a group of first-time directors vying for the Douglas Hickox Award, including Amrou Al-Kadhi for “Layla,” Christopher Andrews for “Bring Them Down,” and Daina O Pusić for “Tuesday.” Other contenders in this category are Lucy Cohen with “Edge of Summer,” James Krishna Floyd for “Unicorns,” Stuart Gatt’s “Catching Dust,” Karan Kandhari’s “Sister Midnight,” Jack King’s “The Ceremony,” Rob Morgan’s “Stopmotion,” Sasha Nathwani’s “Last Swim,” and Joshua Trigg’s “Satu – Year of the Rabbit.” The category is sponsored by BBC Film.

The best debut screenwriter category, sponsored by Film4, sees Andrews and Carmoon competing alongside Floyd, Jed Hart for “Restless,...

Filmmakers from Bring Them Down, The Ceremony and Tuesday feature prominently on the filmmaker new talent longlists for the 2024 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas).

Bring Them Down’s Christopher Andrews is longlisted for the Douglas Hickox Award for best debut director and the best debut screenwriter award, while the film’s debut producer Jacob Swan Hyam is longlisted for breakthrough producer.

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The Ceremony repeats that trio for writer-director Jack King and producers Hollie Bryan and Lucy Meer; as does Tuesday for writer-director Daina O Pusic and producer Helen Gladders.

Four filmmaker new...

This week’s top pick, “The Last of the Sea Women,” isn’t a top-tier Best Documentary contender, but it’s in the conversation, thanks to its moving subject matter, beautiful cinematography, and Netpac Prize win at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The A24-produced doc tells the story of the haenyeo divers of South Korea’s Jeju Island. For centuries, women have been diving — without oxygen — to the ocean floor to harvest seafood for their livelihood. But most of the current haenyeo are senior citizens, and their traditional way of life is threatened by modernity and climate change. But the haenyeo are feisty old scrappers, and they fight back against polluters using social media as a messaging and recruitment tool. You’ll want to join them after you see their camaraderie and resilience. It’s now streaming on Apple TV+.

Here are some other movies to stream this weekend:...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah)

Bad Boys: Ride or Die is a film about retribution and redemption. Not just on screen, but in execution. After their last attempt at a blockbuster was shelved in the name of a tax loophole, directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah seem intent on unleashing all their pent-up energy, whether they’re selling us Batgirls or Bad Boys. Even if it bears the baggage of a meta redemption arc for its star, Ride or Die brings enough stylistic gusto to its action in the absence of Michael Bay but has a hard time justifying most other decisions, which adopt the tedium rampant in modern blockbuster filmmaking. – Conor O. (full review...

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Max is ready with an entertainment-packed October this year. The upcoming month will see the return of some of HBO’s brilliant original comedy series Somebody Somewhere and also new original movies like Salem’s Lot. Just like every month, Max is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 10 new movies and TV shows coming to Max in October 2024.

Interview with the Vampire (October 1)

Interview with the Vampire is a gothic horror drama film directed by Neil Jordan from a screenplay by Anne Rice. Based on Rice’s 1976 novel of the same name, the 1994 film follows the story of Louis, a vampire as he tells his life story to an eager biographer and his violent maker Lestat tries to make Louis stay with him. Interview with the Vampire stars Tom Cruise,...

A24’s Tuesday and MaXXXine will debut on HBO and be available to stream exclusively on Max in the U.S. this October.

Tuesday tells the story of a mother (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her teenage daughter (Lola Petticrew) who must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird. From debut filmmaker Daina O. Pusić, Tuesday is a heart-rending fairy tale about the echoes of loss and finding resilience in the unexpected.

The film will be available to stream on Friday, October 11 on Max. Tuesday will make its linear debut on Saturday, October 12, at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt on HBO.

The cast includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lola Petticrew, Leah Harvey, and Arinzé Kene. The film is written and directed by Daina O. Pusić. Helen Gladders, Ivana MacKinnon, and Oliver Roskill are the producers.

MaXXXine takes place in 1980s Hollywood as adult film star and aspiring actress...

Warner Bros Discovery announced on Friday that A24’s recent films MaXXXine and Tuesday from filmmakers Ti West and Daina O. Pusić will debut on HBO and be available to stream exclusively on Max in the U.S. this October.

Tuesday will be available to stream on Max on Friday, October 11, making its linear debut on HBO on Saturday, October 12 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt. MaXXXine streams Friday, October 18 and bows on HBO on Saturday, October 19 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt. The films come to Max through a multiyear pay-1 U.S. output deal with A24, announced in December.

The third film in an acclaimed horror trilogy from West, on the heels of X and Pearl, MaXXXine takes place in 1980s Hollywood as adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood,...

Romance It Ends With Us opens in 630 cinemas through Sony at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, pitting lead actress Blake Lively against her husband Ryan Reynolds, whose Deadpool & Wolverine has held top spot for two weekends.

It Ends With Us is adapted by Christy Hall from Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel, about a woman whose connection with a neurosurgeon begins to remind her of her parents’ troubled relationship.

Director Justin Baldoni stars alongside Lively having optioned the book through his Wayfarer Studios in 2019, with Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj and Kevin McKidd also on the cast.

Having broken out in...

If only the brilliant Louis-Dreyfus and Lola Petticrew had been left to handle the black comedy without help from a zany avian

Can the terrifying mystery of death be in any way explained, or its wrenching pain softened, by a quirky hipster movie fantasy about the angel of death being a talking macaw? The answer, as provided by this bafflingly irrelevant and shallow film from first-time feature director Daina O Pusic, is a resounding no. Tuesday stars the estimable Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who has graduated from comic masterpieces such as Seinfeld and Veep to a serious movie career. But how frustrating to see a performance of this quality marooned in the middle of such pointless silliness.

The film’s setting is a London suburb (there is co-production funding from BBC Film and the BFI) where a 15-year-old British kid called Tuesday, played by Lola Petticrew, is dying at home of a terminal illness,...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars in Daina O Pusić’s complex, delightfully odd tale of grief. Here’s our Tuesday review.

Films about death tend to be about coming to terms with the fate that waits for us all. Films like The Fault In Our Stars, Five Feet Apart, Meet Joe Black and Me And Earl And The Dying Girl all find characters accepting death, either their own or a loved one’s, as part of life and are able to move on.

Daina O Pusić’s directorial debut Tuesday is different. The only word I can think to describe it is “weird”. Thoroughly, unapologetically weird. While the film’s trailer seemingly promises a traditional, life-affirming weepy, Pusić isn’t interested in offering a gentle look at death.

Instead, death takes the form of a bird, a macaw to be exact. It flies from person to person, granting them death whether they...

Here is another film that ponders the big life-or-death existential questions, in the grand cinematic tradition of 1946’s A Matter Of Life And Death or, say, 1990’s Ghost. Tuesday, the ambitious debut feature from Croatian filmmaker Daina O. Pusić, in fact bears most similarities to 2016’s A Monster Calls: as with J.A. Bayona’s tear-jerking drama, this is a devastatingly moving fairy tale about a gravelly voiced, anthropomorphised fantasy character making friends with a human grappling with the terminal illness of a family member. Unlike that film, this comes from A24 and is decidedly made for adults rather than children, being distinctly, deliciously oddball.

It begins with a montage of people about to die. Cheerful stuff. Facing their end, this cavalcade of poor souls beg for mercy from Death, who takes an unlikely form: a shapeshifting CG macaw parrot, voiced by British actor Arinzé Kene (Connor from EastEnders). Who needs a cloak and scythe?...

To Julia Louis-Dreyfus, funerals can be a great place to laugh — “maybe one of the best laughs you would ever have,” she says. “In dark times, a good laugh is almost like a drug. It’s bumping up against something it’s the opposite of, which makes it much more needed.”

The ability to find humor and absurdity amid deep pain is at the heart of Louis-Dreyfus’ latest film, the dark comedy Tuesday (in theaters now). Louis-Dreyfus plays Zora, a mother struggling to accept the fate of her terminally ill daughter,...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for “Tuesday,” the debut directorial effort of filmmaker Daina Oniunas-Pusić and featuring the continued performance growth and evolution of actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Currently in theaters since June 14th.

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Dreyfus portrays Zora, the emotionally distraught mother of a wheelchair-bound daughter named Tuesday (Lola Pettigrew). When an odd talking Macaw bird (voice of Arinzé Kene) infiltrates Tuesday’s bedroom, it’s representing the imminent death of the girl. Zora is unwilling to accept the bird’s premise, using any means to destroy the death by getting rid of the bird … which of course comes with consequences.

“Tuesday” is in theaters since June 14th. Featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lola Pettigrew, Leah Harvey, Arinzé Kene and Ellie James. Written and directed by Daina Oniunas-Pusić. Rated “R”

Click Here for Patrick McDonald’s audio review of “Tuesday”

Tuesday

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Maybe it’s a bit of unintended “synergy”, or just a result of a scrambled post-strike release schedule, but 2024 is proving to be quite a busy year for the current “indie-studio darling” A24. Could they repeat their Oscar dominance from two years ago with their recent ‘slate”? Who knows, but this new film flying (wink to the themes of the story) into theatres this weekend could snag a few nominations. A big factor for that is the lead actress, who is really bursting out of her “comfort zone”. That’s because she is the most nominated actress for TV comedy (in three different shows) in Emmy history (and she has taken home lotsa’ gold). And though there are a few laughs, she showcases her dramatic “chops’ in Tuesday.

This story starts as the “grim reaper” makes its “rounds”, crisscrossing planet Earth and encountering some folks pleading for its embrace, others...

The Mediterrane Film Festival announced its complete program ahead of its second edition, taking place in Malta’s capital of Valetta from June 22-30. New titles selected include recent Cannes highlights in Coralie Fargeat’s Demi Moore-led body horror “The Substance” and Roberto Minvervini’s “The Damned,” which join previously announced films like Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Kinds of Kindness” and Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw The TV Glow.”

Further program additions include Mahdi Fleifel’s Directors’ Fortnight standout “To a Land Unknown,” which Variety labeled “a confident, angry, fully-realized drama,” and Truong Minh Quy’s Un Certain Regard breakout “Viet and Nam.” An extended version of the Malta-shot “Jurassic World: Dominion” will play as part of the Malta Expanded strand, while on the retrospective end of the program, the festival will honor David Bowie with screenings of Nicolas Roeg’s “The Man Who Fell to Earth” and Lisa Azuelos’s “My Way,...

The Mediterrane Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its second edition (June 22-30), with Cannes premiere The Count Of Monte Cristo set to open the event.

Scroll down for the full line-up

Directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, the film is among seven titles in the out of competition strand, which also includes Jane Schoenbrun’s Sundance title I Saw The TV Glow and Tarsem Singh’s Dear Jassi.

The 15-strong competition section features Cannes competition titles Kinds Of Kindness and The Substance, and Berlin premiere The Strangers case starring Omar Sy,

Seven films compete in the environment-themed Mare Nostrum section,...

Malta’s Mediterrane Film Festival has set the full competition and industry lineup for its second edition, which runs June 22 to 30 in the country’s capital, Valletta.

The programme includes 15 films in competition, seven out-of-competition, and seven films competing in the environment-themed Mare Nostrum section, topped up by 14 immersive projects.

Select competition titles include Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest Kinds of Kindness, Coralie Fargeat’s body horror The Substance, and The Damned by Italian filmmaker Roberto Minvervini. All three films debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Scroll down to see the full lineup. Deadpool and Terminator: Dark Fate director Tim Miller will serve on the competition jury.

The festival has also set its industry lineup, featuring a series of masterclass sessions. Speakers include editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis, production designer Nathan Crowley, casting director Margery Simkin, and composer Simon Franglen...

How do you ever get past the loss of a loved one? Time and patience often help the most, yet when we see our loved ones trending toward death, we frequently find ourselves bargaining for more time. Tuesday, the feature directorial debut of Daina Oniunas-Pusic examines a woman faced with crushing loss or the choice to take on an impossible task. Like most of us, she chooses a task far beyond her understanding. The setup opens the door for one of Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘s most potent performances on film. However, Tuesday‘s flaws become more apparent with its slow pacing and questionable narrative choices.

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Zora (Louis-Dreyfus) struggles to keep her life together as he daughter, Tuesday (Lola Petticrew), inches closer to death.

“Because I could not stop for death

He kindly stopped for me.”

—Emily Dickinson

“He’s kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible! This… is an Ex-Parrot!”

—John Cleese

The macaw is tiny at first — small enough, in fact, to nestle in the space between a man’s tear duct and the side of his nose. Then he grows to an enormous height, possibly 10 feet or so. Walking over a person lying prone on the ground, clearly in pain...

Lola Petticrew and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Tuesday Photo: A24 Tuesday has everything one could possibly expect from an A24 movie: the painfully tense mother-daughter relationship of Lady Bird; the weird, animal-related body horror of The Lobster and Tusk; the tender, preemptive last moments spent with a cancer patient of The Farewell...

If you’re quirk-averse, you might be immediately put off by a cursory description of Daina Oniunas-Pusić’s debut feature, Tuesday, in which Julia Louis-Dreyfus confronts death in the form of a shape-shifting, talking macaw. But from the distressing and immersive opening scenes, it’s clear Tuesday is an unsettling and bold vision that rewards a viewer willing to sit through some flaws (and some cringe).

In the opening sequence (reminiscent of both Enter the Void and Wings of Desire) the Macaw (voiced and performed on set by Arinze Kene) appears to a handful of poor souls on the edge of death after hearing their pleas over an oppressive din. He ends their lives with the wave of a mangey, heavy wing. The Macaw’s eyes are clouded, and he moves from a parking lot to a living room to an alley with a weary inexorability that is, frankly, frightening.

For the perpetually impecunious (see: poor) indie filmmaker, a well-executed short or feature project can often be your best passport to the larger world. Left to our own scant devices, our calendars are unlikely to fill up with myriad jaunts to such exotic locales as Cannes, Venice, Locarno or, erm, Arkansas. But with a piping hot Dcp in hand, you not have not just an excuse to visit such places but an invitation. And few American cities are quite as dreamily summoned in the mind as day-glow Miami. After all: if it’s good enough for LeBron James, it’s good enough for us.

For 41 years, the Miami Film Festival has been showcasing innovative, inclusive work from new and emerging independent creators worldwide. Unsurprisingly, many of said creators are our own beloved Film Independent Fellows. In fact, a whopping 38 Fi Fellows will be in the Magic City next week to show new work,...

Death has taken many forms in media over the decades — from a Norm MacDonald-voiced Grim Reaper in Family Guy to an anthropologically-minded Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black — but no depiction is quite like in Tuesday. For the first trailer of the upcoming film, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has the ominous fate appear in the form of a shape-shifting, gravelly-voiced talking parrot.

“Madam, you need to say goodbye to your daughter,” Death warns Louis-Dreyfus.

The latest film from A24 is shaping up to be a tear-jerking drama as Lola Petticrew plays...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus gets a fantastical visitor while caring for her ailing daughter in the first trailer for the A24 drama Tuesday.

A24 released the trailer Thursday for Daina Oniunas-Pusic’s feature, which does not yet have an announced release date. Tuesday centers on Zora (Louis-Dreyfus) and her terminally ill daughter, Tuesday (Lola Petticrew), who meet Death in the form of a talking and size-shifting bird voiced by Arinzé Kene.

“Madam, you need to say goodbye to your daughter,” Death says calmly in the footage. “Life — every life — ends.”

Later, Zora has trouble coming to terms with saying goodbye. “I don’t know what I am without you, who I am without you,” she tells Tuesday. “I don’t know what the world is without you in it.”

Oniunas-Pusic wrote and directed Tuesday, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September. Helen Gladders, Ivana MacKinnon and Oliver Roskill serve as producers.

"Every life ends..." A24 has unveiled an official trailer for an intriguing film titled Tuesday, marking the feature directorial debut of Croatian filmmaker Daina Oniunas-Pusic (aka Daina O. Pusić). This premiered at last year's Telluride Film Festival, but it hasn't shown up many other places since then. This features a rather unique high concept: a mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird (who appears as a big parrot). It's a story about a woman who is sick and dying, and a mother who doesn't want to let her daughter go, learning to accept the reality of death thanks to this talking bird (as Death) helping her though it. All of this sounds quite wild. Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as Zora, Lola Petticrew as Tuesday, Leah Harvey, Ellie James, and Arinzé Kene as the voice of Death. This actually doesn't seem that weird,...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars in Tuesday, a feature film debut from Daina Oniunas-Pusic. In the trailer, Louis-Dreyfus plays a mother who confronts death in a rare personified form: a talking parrot. Alongside Louis-Dreyfus, Tuesday features Lola Petticrew and Arinze Kene.

A new trailer for Tuesday from A24 shows Julia Louis-Dreyfus encountering a unique vision of death, personified by a talking parrot. Tuesday is the directorial feature debut from Daina Oniunas-Pusic. In addition to Louis-Dreyfus, the film stars Lola Petticrew and Arinze Kene.

A24 releases the trailer for Tuesday, giving a first look at the Louis-Dreyfus film. Check out the trailer below:

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The actor spoke about her first major dramatic performance in Tuesday, at its UK premiere alongside co-star Lola Petticrew and director Daina Oniunas-Pusic

On Thursday, Boston’s best-loved psychiatrist was back on our screens after an almost 20-year absence. Kelsey Grammer might have been the sole key cast member returning for Paramount’s Frasier reboot, yet the anticipation surrounding his comeback – and the warmth that met him – is testament to undiminished audience appetite for 90s sitcoms.

A Friends reunion show in 2021 became Sky One’s most viewed programme ever. And, last weekend, the possibility of a fresh instalment of the holy grail of small-screen multi-camera comedies suddenly came closer.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus came to the Telluride Film Festival for the first time this year for the premiere of A24’s Tuesday, a dramatic fantasy from first-time feature director Daina Oniunas-Pusić. The role, a departure from the kinds of comedic parts that have made Louis-Dreyfus famous, sees her confronting tragedy, with the accompaniment of a giant macaw as a metaphor for death.

Louis-Dreyfus spoke to THR about why she stepped so far outside her comfort zone for the film, which A24 has not yet dated, how she felt promoting the movie during the strikes under one of the Screen Actors Guild’s interim agreements, and what she’s learning from interviewing women who “don’t give a shit” on her podcast, Wiser Than Me.

How did this movie come to you?

The script was sent to me. I did not know the director, Daina Oniunas-Pusić, at all. But I read it...

The 50th edition of the Telluride Film Festival will include the world premieres of Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn,” Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders,” George C. Wolfe’s “Rustin,” Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “Nyad,” and Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,” among other top awards hopefuls, festival organizers announced on Wednesday.

In keeping with tradition, the 2023 Telluride lineup was kept under wraps until 24 hours before the annual festival begins – although sharp-eyed pundits and awards experts were able to accurately speculate about many of the titles in this year’s lineup due to premiere designations at other festivals in Toronto, Venice, and New York.

“Saltburn” is Fennell’s second film after 2020’s “Promising Young Woman,” which landed the budding auteur a trio of Oscar nominations. The film stars recent Best Supporting Actor nominee Barry Keoghan, as well as Jacob Elordi of “Euphoria” fame, former Oscar nominees Rosamund Pike and Richard E. Grant,...

Includes producer and former Screen Star Of Tomorrow Helen Gladders

UK’s Film London has unveiled the 12 participants of its third Breaking The Glass Ceiling programme, an initiative aimed at mid-level industry professionals from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

Among the selection is Camilla Wren who previously worked on the Fantastic Beasts films and upcoming Netflix series One Day in script and production. Wren set up her own production company Frolic Films in 2018 which has projects in development with BBC, Netflix, BFI and Film4.

Also selected is Screen Star Of Tomorrow 2022 Helen Gladders, producer on Daina Oniunas-Pusic’s upcoming feature Tuesday starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Jaya Campbell,...

Tuesday

We’ve been kicking around the A24 backed Tuesday in our fest predictions for some time now as it was in the can in June of 2021 but Daina Oniunas-Pusić‘s name was only mentioned as of late when she signed with CAA back in October. Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the Croatian-born, London-trained filmmaker got to work with the extremely picky cinematographer Alexis Zabé of Silent Light and The Florida Project fame. Also starring Lola Petticrew, Arinzé Kene and Leah Harvey, Tuesday is a tale that goes into dark psychological matter and includes among speaking parts a Macaw parrot. Producers include Stray Bear Productions’ Ivana MacKinnon, Gingerbread Pictures’ Helen Gladders, Record Player Films’ Oliver Roskill.…...

Daina Oniunas-Pusić, director of “Rhonna & Donna” and the upcoming A24 movie “Tuesday” starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, has signed with CAA for representation in all areas.

Best known for her award-winning 2016 comedy short “Rhonna & Donna,” Oniunas-Pusić is currently in post-production on her debut feature film “Tuesday” for A24, BBC Film, Cinereach and BFI. Written and directed by Oniunas-Pusić, the film was described in the initial announcement as a “mother-daughter fairytale,” starring Louis-Dreyfus, Arinzé Kene and Lola Petticrew. It is set to be released by A24 in early 2023.

The London-based, Croatian-born filmmaker made her professional debut with the 2015 short film “The Beast,” which premiered at Telluride and went on to screen at more than 30 festivals, picking up numerous awards, including the Golden Pram Award at the Zagreb Film Festival, a jury honorable mention at the Slamdance Film Festival and the best short fiction prize at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

Oniunas-Pusić’s comedy...

Here’s our annual rundown of the 10 largest awards given out by the British Film Institute’s Film Fund across 2021. Backed by National Lottery money, the grants are a key supporter of indie cinema in the UK.

This year also saw long-time Film Fund chief Ben Roberts, now BFI CEO, hand over the keys to the fund to new director Mia Bays.

Top of the list is The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, an adaptation of Rachel Joyce’s popular novel about a man who embarks on a 450-mile walk across the UK in the belief that his journey will save the life of an old friend. Jim Broadbent is starring in the pic, which Joyce is adapting herself. Hettie Macdonald, who helmed Normal People with Lenny Abrahamson, is directing. Producers are Kevin Loader with Juliet Dowling and Marilyn Milgrom.

Second on the list is Typist Artist Pirate King[/link], the...