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Neon Films producer Nicky Bentham, Lionsgate UK head Marie-Claire Benson and Independent Talent’s Jane Epstein have joined the high-profile speaker line-up for Screen International’s ‘The Future of UK Film’ summit, to be held on September 24, 2024, in London at BFI Southbank.

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Bentham’s credits include Roger Michell’s 2020 title The Duke, starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren, and the upcoming Brides, the feature directorial debut of Nadia Falls.

As executive vice president and head of Lionsgate’s UK motion picture group, Benson steers a slate that has included Oscar- and Bafta-winner Anatomy Of A Fall, and...

Industry platform awarded several titles with funding and in-kind prizes.

Nothing In Its Place by Turkish filmmaker Burak Çevik, Nadia by Korean director Moon Chang-yong and Mimang by Korean director Kim Taeyang won the top prizes tonight (May 2) at the 15th Jeonju Project industry programme.

The Jeonju Cinema Project: Next Edition prizes – awarded to an international and Korean feature – went to Nothing In Its Place, which focuses on the night of Turkey’s bloodiest massacre in 1978, and Nadia, a documentary about the children who live in poverty in Indonesia’s trash mountain. Each will receive a production investment of KW...

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The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles has unveiled its documentary lineup, led by Loup Bureau’s Tranchées (Trenches), shot in the Donbas region of Ukraine months before Russia launched a full-scale invasion of the nation; the film focuses on local soldiers fighting against Moscow-supported separatists in a battle for survival.

The festival, formerly known as Colcoa, plans to screen five feature and three TV documentaries as part its nonfiction program during the event that runs Oct. 10-16. The feature docs booked include Andre Bonzel’s Et j’aime a la fureur (Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone), focusing on the filmmaker reflecting on his life; Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai’s Allons Enfants (Rookies), a breakdance documentary about talented, ambitious kids from diverse backgrounds in a swanky Paris high school; Francois Busnel’s Seule La Terre est Eternelle (The Earth is All...

Marilyn Hall, the Emmy Award-winning producer and wife of Monty Hall, has died at the age of 90. Hall won an Emmy for producing the 1985 TV movie “Do You Remember Love,” starring Joanne Woodward and Richard Kiley. Her other credits include 1982’s “A Woman Called Golda,” starring Ingrid Bergman; “Nadia,” the 1984 biopic about Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci; the 1989 PBS miniseries “The Ginger Tree”; and the 2007 feature film “The Little Traitor.” In the theater, she’s credited as an associate producer on the musical “Jelly’s Last Jam” and “Angels in America.” Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2017 (Photos) Hall married her husband,...

Is there any worldwide event more compelling than the Olympics? We doubt it. Maybe that's why so many films have been made about the trials and triumphs of athletes competing in the summer and winter Games. Usually based on the lives of real people with extraordinary skills and discipline, Olympic movies of all varieties are nearly impossible to resist. Join us as we run the gamut of Olympic cinema with recommendations that include documentaries, Academy Award-winning feature films, and deliciously watchable made-for-tv movies. Next stop, Sochi in 2014! Nadia (1984) Dir. Alan Cooke Don't let anyone's reputation intimidate you. All it means is that they used to be good; they must prove that they still are. With many excellent made-for-tv movies about Olympic athletes to choose from (Wilma, Breaking the Surface, etc), Nadia, based on the experiences of Nadia Comaneci, the 14-year-old Romanian gymnast who scored seven perfect '10s' at the...