Congratulations to our 2023 shortlist! Following a record number of submissions for this year's Big Screen Awards we are delighted to announce the 2023 shortlist! The exceptionally high calibre of entries showcases the very best of the UK cinema industry across marketing, distribution, publicity and exhibition teams/companies.  See the list of shortlisted entries by clicking the button below.  THE NOMINEES   Join us at the awards ceremony on 23 Novemb...

      R.J. Daniel Hanna’s cycling drama Hard Miles to be the Opening Night film selection and NIFF closes with Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial accompanied live by the Naples Philharmonic   Haroula Rose’s All Happy Families, Shaun Dozier’s  The Problem of the Hero and Vivian Kerr’s Scrap compete for the Narrative Feature Juried Prize   Miranda Yousef’s ...

  from the left: Claudio Staderini,Cynthia Littleton, Ramin Setoodeh, Damien Chazelle, Roberto Barbera and Eric Legendre The magazine Variety (www.variety,com) was omnipresent at the 80th Venice Film Festival edition 29.08-09.10 hosting or co-hosting four events. I attended three of them, invited by Eric Legendre, Managing Director, International, Variety and his wife, the sophisticated fashion designer Muzy Burton (www.muzyB.com). The most anticipated event is always the pre-opening p...

  WELCOME JAMES WOOLLEY, NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL!   As the Miami Film Festival (MFF) celebrated its 40th anniversary earlier this year and prepares for the upcoming 10th anniversary of its GEMS festival, taking place Nov. 2-5, 2023, we are excited to welcome the Festival's new Executive Director, James Woolley. “I am excited about this opportunity to lead the acclaimed Miami Film Festival, an institution I highly admire,” Woo...

    With the beginning of October, the call for films for the 64th Krakow Film Festival has started. The organisers and selectors are eagerly awaiting short films and documentaries from all over the world. From among several thousand entries, approximately 200 of the most interesting titles are going to make it to be shown in Kraków's cinemas to festival audience in late May and early June – and online throughout Poland. To us, beginning the process of accep...

45th EDITION OF THE FESTIVAL DES 3 CONTINENTS – KEY EVENTS   The Festival des 3 Continents is back in 2023 for its 45th edition from November 24 to December 3, with screenings in Nantes and in cinemas across the Loire-Atlantique region.   This international event will take place over 10 days, bookended by two weekends.   A wide range of dramas and documentaries from Africa, Latin America, and Asia will be presented in a programme of some 90 feature films, m...

    GEMS will feature 26 films from 14 countries, opening with the Mexican drama “Radical.” Four Centerpiece Screenings – the survivalist thriller “Society of the Snow,” the animated feature “The Boy and the Heron,” provocative comedy “American Fiction” and psychological thriller drama “Saltburn”– leading to the closing night feature, “The Holdovers,” a comedy-drama by Alexander Payne starri...

Emmy Award-winning Amplify Pictures has announced a production and financing partnership with multiple Tony Award-winning Broadway producing team, Eric Kuhn and Tre’ Scott’s recently formed Folk Productions. The announcement came today from Amplify’s Joe Lewis, CEO of the independent content studio behind HBO’s Emmy-winning series “100 Foot Wave.” The new collaboration brings together both organizations’ extensive experience in producing and financing ...

with Damien Chazelle at the Variety party The magazine Variety (www.variety,com) was omnipresent at the 80th Venice Film Festival edition 29.08-09.10 hosting or co-hosting four events. I attended three of them, invited by Eric Legendre, Managing Director, International, Variety and his wife, the sophisticated fashion designer Muzy Burton (www.muzyB.com).     from the left: Claudio Staderini,Cynthia Littleton, Ramin Setoodeh, Damien Chazelle, Roberto Barbera and Eric Legendre T...

Enzo Ashford Zelocchi was born in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Raised predominantly between the United States and Italy with family also located in England and France, he is of Italian, British, Spanish, French, Asian, and Jewish descent. Enzo pursued higher education in Italy, graduating with a degree in accounting from a private international school in Rome before relocating to Milan to study marketing, media strategy, and public relations at the private university IULM, alongside the Stan...