Exclusive: The British Independent Film Awards has selected 30 filmmakers for the latest run of its Springboard training programme, including Pretty Red Dress director Dionne Edwards andSky Peals director Moin Hussain.
The latest iteration of the Springboard programme will involve 12 directors, 10 writers and eight producers. Running until February 2026, it will offer technical and professional training, mentoring, networking and access to resources to allow the filmmakers to develop their second feature film.
Scroll down for the full list of participants
The programme is supported by Prime Video and the ScreenSkills Film Skills Fund, with additional support from Film Finances International and Molinare.
The latest iteration of the Springboard programme will involve 12 directors, 10 writers and eight producers. Running until February 2026, it will offer technical and professional training, mentoring, networking and access to resources to allow the filmmakers to develop their second feature film.
Scroll down for the full list of participants
The programme is supported by Prime Video and the ScreenSkills Film Skills Fund, with additional support from Film Finances International and Molinare.
- 5/28/2025
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sherlock star Mark Gatiss is writing and starring in a British TV drama about a bookshop owner who helps police solve crimes.
Bookish will be a six-part series for UKTV crime drama network Alibi set in post-war London in 1946. Gatiss, the co-creator of BBC shows such as Sherlock and The League of Gentlemen and Netflix/BBC’s Dracula and actor in films including Operation Mincemeat and Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning, is the creator.
The series will follow Gabriel Book (Gatiss), an “erudite and unconventional” sleuth who cracks mysterious cases from his antiquated bookshop, using the thousands of books that line his shelves to provide him with the knowledge that he needs. Around him are a gathering of “loveable, damaged misfits who he informally protects, cajoles and mentors.”
Starring alongside Gatiss is Polly Walker (Bridgerton, Line of Duty), who plays Book’s colourful wife Trottie. She is charismatic and adventurous,...
Bookish will be a six-part series for UKTV crime drama network Alibi set in post-war London in 1946. Gatiss, the co-creator of BBC shows such as Sherlock and The League of Gentlemen and Netflix/BBC’s Dracula and actor in films including Operation Mincemeat and Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning, is the creator.
The series will follow Gabriel Book (Gatiss), an “erudite and unconventional” sleuth who cracks mysterious cases from his antiquated bookshop, using the thousands of books that line his shelves to provide him with the knowledge that he needs. Around him are a gathering of “loveable, damaged misfits who he informally protects, cajoles and mentors.”
Starring alongside Gatiss is Polly Walker (Bridgerton, Line of Duty), who plays Book’s colourful wife Trottie. She is charismatic and adventurous,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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