News

Responsibility, a comedy about an ex-convict in need of some quick cash, won the audience vote at the inaugural Funny Features pitching session at theGlasgow Film Festival (Gff) this week.

The Glasgow-set feature follows a 25-year-old Sikh man whose desperate decisions have led to a stint in prison, and now is stuck working as a dishwasher at his family’s restaurant. Kaljeven Lally has written the script and plans to direct, with Isabella Bassett and Jena Hunter producing.

The pitching session, which took place on March 6, was the culmination of a comedy lab backed by the BFI Creative Challenge Fund,...

Responsibility, a comedy about an ex-convict in need of some quick cash, won the audience vote at the inaugural Funny Features pitching session at theGlasgow Film Festival (Gff) this week.

The Glasgow-set feature follows a 25-year-old Sikh man whose desperate decisions have led to a stint in prison, and now is stuck working as a dishwasher at his family’s restaurant. Kaljeven Lally has written the script and plans to direct, with Isabella Bassett and Jena Hunter producing.

The pitching session, which took place on March 6, was the culmination of a comedy lab backed by the BFI Creative Challenge Fund,...

Glasgow Film Festival’s UK-wide comedy lab Funny Features has selected nine projects for its inaugural edition, running now until next year’s festival.

Projects include mental health comedy Committed, written by Philip Wright and produced by 2022 Screen Rising Star Scotland Reece Cargan. The project follows a one-man trainwreck as he rebels against his sectioning in a psychiatric hospital.

Scroll down for the full list of projects

Also selected is Mister Uterus, in which a trans man finds that pregnancy leads him to re-evaluate his ideas of what being a man is all about. Written by Jason Barker, it is...

The short-form initiative aims to build “a more inclusive film and television industry”.

The UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts) has named the six writer-director teams who will take part in its inaugural short-form incubator programme, Disney Imagine UK, including disability rights campaigner and star of Jonathan’s Glazer Under The Skin, Adam Pearson.

A statement from the Nfts described the programme as having “an emphasis on building a more inclusive film and television industry” and seeking teams “from under-represented backgrounds” to participate.

The teams will develop their films based around the theme of ‘evolve’ and with a...

Disney and the National Film And Television School have partnered on a new short film incubator program where six up-and-coming writer/director teams will create a short project with a £25,000 production budget.

The initiative is titled Disney Imagine UK, and the partnering organizations today said the mission will be to build a “more inclusive film and television industry.”

The Nfts received almost 400 applications for the program. The final six writer/director teams are: Adam Pearson and Tom Levinge, Alvin Yu and Charley Packham, Tom Dunn and Kevin Morosky, Milly Garnier and Charlotte Paradise, Laura Jayne Tunbridge and Danielle Goff, and Marcus Anthony Thomas and Jordi Morera.

Each duo will be tasked with developing a short based on a uniquely personal story centered on the theme of “Evolve.”

The final collection of six shorts will be considered for premieres across Disney platforms, submitted to international film festivals, and featured in a...