The BFI and Film4 have selected what has been described as nine “high-budget” short film projects that will receive cash funding in the first round of awards from their Future Takes short film fund.
Each selected filmmaking team is set to be awarded between £55,000-£90,000 to create their projects. The nine greenlit projects will shoot between September 2023 and spring 2024. In addition to production funding, BFI and Film4 creative and production executives will support each film through its entire lifecycle. Once completed, the films will be screened at a showcase at BFI Southbank, after which they will be available on Channel 4 streaming and BFI Player.
Launched with an open call in December 2022, the BFI and Film4 said they received over 400 applications for Future Takes. The two companies said the quality of projects was “incredibly high,” which led them to agree to fund nine projects rather than seven per their initial open call.
Each selected filmmaking team is set to be awarded between £55,000-£90,000 to create their projects. The nine greenlit projects will shoot between September 2023 and spring 2024. In addition to production funding, BFI and Film4 creative and production executives will support each film through its entire lifecycle. Once completed, the films will be screened at a showcase at BFI Southbank, after which they will be available on Channel 4 streaming and BFI Player.
Launched with an open call in December 2022, the BFI and Film4 said they received over 400 applications for Future Takes. The two companies said the quality of projects was “incredibly high,” which led them to agree to fund nine projects rather than seven per their initial open call.
- 9/28/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Recipients including Screen Star of Tomorrow 2023 Rory Fleck Byrne and ’Chuck Chucky Baby’ producers Anne Beresford and Andrew Gillman.
The British Film Institute (BFI) and Film4 have unveiled the nine short films that will receive funding through their Future Takes programme,.
It will see each filmmaking team receive between £55,000 and £90,000 of National Lottery funding, with recipients including Screen Star of Tomorrow 2023 Rory Fleck Byrne and Chuck Chucky Baby producers Anne Beresford and Andrew Gillman.
Actor-director Fleck Byrne, who stared in BBC drama series This Is Going To Hurt, has been selected for In Heat, produced Radha Bhandari, whose short For...
The British Film Institute (BFI) and Film4 have unveiled the nine short films that will receive funding through their Future Takes programme,.
It will see each filmmaking team receive between £55,000 and £90,000 of National Lottery funding, with recipients including Screen Star of Tomorrow 2023 Rory Fleck Byrne and Chuck Chucky Baby producers Anne Beresford and Andrew Gillman.
Actor-director Fleck Byrne, who stared in BBC drama series This Is Going To Hurt, has been selected for In Heat, produced Radha Bhandari, whose short For...
- 9/28/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Cold Comfort Car: Walsh Gets Wound Up in Perfunctory Trauma Reenactment
Survival thrillers which reenact harrowing experiences documented by those who lived through unthinkable trauma initially seem impervious to criticism. They are accounts, after all, ‘based on true events,’ and regardless of whether they’re sensationalized, exaggerated or outright fabricated for dramatic effect, there’s usually the remaining kernel of integrity which mainlines necessary universality.
For his directorial debut, Brendan Walsh and first-time screenwriter Daley Nixon tackle a 2002 account of an American couple traveling in Norway who pull over during a snowstorm to awaken hours later trapped in their frozen SUV, where they remain buried for a month.…...
Survival thrillers which reenact harrowing experiences documented by those who lived through unthinkable trauma initially seem impervious to criticism. They are accounts, after all, ‘based on true events,’ and regardless of whether they’re sensationalized, exaggerated or outright fabricated for dramatic effect, there’s usually the remaining kernel of integrity which mainlines necessary universality.
For his directorial debut, Brendan Walsh and first-time screenwriter Daley Nixon tackle a 2002 account of an American couple traveling in Norway who pull over during a snowstorm to awaken hours later trapped in their frozen SUV, where they remain buried for a month.…...
- 8/29/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
You’ll forgive director Brendan Walsh for wanting to have it both ways. “Centigrade,” the filmmaker’s feature debut — he wrote it alongside Daley Nixon, also a feature filmmaking newbie — opens with a pair of title cards that happily play into the tease that what follows is all real, or at least real enough to lend it all a little spice. First, we’re told, “In 2002, an American novelist and her husband traveled to Norway on a small book tour,” followed by the kicker, “What follows is inspired by actual events.” No, “Centigrade” itself is not a true story — certainly not the teased one about the American novelist and her husband — but it is inspired by real stories like it, and if Walsh is trying to have some fun blending fact and fiction, worse things have certainly happened in the genre space.
At least that first title card allows for the film’s chilling opening,...
At least that first title card allows for the film’s chilling opening,...
- 8/27/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
When thinking about the worst ways to die, a few options pop to the top of the mind, including but not limited to drowning, something elevator-related, or any of the setpieces from Final Destination. Getting trapped in your car during a blizzard? It’s another awful way to go, and it’s the premise for director Brendan Walsh’s debut feature Centigrade, a snappy horror-thriller based on true events from IFC Midnight.
Written by Walsh and Daley Nixon, the film exists inside of the tiny vehicle of a couple, Matt (Vincent Piazza) and Naomi (Genesis Rodriguez), as they wake up after pulling off the road and falling asleep in the middle of the night in a Norway mountain range. Within the car, which contains a minimal amount of food and water, the couple (including a pregnant Naomi) disagree on attempting to escape or bunkering down, and secrets and lies start...
Written by Walsh and Daley Nixon, the film exists inside of the tiny vehicle of a couple, Matt (Vincent Piazza) and Naomi (Genesis Rodriguez), as they wake up after pulling off the road and falling asleep in the middle of the night in a Norway mountain range. Within the car, which contains a minimal amount of food and water, the couple (including a pregnant Naomi) disagree on attempting to escape or bunkering down, and secrets and lies start...
- 8/27/2020
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Brendan Walsh’s contained Arctic thriller Centigrade, which is based on true events.
Genesis Rodriguez (Big Hero 6) and Vincent Piazza (Boardwalk Empire) star in the story about a 2002 incident when a young American couple traveled to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and ice. It is soon revealed that the woman is eight months pregnant. Amid escalating tension between them and dwindling supplies, the couple battles -30C temperatures, hallucinations and hypothermia in their struggle to survive.
The completed film was written by Daley Nixon and Walsh, and produced by Bradley J. Ross, Molly Conners, Amanda Bowers, Vincent Morano, and Walsh. Premiere Entertainment handles international sales and finalized the North American deal at the Efm in Berlin.
The deal for the movie was...
Genesis Rodriguez (Big Hero 6) and Vincent Piazza (Boardwalk Empire) star in the story about a 2002 incident when a young American couple traveled to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and ice. It is soon revealed that the woman is eight months pregnant. Amid escalating tension between them and dwindling supplies, the couple battles -30C temperatures, hallucinations and hypothermia in their struggle to survive.
The completed film was written by Daley Nixon and Walsh, and produced by Bradley J. Ross, Molly Conners, Amanda Bowers, Vincent Morano, and Walsh. Premiere Entertainment handles international sales and finalized the North American deal at the Efm in Berlin.
The deal for the movie was...
- 3/2/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Luke Goss stars in sci-fi kidnap thriller R.I.A.
Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has beefed up its Efm sales slate and acquired international rights to survival thriller Centigrade and worldwide rights to sci-fi thriller R.I.A. starring Luke Goss.
Genesis Rodriguez and Vincent Piazza star in Centigrade as a married couple who find themselves trapped inside a frozen vehicle after an overnight blizzard buries their car in snow, while struggling to survive amid plunging temperatures and unforeseen obstacles.
Brendan Walsh makes his feature directorial debut from a screenplay he co-wrote with Daley Nixon. Bradley J. Ross produced for Manhattan Productions...
Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has beefed up its Efm sales slate and acquired international rights to survival thriller Centigrade and worldwide rights to sci-fi thriller R.I.A. starring Luke Goss.
Genesis Rodriguez and Vincent Piazza star in Centigrade as a married couple who find themselves trapped inside a frozen vehicle after an overnight blizzard buries their car in snow, while struggling to survive amid plunging temperatures and unforeseen obstacles.
Brendan Walsh makes his feature directorial debut from a screenplay he co-wrote with Daley Nixon. Bradley J. Ross produced for Manhattan Productions...
- 2/17/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
At the beginning of this examination of Alexander Payne’s work, Daley Nixon cites an old writer’s proverb that a screenplay consists of creating a character and throwing rocks at them; in Payne’s case, Nixon says, he lobs hand grenades. Yes, Payne’s worldview can be grim, but this video argues that failure is a catalyst for ultimately positive self-examination in his films. Includes digressions on the perils of voice-over, complete with a cameo from Frank Darabont.
- 4/11/2016
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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