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Legendary film editor Thelma Schoonmaker will attend this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) to chair an onstage In Conversation session focused on the work of her late husband, filmmaker Michael Powell.

The event will take place on August 17 at the Tollcross Central Hall. The day before, Schoonmaker will introduce a screening of Powell’s classic film The Edge of the World (1937), presented in a digital restoration.

Set on an isolated Scottish island, The Edge of the World dramatises the shifts in play in a remote community as older generations struggle to retain their culture as younger islanders look to leave in search of more modern lifestyles.

This year’s Eiff In Conversation strand also features talks with names such as Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, and Rebecca O’Brien, the team behind the legendary Sixteen Films outfit. Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) will take part in a session...

This year’s edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival will host British filmmaker Ken Loach and his longtime creative collaborators, writer Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O’Brien.

The trio will discuss the acclaimed films they have created together over the years including Palme d’Or winners The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016), on Aug. 20. The group will then introduce a special retrospective screening on 35mm print of the The Wind That Shakes The Barley, starring Cillian Murphy, the fest confirmed.

Eiff’s In Conversation strand also features a range of other major filmmaking talent who will discuss their creative careers to date, including director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void, One to One: John & Yoko) speaking with his brother, producer Andrew Macdonald (Trainspotting, Civil War, 28 Years Later). Kevin Macdonald will also present a screening of The Cranes are Flying...

Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest is a film about endings—of communities, of traditions, of certainty—which all unravel over the course of seven hallucinatory days in an undefined era, in an idyllic rural Scottish village whose denizens see their traditional way of life and understanding of their place in the world violently dismantled by the relentless economic forces of capitalism. I last had the pleasure of speaking to Tsangari back in 2011 following the SXSW screening of Attenberg, which cemented her position as a linchpin of the Greek New Wave. Harvest sees her adapt Jim Crace’s Booker Prize-nominated novel, transposing it from its English countryside setting to the Western Highlands of Scotland, where rather than shipping in extras to fill the background with activity, she instead invited those who were actually of the land to join her trope of players front and centre of the frame. Shot on 16mm film,...

Netflix has recruited Ollie Madden, currently director of Film4 and Channel 4 Drama, to lead the streamer’s U.K. film division, filling a key slot in Dan Lin’s new global film team. The 48-year-old executive will transfer to Netflix’s London hub in October after eight years at Channel 4, where he oversaw Film4’s feature slate and the broadcaster’s scripted series portfolio.

Madden joined Channel 4 in 2017, became director in 2022 and, last year, assumed joint control of Film4 and drama, shepherding Oscar winners “Poor Things,” “The Zone of Interest” and “The Favourite.” “I’ve been incredibly proud to spend the past eight years with Film4 … and I’m very excited to work with Anne and Dan to build Netflix’s film business in the U.K.,” he wrote in a staff memo.

Reporting to vice-president of content Anne Mensah, Madden will serve as chairman Dan Lin’s point...

US president’s call for 100% tariffs on films ‘produced in foreign lands’ comes under fire, with actor Brian Cox saying Trump doesn’t understand how films are made

Leading figures in the British film industry have reacted with a mixture of wariness and bemusement at the prospect of tariffs announced by Donald Trump on movies produced in “foreign lands”.

Rebecca O’Brien, producer of a string of films by Ken Loach including Palme d’Or winners The Wind That Shakes the Barley and I, Daniel Blake says that tariffs appear “simply unworkable given how intertwined and global the film industry is”. “I can see that Trump watches Hollywood collapsing and losing its jobs to the rest of the world but that’s because it’s a very expensive place to make films.”...

Over 200 UK independent producers have signed an open letter addressed to BBC Film and Film4, urging the UK’s leading public service broadcasters (PSBs) to “reaffirm their core responsibility to support UK producers and safeguard the future of the UK independent film industry”.

The letter has been compiled over the last 48 hours by producers’ organisation Producers Anonymous. The group says it was written after “growing alarm” over the backing by BBC Film and Film4 for separate Cannes Competition titles without a UK director or production company: Sentimental Value and The History Of Sound.

Read the letter to BBC Film and...

Screen International is tracking the key packages launched before and during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival’s market, which runs May 13-21.

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The Rule Of Three

Thomasin McKenzie and Katie Douglas to star in this horror from Smile producer Temple Hill Entertainment. James Roday Rodriguez directs and wrote the screenplay alongside Todd Harthan, which is based on Sam Ripley’s novel.

International sales: Protagonist Pictures

Alma

Pamela Anderson, Dakota Fanning, and Lindsay Duncan will star in Sally Potter’s latest feature about a family gathered to scatter the ashes of...

Pamela Anderson’s comeback tour continues: After leading “The Last Showgirl” and flexing her comedy chops in the upcoming “Naked Gun,” Anderson will be starring in Sally Potter’s latest indie film, “Alma.”

Anderson, Dakota Fanning, and Lindsay Duncan star in the family drama, centered on an extended family gathered to scatter the ashes of their mother. But her presence still haunts them and threatens to unravel buried secrets. Variety first reported the news. “Babygirl” breakout Esther McGregor, Esmé Creed-Miles, and Earl Cave co-star.

“Looking for the alchemical mix of great screen presences to bring a script into vivid life can feel like a treasure hunt,” Potter said in a press statement. “Three of the cinematic jewels now set to be at the centre of the cast of ‘Alma’ are Pamela Anderson, Dakota Fanning and Lindsay Duncan, three brilliant actors I have wanted to work with for some time. Their...

Pamela Anderson, having underlined her indie film credentials last year thanks to her Golden Globe and SAG nominated turn in “The Last Showgirl,” has landed herself another lead role.

The star is set to join renowned British writer/director Sally Potter’s latest feature “Alma,” leading the cast alongside Golden Globe nominee Dakota Fanning and BIFA Award winner and BAFTA nominee Lindsay Duncan. Joining the ensemble will be Arinzé Kene, Esther McGregor Esmé Creed-Miles and Earl Cave, with further casting to follow.

Bankside Films have boarded “Alma” for worldwide sales ahead of the Cannes Film Festival and will be introducing the film to buyers there. The film is currently in pre-production and set to start shooting on location in England in September.

The story follows an extended family who meet to scatter the ashes of their mother only to find that her continued haunting presence explosively, and often comically, unravels the secrets of their lives.

The UK’s culture, media and sport (Cms) committee has delivered its far-reaching recommendations to the government, following its in-depth inquiry into British film and high-end TV.

Key recommendations include extending the research and development (R&d) tax relief to support film development; introducing a 25% tax relief for the prints and advertising (P&a) costs of films claiming the Independent Film Tax Credit (Iftc); rejoining Creative Europe as an associate member; a 5% levy on streamers; and a better funded BFI to be able to fully deliver on its wide remit of responsibilities.

The inquiry was launched in 2023 and received submissions...

Update: In the wake of the BBC acknowledging “serious flaws” in the production of its controversial documentary “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone” and initiating a further review, Artists for Palestine UK, which had published a letter condemning the broadcaster’s decision to remove the film, have issued a statement.

Artists for Palestine UK said: “We are appalled that the BBC has chosen to give credence to a politicized campaign that sought to discredit a documentary about children’s experiences of unspeakable Israeli military violence, because one child’s father was deputy agriculture minister in Gaza. This disgraceful decision comes despite nearly 900 media figures having warned the BBC of the dangers of such an approach.

“Reports over the last week have detailed Israel’s detention and torture of hundreds of Gaza’s medical workers. The world has seen images of traumatized and emaciated Palestinian captives emerging from Israeli jails, some with limbs amputated.

The UK Global Screen Fund’s (Ukgsf) next round of awardees from its distribution strand of support includes The Penguin Lessons, Bring Them Down, The Salt Path and Kneecap.

The Ukgsf has issued 18 new awards, administered by the BFI, to support international opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. Ukgsf is financed through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms), and the awards see a further £413,995 allocated through the £7m per year fund’s international distribution strand.

The international distribution strand is now managed by Jordan Allwood, who joined the team in October from UK sales agent Independent Entertainment and replacesFrancesca Walker.

Unlike most late fall festivals, Thessaloniki in Northern Greece regularly draws packed crowds of passionate and youthful patrons, largely thanks to the city’s significant student population. On Saturday at the festival’s Olympia Theatre, however, a distinct waft of emotion was in the air when Athina Rachel Tsangari arrived to present her latest feature Harvest.

A loose adaptation of British writer Jim Crace’s novel of the same name, Harvest, a psychedelic trip of great ambition and scale, is the first feature from Tsangari in almost a decade. Tsangari, who learned her trade first as a student and later film programmer in Thessaloniki, has spent much of that time outside of Greece and now resides in Los Angeles, where she teaches film directing at CalArts. Saturday’s screening was a homecoming.

“I was crying at the start. It was quite emotional,” she told us the morning after the screening.

Every autumn, a seaside resort in Brittany hosts a charming festival that celebrates only low-budget, independent British and Irish films. Is this a curious case for Poirot?

Cannes may be the home of France’s biggest and best-known film festival, but the one that’s held in Dinard in Brittany is, in its own way, just as remarkable. For five days at the start of every autumn, this beautifully spick-and-span seaside resort devotes itself to celebrating cinema, with one small but mind-boggling twist: the films it shows are all British and Irish. What’s more, they’re fairly low-budget independent productions – two of this year’s highest-profile entries were The Outrun with Saoirse Ronan and Alice Lowe’s Timestalker. And yet, if you didn’t know any better, you’d assume from the red-carpet premieres, the lavish gala dinners and the sold-out screenings that they were all potential blockbusters and Oscar winners.

Exclusive: BBC Director General Tim Davie will get on the front foot when it comes to sustainability and climate change this week and urge the industry to put content speaking to these issues front and center. Speaking at the Climate Creatives event this Wednesday, Davie will say that focusing on content that addresses sustainability and climate change is a “huge opportunity.”

Deadline has obtained a sneak peek of a video address Davie will give at the fourth edition of Climate Creatives, a cross-industry event organized by the BBC that gathers commissioners, production staff and storytellers to examine how the industry can come together to find sustainability solutions.

“Surely now we’re at a point where sustainability, the agenda around nature, must be there, front and center,” Davie will say. “This is a real moment for us to do that.”

Producers and commissioners are increasingly tuning into how to create climate-related...

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Before Toronto, Harvest premiered in Venice's official competition.

In 2023, Ken Loach premiered what the world assumes is his last film, The Old Oak, which earned a mixed reaction at Cannes and seems to have been quickly forgotten. Regardless of his swan song's reception, Loach's legacy is indisputable, and one year later, we can see that it extends beyond the films that bear his directing credit. Sixteen Films, a production company he co-founded with Rebecca O'Brien in 2002 that, until now, had been dedicated to Loach's directorial efforts, is now supporting the work of other filmmakers, a fair share of up-and-comers. As Loach recedes even further behind the scenes, Sixteen Films is reborn into a new life. Harvest and On Falling, two of their first productions, bowed at TIFF, though only the latter was a world premiere…...

“Harvest,” directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari and starring Caleb Landry Jones, has been acquired by Mubi in several key territories ahead of its premiere in competition at Venice Film Festival.

Mubi will distribute the film in the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Benelux and Latin America with release plans to be announced in the coming months.

Based on Jim Crace’s Booker prize shortlisted novel of the same name, “Harvest” takes place “over seven hallucinatory days” when a “village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears,” according to its official synopsis. “Townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity.”

Along with Landry Jones — who broke out in Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and won the Cannes best actor award for his performance in 2021’s “Nitram” — “Harvest” stars Harry Melling,...

Mubi has acquired key territories on Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest ahead of its world premiere in Competition at Venice Film Festival.

It has bought the film for UK-Ireland, Germany, Austria, Benelux and Latin America. Mubi will announce release plans in the coming months.

Adapted by Tsangari and Joslyn Barnes from Jim Crace’s novel of the same name, Harvest is a tragicomic take on a Western, in which a village in an undefined time and place disappears over seven hallucinatory days.

The cast includes Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling and Frank Dillane, plus Screen Stars of Tomorrow Arinze Kene,...

UK and Irish directors, actors, producers and locations are peppered throughout the official selection of the 2024 Venice Film Festival, which was unveiled today.

Harvest, produced by Rebecca O’Brien of the UK’s Sixteen Films, alongside New York-based Louverture Films, and Germany’s The Match Factory, is in competition. It is directed by Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari and shot in Scotland, with a UK cast including Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen and Thalissa Teixeira. BBC Film and Screen Scotland are among the backers.

Another competition title with UK ties is US filmmaker Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which is co-produced by...

UK and Irish directors, actors, producers and locations are peppered throughout the official selection of the 2024 Venice Film Festival, which was unveiled today.

Harvest, produced by Rebecca O’Brien of the UK’s Sixteen Films, alongside New York-based Louverture Films, and Germany’s The Match Factory, is in competition. It is directed by Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari and shot in Scotland, with a UK cast including Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen and Thalissa Teixeira. BBC Film and Screen Scotland are among the backers.

Another competition title with UK ties is US filmmaker Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which is co-produced by...

Venice Film Festival competition title “Harvest,” directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, is one of three films at the festival to be represented for sales by the Match Factory as well as being produced or co-produced by the company.

The other two are “Edge of Night,” the debut feature by German-Turkish director Türker Süer, screening in Horizons Extra, and “Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass,” an animated film by the Quay Brothers, playing in Venice Days.

Tsangari, the director of “Attenberg” (winner of Venice’s best actress award in 2010) and “Chevalier” (2015), returns to Venice competition with “Harvest.” Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.

In Tsangari’s tragicomic take on a Western, townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity.

The film...

Exclusive: Stan is saying goodbye to the Chalmers-Davis family.

The Australian streamer has put a fifth and final season of Bump into production, with filming underway in Sydney. The comedy-drama is Stan’s longest-running local scripted series, with the first season having launched back in January 2021.

The show is centered around ambitious teenage girl Oly, who unexpectedly has a baby, and the complications that follow for the Davis and Chalmers families.

The final season will hint at the future for the lead characters, jumping between past and present, as they face the cancer diagnosis of Oly’s mother Angie (Claudia Karvan) and try to celebrate the joy of Oly’s second pregnancy. Stan is providing the audience with a chance to be an extra by providing 30-second videos explaining what they’d like to see happen in the final episodes.

Nathalie Morris (We Were Dangerous), who plays Oly, will return...

Film can be a powerful political tool, whatever the intentions may be. At its best, cinema is an empathy machine that allows us to understand and relate to other people and broaden our perception of humanity. It can instill important principles and create a sense of history for people, using aesthetics to make ideology more manageable. For six decades, Ken Loach and his team have disseminated important films into the body politic, creating realist character studies that have the impact of a perfect pamphlet and the beauty of fine art. The Old Oak may be his final one.

The great Ken Loach will be 88 this year, and has essentially announced his retirement. Film Forum in New York will be screening more than 20 of his films, including The Old Oak, as a phenomenal retrospective of the artist's long career. He's been advised not to travel, but he'll be present through the power of his movies.

Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here taking you through what has been a whirlwind of a week in international TV and film. Do not stop here — please do read on. And sign up here.

Indie Movie “Game-Changer”

£1B worth of sweeteners: It was a potentially “game-changing” week for a floundering British indie film sector with the unveiling of a 40% tax relief on movies with budgets less than £15M ($19M) — a relief that trade body Pact says it has been calling for in some form or another since 2017 and which answers the prayers of Culture, Media & Sport Committee boss Caroline Dinenage. Jeremy Hunt’s budget was perhaps the most listened-to and most celebrated for a decade by the creative industries after the UK Chancellor unveiled the relief with fanfare alongside 40% business rates relief for big studios and improved VFX relief. All in all, Hunt and the UK treasury said that the...

Some of the biggest names in the world of British film have showered praise on the “game-changing” new 40% British indie film relief.

Announced earlier today by UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt following lobbying from the BFI and Pact for months, the relief will apply to movies made for less than £15M ($19M). Today’s move was coupled with a 5% increase in tax relief for UK VFX costs in film and high-end TV, and business rates relief of 40% for major studios.

Sixteen Films producer and Ken Loach collaborator Rebecca O’Brien joked that the “genuine game changer” has prompted her to rethink whether to stop making movies.

“It’s extraordinary,” she told Deadline shortly after the credit was announced. “It just gives me confidence and means if I can raise the money more easily, I can spend more time helping the production and making a good film rather than spending all my time...

UK-qualifying films budgeted between £1m and £15m will now receive tax relief of 40% following the introduction of the long-awaited “indie tax credit” aimed at reinvigorating the homegrown production sector.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt unveiled the changes in today’s (March 6) Spring budget.

He also introduced a VFX tax credit of 5%, with the 80% cap removed and a 40% relief on business rates for UK studio facilities.

Films and high-end TV (Hetv) programmes currently have a headline credit rate of 34%. This equates to 25.5% in actual relief, capped at 80% of core expenditure, but with no budget limit. The Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit (Avec), a reform from...

Oppenheimer was the major winner at the 2024 Bafta Film Awards, winning seven awards including best film.

Scroll down for full list of winners

The event was held tonight (February 18) at London’s Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank, with David Tennant on hosting duties for the first time.

Samantha Morton received the Bafta Fellowship, whilst film curator June Givanni was honoured with Bafta’s outstanding British contribution to cinema award.

More to follow

Full list of winners

Winners in bold

Best Film

Anatomy Of A Fall - Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion The Holdovers - Mark Johnson Killers Of The Flower Moon - Dan Friedkin,...

The 2024 Bafta Film Awards ceremony is taking place today (February 18) at London’s Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank.

The show started at around 4:45pm UK time and finishes at approximately 8pm, and will be broadcast with a time delay on BBC One starting at 7pm. Unlike last year’s ceremony, the final categories will not be broadcast live. David Tennant is on hosting duties.

Screen will be posting all the winners on this page as they are announced during the live ceremony (refresh the page for latest updates).

Christopher Nolan’s historical drama Oppenheimer leads the nominations with 13 nods.

It’s the biggest day in the British Film Industry’s calendar as the 2024 BAFTA Awards Ceremony is held at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank in London. Hosted by David Tennant and attended by British Academy of Film and Television Arts President Hrh Prince William, Hannah Waddingham will deliver an exclusive live music performance, in addition to Sophie Ellis-Bextor who will perform her iconic hit ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’. Samantha Morton to receive BAFTA Fellowship and June Givanni to receive Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award.

A full list of BAFTA winners can be found below the interviews.

Scott Davis and Colin Hart were on the red carpet for HeyUGuys. All the red carpet interviews follow.

2024 BAFTA Red Carpet + Winners Room Interviews

BAFTA 2024 Winners Room Interviews

BAFTA 2024 Winners Best Film

“Anatomy of a Fall” — Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion

“The Holdovers” — Mark Johnson

“Killers of the Flower Moon” — Dan Friedkin,...

If there was one puzzle from the 2023 Venice Film Festival, it concerned Caleb Landry Jones and the actor’s curious decision to conduct all his press arrangements for the Luc Besson thriller “Dogman” with a Scottish accent. As was later revealed, the Australian had taken a quick break from shooting U.K. drama “Harvest” on location in Scotland and was staying in character for the duration of his brief Italian detour.

Alongside honing Landry Jones’ vocal abilities, “Harvest,” being directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari (the Greek director’s first English-language film) and based on the book by Jim Crace, also marks the beginning of a new chapter for one of the U.K.’s best-known indie production companies.

Sixteen Films, co-founded by Ken Loach and producer Rebecca O’Brien in 2002, has been behind every film by the beloved and iconoclastic director over the last two decades, including “The Wind That Shakes the Barley,...

The Queen’s Gambit’s Harry Melling and Blue Jean star Rosy McEwen have joined Caleb Landry-Jones in Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest, as The Match Factory reveals a first look and launches sales at the European Film Market (EFM).

Further cast includes Arinzé Kene, Thalissa Teixeira and Frank Dillane.

Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time, disappears. A townsman-turned-farmer and benevolent lord of the manor (Melling) are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the modernity of the outside world, in this neo-Western.

The feature was written by Joslyn Barnes and Tsangari,...

French sales outfit Goodfellas has added Laura Carreira’s debut feature On Falling to its European Film Market (EFM) line-up.

The drama tells the story of a Portuguese warehouse picker working in Scotland. Trapped between the confines of her workplace and the solitude of her flatshare, she seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her sense of self.

Keeping alive Loach and Sixteen Films’ tradition, the cast features a mixture of actors and non-actors. Portuguese actor Joana Santos leads the cast, which features Inês Vaz, Piotr Sikora, Jake McGarry and Neil Leiper.

It...

“Poor Things” has performed well throughout this awards season, winning Best Comedy/Musical Film at the Golden Globes and snagging 11 Oscar nominations in total. That is the same number of awards the Searchlight Pictures movie was nominated for at the BAFTAs, where we predict it to perform well.

One person who is set to have a good night at the British film awards is Tony McNamara, who adapted Alasdair Gray‘s 1992 novel of the same name. McNamara previously worked with Emma Stone on “Cruella” and “The Favourite,” the latter of which was another Yorgos Lanthimos film. McNamara co-wrote that period piece with Deborah Davis. The duo was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars in 2019 but lost to “Green Book”.

However, they won the BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay, over “Cold War” (Janusz Głowacki and Paweł Pawlikowski), “Green Book,” “Roma” (Alfonso Cuarón), and “Vice” (Adam McKay). The film won six other BAFTAs in total,...

Exclusive: Goodfellas has acquired world sales rights for Emilio Estevez’s The Way: Chapter 2, reuniting the actor-director with the cast members of his original 2010 hit, father Martin Sheen, Yorick Van Wageningen and James Nesbitt.

The sequel revisits protagonist Tom (Sheen) a decade after his first pilgrimage on Spain’s El Camino de Santiago in the footsteps of his deceased son Daniel (Estevez), as he reconnects with his walking companions Joost (van Wageningen) and Jack (Nisbitt).

Now embedded with Doctors Without Borders in northern Nigeria, performing surgery in a war zone, Tom is sent a copy of Jack’s bestselling book based on their shared experience, in which a disturbing secret is revealed.

Enraged, he leaves to search for Jack and find answers to questions that have haunted him for a decade. His journey reunites him with Joost and leads them through Amsterdam, Dublin, Brussels and France before returning to Spain and the Camino.

Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer and Robert Downey Jr is Lewis Strauss in ‘Oppenheimer’ (Photo by Melinda Sue Gordon © Universal Pictures)

Oppenheimer continues with its awards season domination, picking up 13 2024 Ee BAFTA Film Awards nominations. BAFTA also found a lot to admire in Poor Things, nominating it 11 times in categories including Best Film and Leading Actress (Emma Stone).

Killers of the Flower Moon and The Zone of Interest received nine nominations, followed by Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, and Maestro with seven. All of Us Strangers was nominated in six categories, and Barbie and Saltburn received five nominations.

“The 38 films nominated by BAFTA voters today span an extraordinary range of genres and stories. The field this year is incredibly strong. More films were entered, making the selection process particularly tough for our voting members. The films and talented people nominated represent some of the most talked about films of the year,...

The 2024 BAFTA Award nominees have been unveiled, with Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” leading with 13 total nominations.

The epic period piece is up for Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Leading Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting Actress for Emily Blunt, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., as well as a slew of crafts categories.

The 77th BAFTA Awards will take place Sunday, February 18 at London’s Royal Festival Hall. David Tennant is hosting the ceremony.

Behind “Oppenheimer,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” landed 11 nominations including Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Leading Actress for Emma Stone. Lanthimos, however, was shut out of the Best Director category.

The BAFTA Award snubs don’t stop there: Despite “Killers of the Flower Moon” earning nine nominations including Best Film, director Martin Scorsese and Golden Globe-winning actress Lily Gladstone are not recognized in their respective categories. “Barbie...

This afternoon the full list of nominations for the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards were announced in London, with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things leading the nominees.

Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of Martin Amis’s The Zone of Interest received nine nominations, the same as Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Other notable films we’ll be looking out for on the night include Andrew Haigh’s brilliant and touching film All of Us Strangers, and the enthralling Anatomy of a Fall.

British films are well represented with Rye Lane, Scrapper and How to Have Sex among the nominees.

The 77th annual British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards will be held on Sunday, the 18th of February. We’ll see you there.

Full List of 2024 BAFTA Nominations

Best Film

Anatomy Of A Fall Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion

The Holdovers Mark Johnson

Killers Of The Flower Moon Dan Friedkin,...

Nominations for the 2024 BAFTAs have been revealed!

This year, Oppenheimer scored the most nominations with a total of 13. Poor Things received the second-most nominations this year with a total of 11.

There are some big surprises within the nominations including no nomination for Lily Gladstone and her director Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon. In addition, Barbie’s Greta Gerwig and Poor Things‘ Yorgos Lanthimos were not nominated in the Best Director category.

The British Academy announced the nominees for their annual awards on Thursday (January 10).

This year’s ceremony is set to take place on February 18 live from London, England with David Tennant hosting.

Keep reading to see the full list of nominees…

Outstanding British Film

“All of Us Strangers” — Andrew Haigh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Sarah Harvey

“How to Have Sex” — Molly Manning Walker, Emily Leo, Ivana MacKinnon, Konstantinos Kontovrakis

“Napoleon” — Ridley Scott, Mark Huffam, Kevin J. Walsh,...

Co-Production Market will support 34 feature film projects from around the world.

The 2024 Berlinale has selected 34 feature film projects for its Co-Production Market, including Sally Potter’s Alma.

The festival has also chosen 202 Berlinale Talents, and 14 titles for its Forum Special strand.

Scroll down for the full list of Co-Production Market projects

The 34 feature projects in the Co-Production Market hail from 27 countries, and were selected from 318 submissions – a slight increase on 2023.

Potter’s Alma follows a family battling survivor guilt and sibling rivalries while on an expedition to scatter the ashes of an archaeologist. It will be produced by Christopher Sheppard...

Caleb Landry Jones is set to star in U.K. drama Harvest from Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier) and produced by Ken Loach and Rebecca O’Brien’s Sixteen Films, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

News of the film answers a major question hanging over the Venice Film Festival, where Landry Jones touched down this week as the lead in Luc Besson’s dark thriller Dogman. At the film’s press conference on Thursday and in later interviews, Landry Jones spoke throughout with a thick Scottish accent, with Besson saying that he was method acting for a new role. “It’s not his normal voice,” the director explained. “He needs to stay in character.”

THR can now reveal that this role is for Harvest, Tsangari’s first feature since her multi-award-winning comedy-drama Chevalier.

Based on the award-winning 2013 novel of the same name by Jim Crace, the feature is to be...

Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber announced on Tuesday that they have acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Ken Loach’s final film “The Old Oak” with a planned release in early 2024.

Zeitgeist and Kino Lorber previously released Loach’s 2020 film “Sorry We Missed You” and will first release “The Old Oak” at the Film Forum in New York before expanding it to arthouses nationwide.

“We’re delighted that Zeitgeist has taken ‘The Old Oak’ for distribution in the U.S. It’s great that they’ve chosen to partner with us again after working together on ‘Sorry We Missed You,'” said Loach and his producing partner Rebecca O’Brien in a statement. “We feel that Zeitgeist Films is ideally placed to help our film reach the widest possible audience in the territory and know they will release the film with gusto.”

“The Old Oak” follows Tj, the owner of...

Exclusive: Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber have acquired all U.S. rights to Ken Loach’s Cannes Competition entry The Old Oak, which has been mooted to be the veteran filmmaker’s last movie.

The Old Oak, which has a screenplay from Loach’s frequent collaborator Paul Laverty, will open theatrically in early 2024 at Film Forum in New York with a national release set to follow.

The movie revolves around The Old Oak, the last standing pub in a once thriving mining village in northern England, and a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its proprietor Tj are a fond presence to their customers. When a group of Syrian refugees move into the floundering village, a decisive rift fueled by prejudices develops between the community and its newest inhabitants.

Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex and Ken Loach’s final film The Old Oak are among the 13 titles that received cash awards through the BFI’s Global Screen Fund.

The BFI announced the full list of recipients who received support from the £7m per year fund this afternoon. The list also includes the Cannes Competiton title Club Zero, starring Mia Wasikowska, and In Camera, written and directed by Naqqash Khalid, which screened at Karlovy Vary. Scroll down for the full list.

Financed through the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (Dcms), the BFI said today that a further £743,225 was allocated through the fund’s International Distribution strand. To date this strand has made 47 awards totaling over £1.7 million, the BFI said.

UK Global Screen Fund applications are currently open to international distribution festival launch support and international sales support, both assessed on a rolling basis. The fund will...

13 titles have received funding in the latest round from the £7m per year UK Global Screen Fund.

A raft of UK Cannes titles are among the 13 features to receive awards given out by the British Film Institute (BFI) in the latest round of funding from the £7m per year UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf), supporting international opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector.

These include Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero, on which Good Chaos’ Mike Goodridge is the UK producer and will receive the award; Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex, with the funding going to Emily Leo...

Taking part will be Mia Bays, director of the BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Fund and Ama Ampadu and Louise Ortega, the fund’s senior production and production executives.

The British Filmmaking Fund (BFI) team will discuss details of how the fund will work for UK and international filmmakers at today’s (May 22) UK Pavilion.

Taking part will be Mia Bays, director of the BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Fund and Ama Ampadu and Louise Ortega, the fund’s senior production and production executives.

Telefilm Canada’s Mehernaz Lentin will moderate the panel (14:00-15:00).

Bays said: “We are inspired by...

The Old Oak is about the rehousing of a group of Syrian refugees in a run-down former mining town

It’s June 2022, a week of rail workers’ strikes are under way and refugees are in the news whether arriving from Ukraine or via boats across the channel despite the threat of transportation to Rwanda. Ken Loach and his old compadres, writer Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O’Brien, could not have chosen a more pertinent time for shooting their latest film, The Old Oak, which premieres at the Cannes film festival this month.

The story is set in an anonymous former mining town decades after the pit closures. Shops are boarded up, money is scarce, divisions over the 1984 miners’ strike linger. There is still a pub, the eponymous Old Oak, run by a former miner, Tj Ballantyne, played by Dave Turner, but it is on its last legs, kept afloat by...

Revised BFI Filmmaking Fund and UK tax credits system up for discussion in UK Pavilion events programme.

The British Film Institute (BFI) has named its roster of speakers taking part in this year’s series of events hosted at the UK Pavilion in Cannes, including talent talks from official selection filmmakers such as How To Have Sex director Molly Manning Walker, The Old Oak producer Rebecca O’Brien and The Settlers producer Emily Morgan, plus industry figures such as the BFI’s Mia Bays and We Are Parable’s Anthony Andrews.

Conversations will explore developing talent, co-production, film financing, the UK...

Revised BFI Filmmaking Fund and UK tax credits system up for discussion in UK Pavilion events programme.

The British Film Institute (BFI) has named its roster of speakers taking part in this year’s series of events hosted at the UK Pavilion in Cannes, including talent talks from official selection filmmakers such as How To Have Sex director Molly Manning Walker, The Old Oak producer Rebecca O’Brien and The Settlers producer Emily Morgan, plus industry figures such as the BFI’s Mia Bays and We Are Parable’s Anthony Andrews.

Conversations will explore developing talent, co-production, film financing, the UK...

Titles include Ken Loach’s ‘The Old Oak’ and Molly Manning Walker’s ‘How To Have Sex’.

The Cannes Film Festival will have a strong UK presence in 2023, with directors Ken Loach, Molly Manning Walker, Steve McQueen and Jonathan Glazer all heading to the Croisette, plus a peppering of heavyweight UK-produced titles in Official Selection. It follows the 2022 Competition in which no films by UK directors made the cut.

Two-time Palme d’Or winner Loach is in competition, as expected, with The Old Oak. Loach’s 15th film at the French festival focuses on the arrival of Syrian refugees to a once thriving,...

Dunn was a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2017

Loran Dunn, UK producer and 2017 Screen Star of Tomorrow, has been awarded the 2023 Simon Relph memorial bursary fund of £15,000 by Creative UK.

Dunn is based in Manchester and founder of production company Delaval Film, through which she produced Jason Barker’s documentary A Deal With The Universe which world premiered at BFI’s Flare Festival in 2018.

The producer currently has two features in the works - Hoard from 2022 Screen Star of Tomorrow Luna Carmoon, which is aiming to launch at a festival this year; and Jack Benjamin Gill’s Beef which...