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Calamity Films, the UK producer behind Judy, for which Renée Zellweger recently won an Oscar, has named Sam Gordon as its head of development. Gordon joins from BBC Films, where he worked as a development executive on projects including recent Sundance pic Herself and the upcoming People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan, as well as Judy which the BBC backed. He also had prior roles at Magnolia Mae Films and Baby Cow, working on Stan & Ollie and Philomena. At Calamity, Gordon will report to founder David Livingstone and will work across film and TV projects.

The fourth Seafic lab, which nurtures Southeast Asian films, will welcome filmmakers including Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul for its 2020 edition. Five projects will take part, including a new feature from Locarno Golden Leopard-winning A Land Imagined producer Fran Borgia, and Locarno-winning The Science Of Fictions producer Yulia Evina Bhar. The teams this year hail from Indonesia,...

“Ontario is open for business, open for jobs and open for film and television productions.”

The government of Ontario has set up the Ministers’ Film and Television Advisory Panel to give officials expert advice on how to grow the Canadian province’s film and television industries.

First announced in the 2019 Ontario budget, the panel will report jointly to the minister of heritage, sport, tourism and culture Industries (Mhstci) Lisa MacLeod and the minister of finance Rod Phillips. Jim Mirkopoulos, vice-president, of Cinespace Film Studios, will serve as chair and Christina Jennings, founder, chairman and CEO of film, TV and digital production company Shaftesbury,...

Ellie Bamber stars, with Owen McDonnell and Michael Shea.

Principal photography has begun in Northern Ireland on Stranger With A Camera, the debut feature from Oscar-winning producer Oorlagh George.

Written and directed by George, the project was developed through the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing labs. The filmmaker won an Oscar for producing short film, The Shore, directed by her father, Terry George, whose feature credits include In The Name Of The Father and Some Mother’s Son.

Stranger With A Camera stars Ellie Bamber (BBC’s Les Misérables) with Owen McDonnell (Killing Eve), Michael Shea (Derry Girls) and Brian Milligan...

Ellie Bamber stars, with Owen McDonnell and Michael Shea.

Principal photography has begun in Northern Ireland on Stranger With A Camera, the debut feature from Oscar-winning producer Oorlagh George.

Written and directed by George, the project was developed through the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing labs. The filmmaker won an Oscar for producing short film, The Shore, directed by her father, Terry George, whose feature credits include In The Name Of The Father and Some Mother’s Son.

Stranger With A Camera stars Ellie Bamber (BBC’s Les Misérables) with Owen McDonnell (Killing Eve), Michael Shea (Derry Girls) and Brian Milligan...

Ellie Bamber stars, with Owen McDonnell and Michael Shea.

Principal photography has begun in Northern Ireland on Stranger With A Camera, the debut feature from Oscar-winning producer Oorlagh George.

Written and directed by George, the project was developed through the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing labs. The filmmaker won an Oscar for producing short film, The Shore, directed by her father, Terry George, whose feature credits include In The Name Of The Father and Some Mother’s Son.

Stranger With A Camera stars Ellie Bamber (BBC’s Les Misérables) with Owen McDonnell (Killing Eve), Michael Shea (Derry Girls) and Brian Milligan...