Animation Day in Cannes presents:
Animation Financing: What's the Catch --> Whats the Difference?
From grassroots to government institutions, the art of film financing is personal and strategic.
ADIC presents this lively panel on the various financial models from the UK, Nordic countries. This is an open discussion encouraging audience participation.
Panelists: Sally Griffith of BFI ...
LOVELESS (Best Film), THE WOUND (Best First Feature), KINGDOM OF US (Best Documentary) and THE RABBIT HUNT (Best Short Film) receive the Star of London
The 61st BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® announced this year’s Festival Award-winners at its high profile Awards dinner, at Banqueting House, Whitehall, this evening. Hosted by James Nesbitt and with an address from BFI Chair Josh Berger, guests includedAndrea Arnold, Hayley Atwel...
The 61st BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® is delighted to announce additional Screen Talks with BAFTA-winning and Academy-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal, four-time Academy Award-nominated actor Annette Bening and critically acclaimed director Lucrecia Martel alongside previously announced guest, director Takashi Miike.
The Festival’s acclaimed Screen Talks series welcomes some of the most exciting international actors and directors in contemporar...
by Martin I. Petrov
One of the highlights of the competition at the 74th Venice Film Festival is definitely British director Andrew Haigh's new film 'Lean on Pete', starring young US talent Charlie Plummer alongside Chloe Savigny. The film tells the story of a 16 year old Charlie, who grows up with a single dad and yet in a relatively healthy family environment. One day he meets a local race horse owner, who happens to need an apprentice and Charlie soon becomes fascinated w...
Over a year since it made its debut at New York's Lincoln Center last February, Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, a traveling exhibition comprising 21 feature films, has screened at over 30 venues from coast to coast across North America. The series includes works by legendary directors such as Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi and others, which have never previously been showcased on such a grand scale.
Havi...
Wild, dir. Jean-Marc Vallée, 2014, US
It is rather a common thing to push ourselves beyond the borderline in an attempt to see what it takes to confront our fears. This challenge now has potentially evolved into the journey of encountering our dreams and testing our capability to either pursue or quit them; but is it easy to define a dream as a ‘to quit’ or ‘to live’, before knowing the cost?
Wild is about dreams. Or, to be m...
The 57th BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express®, closed tonight with the World Premiere of SAVING MR. BANKS. Clare Stewart, in her second year as Festival Director has offered audiences a diverse range of international films in what has been widely regarded as one of the strongest programmes in recent years. 2013 has seen the Festival consolidate last year’s successful growth, with an audience of 151,000. The Festival screened a total of 235 fiction and docum...
The New York Film Festival opened with Tom Hanks in “Captain Phillips” and will close with Spike Jonze’s “Her,” while the 57th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 9-20th) opens with Tom Hanks in “Captain Phillips” and closes with Tom Hanks as Walt Disney in “Saving Mr. Banks.”
On a more serious note, “Drones” by director/producer Rick Rosenthal, will be screening at the festival on Oct 19 and 20th, and is a MUST SEE if ...
Call for Short Films
4th Future Film Festival
February 2011
BFI Education invites young filmmakers to submit their work to be considered for inclusion in the 4th Future Film Festival.
Selected films will be screened during the Festival and could be nominated for a Future Film Award.
Films can be any style or genre, but must:
� be made by a filmmaker aged between 15-25 years of age
� be no more than 10 minutes long
� have been produced i...
London Screenwriters Festival is a festival that runs from the 29th - 31st October it is only about screen writing and its for screen writes. I'm not really a screen writer but the line up of events looked kinder cool. Also as most film makers know some times its just easier to write your own work then it is to wait for some one else to write it.The event i enjoyed from the first day was Kate Lays "Your Script, From Good to Great" this event was all about getting you script up to the b...
LIVING ON LOVE ALONE is an interesting film; it follows Julie as she goes from a bad job in PR to a bad one in sales to a love affair. Julie is seeking employment in the hippest PR agency in Paris and when she finally gets it, we can watch disappointment creeping slowly, as she fails from task to task, the job being a complete let down for her. Next, she tries sales. A panel of judges whom she has a job interview with tell her that she must demonstrate selling potential and to go next door to ...
This year's London Film Festival jury has finally been announced along with the shortlist of the films up for Best Film Award, Best British Newcomer, Sutherland Award and the Grierson Award for Best Documentary. The Best Film Award jury will be chaired by American actress Patricia Clarkson (Green Mile, The Pledge, Shutter Island) and includes Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects, Miller's Crossing), Sandy Powell (costume designer in The Departed, The Aviator and pretty much all Scorsese/DiCaprio c...
Official London Film Festival vodcast - Day 2 - kewego Catch up with all the action from Day 2 from The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival.
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At a time when vast sums of cash are being hurled at production companies, all too often for the production of rather dull films, the low-budget Hannah Takes the Stairs is a shining gem of a film by Joe Swanberg. Lauded as an example of the new wave of American indie film-making it is refreshing for its raw visual quality and honestly portrayed subject matter. Greta Gerwig plays Hannah, an attractive post-graduate who is starting out in the big world. As the heat of summer intensifies, Hannah fa...
The big screen comes to Trafalgar Square with free archive films that celebrate London.Blackmail/Blue Bottles Thu 18 Oct 18:30, Trafalgar Square FREE Blackmail in London in this early Hitchcock thriller.Capital Tales Fri 19 Oct 18:30, Trafalgar Square FREE A whistle-stop journey across 100 years of London.....
Excitement is building in London, one of the world's great film cities, as details are being revealed for the upcoming Times BFI London Film Festival, which celebrates its milestone 50th anniversary this year.
While the Festival doesn't have its official launch until October 18th, the celebrations have already begun this summer, with an ambitious screening of films from the Festival's first 50 years.
The National Film Theater, the cinematheque treasure run by the British Film Institute, wh...
