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The BFI has appointed Mia Bays as the new director of its Film Fund.

Joining for an initial three-year term, Bays will lead the strategic and cultural direction of the BFI’s investment of National Lottery funds into supporting U.K. feature film production. At approximately £30 million a year, it is the largest public fund in the UK for film and filmmakers, as well as new and emerging talent through BFI Network.

Bays is currently director-at-large for Birds’ Eye View, a U.K. charity that centres the female perspective in film and campaigns for gender equality in the industry. She will remain in a consultancy role with Birds’ Eye View and intends to return there at the end of her three-year contract with the BFI Film Fund.

Bays will take up her new role in October, based between London and Nottingham.

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Since winning Berlin’s European Shooting Star Award for the low-budget British crime drama Ill Manors in 2012, Riz Ahmed has burst onto the film and TV scene in somewhat spectacular fashion. In just eight years, he’s defected to the Rebel Alliance in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, joined the Marvel Universe with Venom, faced assassination attempts in Jason Bourne, won an Emmy for HBO’s The Night Of and amassed further acclaim for roles in Nightcrawler, The Sisters Brothers and Girls, while also keeping his musical roots alive with the band Swet Shop Boys, who have performed at Coachella and Glastonbury. His Virtual ...

Since winning Berlin’s European Shooting Star Award for the low-budget British crime drama Ill Manors in 2012, Riz Ahmed has burst onto the film and TV scene in somewhat spectacular fashion. In just eight years, he’s defected to the Rebel Alliance in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, joined the Marvel Universe with Venom, faced assassination attempts in Jason Bourne, won an Emmy for HBO’s The Night Of and amassed further acclaim for roles in Nightcrawler, The Sisters Brothers and Girls, while also keeping his musical roots alive with the band Swet Shop Boys, which has performed at Coachella and Glastonbury. This year ...

A violent power struggle threatens to tear a motorcycle gang apart, in a gritty crime thriller featuring the stars of Wolf Creek 2 and The Neon Demon, from the makers of Black Mass and Ill Manors. Sons of Anarchy meets Macbeth in Stephen McCallum’s directorial debut, about leadership tussles in an outlaw motorcycle club down …

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To celebrate the home entertainment release of Outlaws, available on DVD 18th February 2019, we have a copy of the DVD up for grabs, courtesy of Altitude Entertainment. A violent power struggle threatens to tear a motorcycle gang apart, in a gritty crime thriller featuring the stars of Wolf Creek 2 and The Neon Demon, from the makers of Black Mass and Ill Manors.

Sons of Anarchy meets Macbeth in Stephen McCallum’s directorial debut, about leadership tussles in an outlaw motorcycle club down under. Following the bleak, unforgiving path of recent Australian crime classics Animal Kingdom and Snowtown and Chopper, Outlaws (previously known as 1%) is a brash and brutal crime thriller about loyalty and revenge. Ryan Corr, who was put through hell in Wolf Creek 2, is plunged into another maelstrom here as would-be biker king Paddo. A bulked-up Matt Nable (Ra’s al Ghul from the TV series Arrow), who also co-wrote the film,...

South-east London isn’t always the perfect match for the glamour of the big screen. With The Bromley Boys on the horizon, here are six brave productions that buck the trend

When a film is set in London, it can often feel like the whole thing was directed by the tourist board. There’ll be an aerial shot of the London Eye. The Shard will glint in the background. There’ll be taxis by the bucketload. If you’re shooting Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction, characters will attend aggressively sexualised therapy sessions right at the top of the Gherkin. It’s all very narrow and heavy on the landmarks.

Sometimes the suburbs get a look-in, but not all of them. North and west London may have featured in everything from Shaun of the Dead to Bend It Like Beckham, and east London might have been used as a shorthand for...

From Diane Keaton’s new film to the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Venus, the over-60s are taking up too much screentime. It’s time to fight back

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If the generational chasm exposed by last week’s election came as shock, you clearly haven’t been watching British movies. Young people have a raw enough deal already – austerity, student debt, unaffordable housing, Ed Sheeran – but British cinema has been rubbing their noses in it for a while, serving them grim tales of broken families and criminal career paths, from ’hood dramas like Kidulthood and Ill Manors to arthouse downers like Fish Tank and last month’s The Levelling, in which a Somerset teen puts her studies on hold to come and clear out the family stables – literally and metaphorically. That’s what you’ve got to look forward to,...

British screen star Mem Ferda (Pusher, The Devil’s Double, Ill Manors) is clearly set on bringing British Indie films to the forefront of world cinema. With his recent starring role in London Heist due to be released by Lionsgate UK July 17th (2017) and the recent release of the award winning feature Smoking Guns, Mem […]

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Show almost anyone a picture of Riz Ahmed and they’ll be able to place him in something. It could be from Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker’s 2008 Big Brother zombie invasion satire, Dead Set. It might be as Aaron Kalloor, the Mark Zuckerberg techno genius who occupied one of the more interesting threads from Jason Bourne. More realistically, it’ll be from last year’s billion dollar Star Wars blockbuster, Rogue One, in which he played conflicted pilot Bodhi Rook. The point is, you can’t pigeon hole the guy.

Take this week’s City of Tiny Lights, in which Ahmed plays a London private eye investigating the case of a missing sex worker. The film might drown in its own dimly lit gloom, but the fact you stick with it is down to another chameleonic performance from the young Brit. You can read our review here.

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There's a scene early on in Brotherhood, the concluding chapter in Noel Clarke's British Hood trilogy, in which his Sam Peel checks himself out in a changing room mirror after a rigorous gym session. He ends up sadly patting his emerging belly and you realise that whatever his original intentions for this series, Sam has become his Rocky Balboa.

Having played the antagonist in 2006's Kidulthood and then switched gears in the hit 2008 sequel Adulthood to show the difficulties of that character's life after being released from prison, Brotherhood ties up a lot of loose ends but also rediscovers Sam a little further down the line, much like Sylvester Stallone brought back his most iconic character in Rocky Balboa or Creed. Sam the character has nothing like the innate sympathy that the Italian Stallion evokes, but the connecting tissue in all...

If you didn’t see his break-out role in one of the century’s best comedies, Four Lions, then we imagine Riz Ahmed first landed on your radar as the doomed assistant to Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler. Along with his high-profile performances in The Night Of, Rogue One, and Jason Bourne this year, one of the two Tiff films he has is the starring vehicle City of Tiny Lights, as noted in our fall festival preview.

Directed by Dredd‘s Pete Travis, it follows Ahmed as a London detective who gets entangled in a missing-girl case as a complex web of lies bubble up. We now have the first clip thanks to THR, which shows Ahmed on the case as he visits his ex-girlfriend at a local bar. Check out the clip below for the film also starring Cush Jumbo, James Floyd, Billie Piper, and Roshan Seth.

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Reintroducing loyal fans to the tortured Carlton Leech (Ricci Harnett – The Rise And Fall Of A White Collar Hooligan, 28 Days Later), we pick up with our hero a shadow of his former self following the murder of three of his closest friends and fellow gang members. Fearing for his own life and self prescribing drugs on top of alcohol, Carlton must find the strength to fight in order to regain his place in the criminal underworld. That is until circumstances conspire to place him at the heart of what might just become his final job.

Rise Of The Footsoldier 2 sees the return of one of the most feared men in home entertainment history. Released in cinemas from 11th December and on demand, Blu-ray and DVD from December 26th courtesy of Signature Entertainment, the film also features legendary actor Steven Berkoff (Rambo, A Clockwork Orange) Luke Mably (28 Days Later,...

Three years ago Ed Skrein broke through on the big screen with roles in Brit flicks Piggy and Ill Manors. Now, after a brief stop over on Game of Thrones, he's poised to become Hollywood next big action star thanks to The Transporter Refuelled, a fresh take on the franchise previously led by Jason Statham.

Beyond that Skrein will be heading into Fox's Marvel universe to play assassin Ajax in Deadpool. Digital Spy caught up with the fast-rising actor to discuss his two hotly-anticipated movies.

How did Transporter Refuelled get pitched to you - is this a reboot or sequel to the previous films?

"From the beginning, everyone's always spoken about it in terms of when they would change personnel on Bond, that it would keep the same variables and the same things that the franchise is known for. But the change of personnel would change quite a lot of things,...

First announced at Cannes two years ago, Luc Besson and his EuropaCorp accomplices' Transporter reboot is now almost upon us. Ed Skrein (Ill Manors and, more recently, Deadpool's Ajax) takes over the driving seat from Jason Statham this time in The Transporter Refuelled, directed by Camille Delamarre (Brick Mansions). And here's the latest trailer, in which the unusually decent Audi driver hurts a number of fools and wrecks a number of vehicles, as is traditional and required. There's also a snazzy jump over a plane. We do love a good car jump.Should you be wondering, the re-casting of the main role has not also prompted the creation of a new character. This is not, we're to accept, a different transporter, but the very same Frank Martin (although we're possibly in prequel territory, which explains the hair). Martin is, you'll recall, the driver who never changes the deal and...

Mem Ferda is widely known for his roles as villains and crooks (Gunned Down, Ill Manors and The Devil's Double) and as a producer of indie horror films (Truth Or Dare, Mania, Desolation). Now Ferda is giving a go as a compassionate character in the upcoming British-American Rom-Com Miss You Already.

'Miss You Already', a British-American romantic comedy set for release later in the year, shows London based actor Mem Ferda’s soft side as he plays Ahmet, a friendly taxi driver. Starring Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette and Dominic Cooper, Ferda makes an appearance alongside some of Hollywood’s greatest actors and can be seen in the brand new trailer for the movie.

Directed by the woman behind the highly successful Twilight films, Catherine Hardwicke, Miss you Already portrays the relationship between Jess and Milly, two childhood best friends. Both happily married, their lives are transformed when one...

You’d be forgiven for thinking that Europa Corp. and 20th Century Fox would have called time on The Transporter series following the departure of hardboiled action veteran Jason Statham, but low and behold, seven years after the previous installment, an all-new trilogy beckons.

It’s one that will rev into action later this year with The Transporter Refueled, which ushers franchise newcomer Ed Skrein into the title role. Best known for his work on The Tunnel and Ill Manors, along with a part in next year’s Deadpool, the actor will get behind the wheel for Camille Delamarre’s soft reboot – one which seemingly retains the globe-trotting heist action from the original trilogy.

Mind you, The Stath brought a considerable amount of gravitas to the role of Frank Martin, lending a palpable sense of charm to an otherwise generic set-up. It’s understood Refueled will kick Statham’s character to the kerb,...

There may be a new Transporter in town but the game hasn’t changed too much since the Jason Statham era. At least, not judging by the new trailer for The Transporter Refuelled. Click on the YouTube link to blow it up… pretty much literally.Ill Manors’ Ed Skrein is the man stepping into the sharp suit as deliveryman-with-a-difference Frank Martin. It’s business as usual for Frank in a promo set to The Heavy's trailer favourite 'How You Like Me Now?’ There's car chases, beat downs, quick cuts and extended sequences where villains speechify and then Frank opens whole barrels of kick-ass. The rules - never change the deal, no names, never open the package - remain the same but the villains are a lot nicer looking this time out.Brick Mansions man Camille Delamarre is directing this one, working from a script that producer Luc Besson handed to...

Deadpool: After repeated rumors, Ed Skrein (above in 2012's Ill Manors) has now confirmed that he is playing the villain in the upcoming Deadpool. Similar to how Morena Baccharin revealed her role in the movie, Skrein shared a photo of his on-set chair with his character's name (Ajax) on it. In the comics, Ajax tries to kill the hero (Ryan Reynolds) before going on the run himself, eventually seeking revenge. We'll have to wait until the movie opens in theaters on February 12, 2016, to see how it all plays out. [Twitter via Collider]   She's All That: A new version of She's All That, the teen romantic comedy released in 1999, is heading to the big screen. The original starred Freddie Prinze as a caddish young man who makes a bet with his best friend...

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Deadpool: Who will be the Deadpool villain? After repeated rumors, Ed Skrein (above in 2012's Ill Manors) has now confirmed that he will be the bad guy. Similar to how Morena Baccharin revealed her role in the movie, Skrein shared a photo of his on-set chair with his character's name (Ajax) on it. In the comics, Ajax tries to kill the hero (Ryan Reynolds) before going on the run himself, eventually seeking revenge. We'll have to wait until the movie opens in theaters on February 12,...

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With filming well under way in Vancouver, Deadpool adds another cast member, with English actor/rapper Ed Skrein (Ill Manors, the upcoming The Transporter Refueled) joining Ryan Reynolds as the one and only Deadpool, T.J. Miller as his sidekick Weasel, Morena Baccarin's shapeshifter Copy Cat, and Gina Carano as mutant Angel Dust for Tim Miller's long awaited comic book adaption. #deadpool #ajax pic.twitter.com/wfyRU9i9fV — Ed Skrein (@edskrein) April 7, 2015 Skrein will be taking on the role of Ajax, a powerful killing machine who feels no pain, and, in teh comics, one of the people responsible for the rogue experiment that turned Wade Wilson into the wise cracking, fast healing, very much insane Deadpool. With the plot revolving around our favorite red suited mercenary going after those who made him the way he is, expect Skrein and Reynolds to toe to toe when Deadpool finally hits the big screen next year.

You pretty much know what to expect from a Transporter film: fisticuffs, flash cars and attractive women. But what you also usually expect is Jason Statham gravel-growling and scowling his way through the running time. Things have changed for this reboot, with Ill Manors’ Ed Skrein stepping into his sharp suit as Frank Martin. The first trailer for The Transporter Refueled is now online via Apple.Mostly it’s business as usual for Frank: there is a package (in this case, two bewigged women) to be delivered somewhere for shady types and a lot of dangerous folk who would rather he didn’t make it. Cue car chases, beat downs, quick cuts and extended sequences where villains make speeches and then Frank fights everyone around. But there are also the odd nods to the fact that time moves on and things have changed a little.Skrein doesn’t quite seem...

Exclusive: Salon Pictures readies Duchenne documentary.

Zodiak Rights has boarded documentary The Greatest Ironman which follows a father’s attempts to raise awareness of Duchenne a fatal muscle-wasting disease affecting his son.

The Greatest Ironman, produced by fledgling indie Salon Pictures, is due to begin filming next month and will track Alex Smith as he bids to complete a triathlon in a record-breaking time while carrying his 8 year old boy.

Peter Williams MBE is directing the film which will air as a 60 or 90 minute feature.

It will be produced by Salon’s Paul Van Carter and Nick Taussig, whose two sons also suffer from the disease.

Zodiak Rights’ head of factual Emily Elisha told Broadcast it was a “truly inspirational” story. “The team at Zodiak felt very moved by the original taster for the film which at its heart has the story of a father giving his all, to a physical extreme, for his son...

While the City Sleeps: Gyllenhaal Gets His Money Shot in Gilroy’s Debut

You’ll be hard pressed to find a more enjoyably witty criticism of modern exploitative media tactics taken to a new extreme than Dan Gilroy’s viciously adept directorial debut, Nightcrawler. Humanity’s morbid curiosity with the grisly, disturbing, and depraved happenings in the world around us has long tainted the art of journalism and mass media, and has thus been depicted for ages already in the cinema. Gilroy’s film owes as much to Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (1951) as it does Sidney Lumet’s Network (1976), upping the action ante with the growing Gilroy stamp (his brother directed Michael Clayton and the last Bourne film). And yet, it’s an excitingly well written dark hearted treatise with a vitriolic little statement all its own, a glorious new love letter to the seedy underside of Los Angeles,...

Former Scott Free London exec Liza Marshall and Kick-Ass and One Chance producer Kris Thykier are partnering in new UK-based production company, Archery Pictures. The pair will work across film and television with Thykier shuttering his PeaPie Films and moving both the staff and development slate over to Archery. He’s currently in post on Woman In Gold with Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds, is producing Kasper Barfoed’s Summer of ‘92, and exec producing John Wells’ Bradley Cooper-starrer Adam Jones for The Weinstein Company. Upcoming releases, Stephen Daldry’s Trash, and Asif Kapadia’s Ali & Nino will go out under the PeaPie banner.

Marshall is a respected exec who recently stepped down from her role as head of Ridley Scott’s Scott Free London which she established in 2009. Her producing and exec producing credits include Before I Go To Sleep with Nicole Kidman, Welcome To The Punch starring James McAvoy...

What's better than scoring a free horror movie on DVD? Scoring two of them of course! That being said right now we have your exclusive chance to take home Both Zombinator and Piggy on us! Read on for details.

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A town relies on one man to save them from planned destruction in The Zombinator, coming to DVD and VOD May 13 from Inception Media Group.

While filming a documentary in a small Ohio town, a group of college students come face to face with the undead, turning the class project into an horrific nightmare.

Behind the zombie takeover is an evil corporation intent on lowering the town’s population,...

A total of £2.2m ($3.7m) to be invested in London talent over the next three years; nearly £1m ($1.6m) to be spent on archive project.

Film London has launched the next phase of its low-budget filmmaking scheme, Microwave, at a celebration of its 10th anniversary.

Film London Microwave will be backed by the British Film Institute (BFI) for the first time in addition to existing partners BBC and Creative Skillset, and will hold a purse of £2.2m ($3.7m) to be invested in London’s talent over three years.

It follows a first slate that included Hong Khaou’s Lilting, which stars Ben Whishaw and picked up a cinematography award at Sundance earlier this year, as well as Shifty and Ill Manors..

The new iteration of Microwave will develop and train up to 36 filmmaking teams over three years, and see filmmakers undergo a more intensive period of development to hone scripts, stories and skills...

What is it about the visage of a dude wearing a pig snout that just screams horror movie psycho? Hopefully the latest slasher flick Piggy will be able to answer that question and much more! Read on for details!

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A grieving brother takes justice into his own hands with the help of a new friend in the bloody revenge thriller Piggy, slashing up DVD and VOD May 13 from Inception Media Group.

When John (Neil Maskell; Kill List, Atonement, Basic Instinct 2) is brutally murdered, his shy, mild-mannered brother, Joe (Martin Compston; The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Red Road), finds solace in Piggy (Paul Anderson; The Sweeney, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), one of John’s long-time friends.

Taking the reclusive, grieving brother under his wing, Piggy teaches Joe his gritty, vigilante ways. As their friendship grows, Joe finds himself in an increasingly dangerous, murky world of violence and...

First Look: Shooting wraps in Goa on hedonistic backpacker thriller, starring Mortal Instruments star Robert Sheehan.

London-based production company Sums Film & Media has released the first image to emerge from the set of its new production Jet Trash, which has just completed filming in Goa, India.

The feature is directed by former Screen Star of Tomorrow Charles Henri Belleville whose previous feature The Inheritance won the inaugural Raindance Award at the BIFAs and whose latest production Mortlake starring Tom Hardy is in post-production.

Jet Trash stars Robert Sheehan, best known for his role in urban superhero series Misfits and the recent Mortal Instruments.

He stars alongside Osy Ikhile, who will be seen in Ron Howard’s upcoming Heart of the Sea, Sofia Boutella (Monsters 2: Dark Continent), Jasper Pääkkönen (Heart of a Lion) and Craig Parkinson (Control, Four Lions).

The film is written by Simon Lewis (The Anomaly, Tiger House) and Dan M Brown and is based...

London’s Birds Eye View Film Festival will include 10 UK premieres and titles from Girls star Lena Dunham and Kelly Reichardt.

The Birds Eye View Film Festival (April 8-13), celebrating women’s work in film, has revealed details of its 2014 programme including works by British director Destiny Ekaragha and Laura Checkoway to films by Lena Dunham and Kelly Reichardt.

The festival will also celebrate inspiring female filmmakers and actors of recent times including the late pioneering animator Joy Batchelor, Broadway legend Elaine Stritch and award-winning British filmmaker Gurinder Chadha.

The festival will comprise 19 features including 10 UK premieres such as German director Katrin Gebbe’s debut Nothing Bad Can Happen and the London premiere of Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky’s Watermark, the follow-up to their 2006 documentary hit Manufactured Landscapes.

The programme also includes an American Indie strand featuring Kelly Reichardt’s thriller Night Moves starring Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning; Chiemi Karasawa’s documentary Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me; and the...

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to have that nice Dougray Scott round, you'd think. You could chat about how things went so wrong for him at the end of Mission: Impossible II and where he keeps his Enigma machine. He’d probably bring a cake. Only, well, not so much in his new home invasione film Tiger House.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scott is jetting out to Cape Town to join a Brit thriller that sees Kaya Scodelario’s injured gymnast face off against a bunch of home invaders. The former Skins actress will attempt to save her boyfriend from the armed gang who have taken him and his family captive. There's no role announced for the once-nearly-Wolverine, but he'll play someone "badass" according to word from the film's camp.Ill Manors’ Ed Skrein is also aboard the film, which has a first-look still of...

Well, this update couldn’t have arrived much more quickly if Frank Martin had been delivering it himself… Hot on the (w)heels of yesterday’s confirmation that the Transporter franchise will indeed be going to reboot route for its new entries, Variety reports that Ill Manors’ Ed Skrein is the man to follow The Stath as the tough-nut central character.Skrein, who also appeared in Game Of Thrones as Daario Naharis (though he’s been replaced for Season 4 by Michael Huisman) will play a younger version of Frank Martin. The new movie will serve as an origin story for the man, which includes his interactions with his father. The producers, which include Luc Besson, are apparently looking for someone notable to take that role.“We searched everywhere to find a fresh face who had the potential to become an action movie star and we’ve found the right match with Ed Skrein,...

Former "Game of Thrones" star Ed Skrein will take over the role of Frank Martin in the $30 million reboot of the "Transporter" franchise at EuropaCorp.

Jason Statham played the role in the previous three films, while Chris Vance took on the role in the TV series version. This proposed new trilogy of films features a younger Frank Martin which 30-year-old Skrein will now take on.

Though he's had roles in films like "Ill Manors," "The Sweeney" and "Piggy," Skrein is probably best known for his work in the role of Tyroshi warrior and Daenerys love interest Daario Naharis in the most recent season of "Game of Thrones".

Skrein played the role in the final three episodes of the third season, but isn't returning to the role for the upcoming fourth season. Michiel Huisman is now taking over that part.

The story returns the action to the French Riviera and is...

Shooting has begun on London crime drama, with a cast including Leo Gregory, Ricci Harnet and Vincent Regan.

Principal photography has commenced on Top Dog, produced by Richwater Films, on location across London.

Directed by Martin Kemp (The Krays), it is produced by Jonathan Sothcott (Vendetta, Assassin) andwritten by Dougie Brimson, based on his original novel.

The cast includes Leo Gregory (Green Street, Cass), Ricci Harnett (28 Days Later, Rise Of The Foot Soldier), Vincent Regan (Bonded By Blood, Clash Of The Titans), Danielle Brent (Ill Manors), Lorraine Stanley (London To Brighton) and George Russo.

The film centres on hooligan gang leader Billy Evans (Gregory) who gets in over his head when he joins a dangerous criminal gang.

Universal Pictures UK, part of Universal Pictures International Entertainment - the home entertainment division of NBC Universal – has picked up the rights.

To celebrate the release of The Rise on Blu-ray and DVD on September 30, we have 5 copies of the Blu-ray to give away.

Shot on location in Leeds & Yorkshire The Rise is British film at its best, a heist film, an underdog story and a thriller delivered with unexpected originality from the producers of Cherry Tree Lane and Ill Manors. This bold take on a much-loved genre showcases some of Britain’s best new talent (Luke Treadaway, Iwan Rheon) as well as acting gentry Timothy Spall.

Battered, bruised and under arrest, Harvey Miller (Treadaway) sits in a police interview room facing interrogation. Clutching a stack of eyewitness statements, Detective Inspector West (Spall) has no doubt as to Harvey’s part in a foiled robbery, and the subsequent attempted murder of local businessman Steven Roper (Maskell).

Denying nothing, Harvey agrees to tell his version of events in full. We take in his...

Four Lions actor Riz Ahmed will star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in new movie Nightcrawler.

Screenwriter Dan Gilroy will make his directorial debut on the dark thriller based on his own script, The Wrap reports.

Gyllenhaal will star as a young man who is drawn into the world of Los Angeles freelance crime reporting.

Rene Russo and Bill Paxton will also feature in the movie.

Gilroy will produce Nightcrawler with his brother Tony Gilroy. The pair collaborated on the screenplay for The Bourne Legacy.

Ahmed also appeared in Plan B's movie Ill Manors as Aaron.

Lucia, Director Pawan Kumar’s Kannada-language film Lucia has won the coveted Audience Award at the 4th London Indian Film Festival (Liff, July 18-25). The inventive crowd-funded film, powered by UK-based online outfit Distrify, delighted sold out audiences across the city.

Pawan Kumar said: “To win this award in the face of such powerful competition is a dream come true for me. I thank the London Indian Film Festival for selecting the film for its world premiere and would also like to thank the London audience and the UK Kannada community for supporting the film.”

Anurag Goswami won the Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award, held in conjunction with Liff, for Kaun Kamleshwar? (Who’s Kamleshwar?). The jury, comprising Atif Ghani (producer – Ill Manors), Kim Longinotto (director – Salma), Sunny Grewal (BBC London), Meghna Gupta (shorts director, Unravel) and Satwant Gill (Liff), said: “The Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film...

A still from Lucia

Kannada-language film Lucia directed by Pawan Kumar has won the Audience Award at the 4th London Indian Film Festival that concluded recently.

The crowd-funded film revolves around an usher at a decrepit cinema who suffers from insomnia. His life changes when he starts getting weird and wonderful dreams but with a caveat. Set in the teeming young metropolis that is Bangalore, the film is a turbulent ride where the lines between dreams and reality are blurred to delirious effect. Lucia features Sathish, Shruthi Hariharan, Hardhika Shetty and Achyuth Kumar.

The Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award, held in conjunction with Liff, went to Anurag Goswami for Kaun Kamleshwar?

The jury, comprising Atif Ghani (producer – Ill Manors), Kim Longinotto (director -Salma), Sunny Grewal (BBC London), Meghna Gupta (shorts director, Unravel) and Satwant Gill (Liff), said: “The Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award goes to...

Pawan Kumar’s Lucia has won the audience award at the 4th London Indian Film Festival.

The crowd-funded film, backed by UK-based online outfit Distrify and Kannada cinema’s first crowd-funded film, played to sold out audiences across the city.

Director Kumar said: “To win this award in the face of such powerful competition is a dream come true for me. I thank the London Indian Film Festival for selecting the film for its world premiere and would also like to thank the London audience and the UK Kannada community for supporting the film.”

Anurag Goswami won the Satyajit Ray Foundation’s short film award, held in conjunction with Liff, for Kaun Kamleshwar? (Who’s Kamleshwar?).

The jury, comprising Ill Manors producer Atif Ghani, documentary director Kim Longinotto, BBC London’s Sunny Grewal, shorts director Meghna Gupta and Liff’s Satwant Gill, said: the short film was “confident and ambitious in its storytelling, gave us engaging...

Going on in the UK now and running through the 25th of July is the fabulous London Indian Film Festival. This festival showcases a world of Indian independent films that according to actress and brand ambassador Feryna Wazheir, ‘breaks new ground with its programme, giving young talent a real platform to showcase their work and for audiences to see another side of Indian cinema.‘ You have seen the British-Asian actress, who just signed a cool two-film deal with iRock in India, in the fabulous Sadiyaan – the Bollywood film on the India-Pakistan partition, that also starred Rishi Kapoor, Hema Malini and Rekha. In her second year, Feryna Wazheir says she is ‘delighted and honoured’ to be brand ambassador for Liff. See what else the lovely actress told us in this exclusive interview including her top 5 films she is most excited to see at Liff and more!

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At public school he threw a chair through a window. At Oxford he took on the black-tie brigade. Now Riz Ahmed is ready to shake up the film industry. But first he puts us right on a few things

Riz Ahmed is talking so fast, I can't keep up. He has opinions on everything, and he hurls them at you so enthusiastically, so ferociously, that before long you feel battered. Within seconds, he has taken me on a global tour of his favourite cities. New York? "It's become so gentrified that it's lacking in soul." London? "The most gloriously eclectic city in the world." Tokyo? "Everyone's beautiful, everything's futuristic, but it's ethnically homogeneous."

Then he's on to his theory about why London has such a thriving indie arts scene (because the mainstream is so establishment), why Mo Farah represents all that's great about Britain, the impact of cuts in arts funding for disadvantaged inner-city kids…...

Bond movie wins film prize and BBC2's Twenty Twelve scoops comedy, while London 2012 cauldron takes visual arts gong

James Bond movie Skyfall, London Games comedy Twenty Twelve and the Olympic cauldron were among the winners at the 2013 South Bank Sky Arts awards.

The 23rd James Bond outing won the film prize at the awards ceremony, hosted by Lord Bragg in London at Tuesday lunchtime.

Continuing the Olympic theme, the visual arts award went to Thomas Heatherwick's London 2012 cauldron, while Twenty Twelve helped the BBC to a clean sweep in the TV categories, picking up the comedy prize.

Tom Stoppard's BBC2 adaptation of Ford Maddox Ford's Parade's End won the drama award, in an all-bbc shortlist also featuring Shakespeare adaptations The Hollow Crown and police thriller Line of Duty.

Tom Hiddleston picked up the Times breakthrough award for his acting in The Hollow Crown and films including War Horse and Avengers Assemble.

The 2013 Brit Awards, hosted yesterday (February 20) at London's O2 Arena, proved once again that England makes (and appreciates) better music than we do, with top awards going to Adele, Frank Ocean, newcomer Emeli Sandé, Mumford & Sons and The Black Keys along with performances by Justin Timberlake (see below), Taylor Swift, Ms. Sandé, Mumford, Muse, One Direction, Robbie Williams and Mr. Howard. (Let's just politely ignore the fact that Lana Del Rey won anything over Cat Power, agreed?)

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If you missed it you missed it, but check out the complete list of winners below and tell me what you think in the comments after the hop.

 

MasterCard British Album of the Year:

Alt-j, An Awesome Wave

Emeli Sandé, Our Version Of Events (winner)

Mumford & Sons, Babel

Paloma Faith, Fall To Grace

Plan B, Ill Manors

British Female Solo Artist:

Amy Winehouse

Bat For Lashes...

With the biggest night in UK music coming to an end, the 2013 Brit Awards named the year's winners during an exciting ceremony at London's O2 Arena on Wednesday evening (February 20).

Taking home the top prize of Best British Album was Emeli Sande, while other big victors included Adele winning Best British Single and Mumford & Sons scoring a prize for Best British Group.

Aside from the awards, viewers saw a handful of all-star performances from big names including Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake and One Direction.

On top of all the thrilling action, Tom Odell took home the Brit's Critics Choice Award honoring his countless achievements.

Check out the full list of winners from the 2013 Brit Awards below!

British Breakthrough Act

Alt-j (Infectious Music)

Ben Howard (Island / Universal Music) Winner

Jake Bugg (Mercury / Universal Music)

Jessie Ware (Island / Pmr / Universal Music)

Rita Ora (Columbia / Roc Nation / Sony Music)

British Female Solo Artist...

Emeli Sande has taken the first gong of the night at the Brits 2013 ceremony taking place in London.

She was presented with the award by a glamorous-looking Taylor Swift, who drew cheers and applause, not least from her ex-boyfriend Harry Styles, as she took to the stage.

Emeli Sande has been nominated for three awards on what promises to be a big night for the singer, who's had a cracking year, including performing at the Olympics And getting married.

Here are all the Brits 2013 Winners as they're announced In Bold

British Breakthrough Act Nominees:

Top 5 selected by Voting Academy. Winner identified by public vote promoted by brits.co.uk and BBC Radio 1

• Alt-j (Infectious Music)

• Ben Howard (Island / Universal Music)

• Jake Bugg (Mercury / Universal Music)

• Jessie Ware (Island / Pmr / Universal Music)

• Rita Ora (Columbia / Roc Nation / Sony Music)

British Female Solo Artist Nominees:

• Amy Winehouse (Island / Universal Music)

• Bat for...

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Here are the nominees:

British Female Solo Artist

Amy Winehouse

Bat For Lashes

Emeli Sande

Jessie Ware

Paloma Faith

Best Male Solo Artist

Ben Howard

Calvin Harris

Olly Murs

Plan B

Richard Hawley...

London — One Direction, Justin Timberlake and Mumford & Sons are getting ready to perform Wednesday at Britain's leading music awards, where nominees include the late soul diva Amy Winehouse.

Mumford & Sons, Emeli Sande and Alt-j lead the nominations for the Brit Awards, with three each.

Winehouse – who died in July 2011 from accidental alcohol poisoning – is up for best British female artist. She is eligible thanks to her posthumous "Lioness: Hidden Treasures" album.

Other nominees include the Rolling Stones, up for best live act against Coldplay, Mumford & Sons, Muse and The Vaccines.

Among the international nominees are Alicia Keys, Rihanna, the Black Keys, Bruce Springsteen and indie-pop band, fun.

Contenders for the biggest award of the night, best album, include Sande's "Our Version Of Events," Alt-j's "An Awesome Wave," Mumford & Sons' "Babel," Plan B's "Ill Manors" and Paloma Faith's "Fall To Grace."

Long derided as dull, the Brits have become...

Skyfall, Alan Partridge comedy Welcome to the Places of My Life, and the Olympic Velodrome are among the nominees for this year's South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

The awards, which are now in their 16th year, celebrate the best of British culture of the last 12 months and take place at the Dorchester Hotel on Tuesday, March 12. They will air on Sky Arts later in the week.

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[Left: Skyfall / Right: Alan Partridge]

Other nominees this year include music stars Jessie Ware and Plan B, writers Hilary Mantel and Will Self, and TV comedies Twenty Twelve and Hunderby.

Melvyn Bragg is editor and master of ceremonies at the event, which hands out accolades to visual art, theatre, opera, dance, comedy, classical music, pop, TV drama, literature and film.

"2012 was a remarkably fine year for British achievement, not least in British art, by British artists," said Bragg.

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[Left: Jessie Ware / Right: Twenty Twelve]

"Arriving at this shortlist was a tough job for our judges.

Skyfall, Alan Partridge comedy Welcome to the Places of My Life, and the Olympic Velodrome are among the nominees for this year's South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

The awards, which are now in their 16th year, celebrate the best of British culture of the last 12 months and take place at the Dorchester Hotel on Tuesday, March 12. They will air on Sky Arts later in the week.

[Left: Skyfall / Right: Alan Partridge]

Other nominees this year include music stars Jessie Ware and Plan B, writers Hilary Mantel and Will Self, and TV comedies Twenty Twelve and Hunderby.

Melvyn Bragg is editor and master of ceremonies at the event, which hands out accolades to visual art, theatre, opera, dance, comedy, classical music, pop, TV drama, literature and film.

"2012 was a remarkably fine year for British achievement, not least in British art, by British artists," said Bragg.

[Left: Jessie Ware / Right: Twenty Twelve]

"Arriving at this shortlist was a tough job for our judges.

Sure, the Academy Awards is just a few sleeps away but many award-giving bodies are still handing out trophies. Most recently, the London Critics' Circle gave out their kudos with "Amour," "Rust and Bone," and "The Imposter" taking home the major awards.

In the acting categories, Joaquin Phoenix beat out rival Daniel Day-Lewis ("Lincoln") for his brave performance in "The Master." Philip Seymour Hoffman was also honored from the movie with a Best Supporting Actor win, while Emmanuelle Riva took home the Best Actress award for her memorable performance in "Amour."

The only one constant winner during our trek to the Oscars is Anne Hathaway, also taking home the Best Supporting Actress trophy for "Les Miserables."

Here's the full list of nominees. For winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies, click here:

Film Of The Year

*** Amour (Artificial Eye)

Argo (Warners)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (StudioCanal)

Life of Pi (Fox...

Visions of the American apocalypse, camp tough guys, and teen stars ruining their clean-cut reputations … it's been quite a year on the big screen

Wrecked America

Sure, the Mayans were wrong, but turns out we're off to hell in a handcart anyway. From Beasts of the Southern Wild to Bombay Beach, Killing Them Softly to The Queen of Versailles, Hollywood took us on a guided tour of a land blighted by ecological and economic collapse. Be sure to stop in at the gift shop on your way out.

Dogs in peril

Last year was vintage for big-screen mutts, with pooches stealing the show on The Artist, and making the posters for Hugo and Young Adult. Call it karma, then, that 2012 has metaphorically drowned Uggie's puppies. Bonnie the shih tzu was snatched in Seven Psychopaths, Poppy the terrier abducted in Sightseers. But they get off lightly compared with Fanny the springer spaniel in The Hunt.