Over 150 women came together in Cannes to celebrate Black women in international film, including producer and former Netflix exec Fiona Lamptey, Rocks producer Ameenah Ayub Allen and founders of distribution and exhibition specialist We Are Parable, Anthony and Teanne Andrews.
“’Do better’ was our message to Cannes Film Festival leadership in May 2022,” said Yolonda Brinkley, founder of grassroots equality movement, Diversity in Cannes, who also launched a new initiative at this year’s festival, Black Women Cannes, to celebrate, support and uplift Black women at the festival, and to start a film fund. ”In [the festival’s] 75-year history, they’d only selected one Black women in competition.
“’Do better’ was our message to Cannes Film Festival leadership in May 2022,” said Yolonda Brinkley, founder of grassroots equality movement, Diversity in Cannes, who also launched a new initiative at this year’s festival, Black Women Cannes, to celebrate, support and uplift Black women at the festival, and to start a film fund. ”In [the festival’s] 75-year history, they’d only selected one Black women in competition.
- 5/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
Project and talent development programmes delivered by partners including UK-France sales outfit Film Constellation, Sheffield DocFest and Glasgow Film Festival are among the first recipients of the BFI’s National Lottery Creative Challenge fund.
The fund will invest up to £2.7m in total over three years from 2023-2026, focusing on five different ‘challenges’ . The aim is to decentralise project development and support with an expectation to support around 24 development programmes or labs, each supporting many more projects and filmmakers.
All of the programmes are expected to launch over the next couple of months and to have completed delivery by end...
The fund will invest up to £2.7m in total over three years from 2023-2026, focusing on five different ‘challenges’ . The aim is to decentralise project development and support with an expectation to support around 24 development programmes or labs, each supporting many more projects and filmmakers.
All of the programmes are expected to launch over the next couple of months and to have completed delivery by end...
- 5/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Marcus Ryder, CEO of the UK’s Film and TV Charity, has unveiled details today (March 28) of a fund to support Black and Global Majority creatives, at the final day of The New Black Film Collective Xpo in London.
The Reel Impact Fund, steered by Anita Herbert, will offer grants of up to £10,000 for individuals and £25,000 for companies, with applications opening from May 13-June 30, and an independent panel assessing the applications.
Reel Impact aims to support mid to senior level Black and Global Majority individuals, as well as Black and Global Majority-led production companies and organisations working behind the scenes in film,...
The Reel Impact Fund, steered by Anita Herbert, will offer grants of up to £10,000 for individuals and £25,000 for companies, with applications opening from May 13-June 30, and an independent panel assessing the applications.
Reel Impact aims to support mid to senior level Black and Global Majority individuals, as well as Black and Global Majority-led production companies and organisations working behind the scenes in film,...
- 3/28/2024
- ScreenDaily
UK gender equity in film charity Reclaim The Frame, previously known as Birds’ Eye View, has hired Aashna Thakkar in the newly-created role of head of audience engagement.
Since moving to London, Toronto-native Thakkar has worked with Into Film on its UK-wide festival. She has previously held programming and education posts at Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto’s longest-running free community film festival; Breakthroughs, the Toronto women and non-binary led film festival; and Hot Docs.
Thakkar, a member of the global Programmers Of Colour Collective, has focused her seven-year career on promoting equity in the film industry and platforming stories of marginalised identities.
Since moving to London, Toronto-native Thakkar has worked with Into Film on its UK-wide festival. She has previously held programming and education posts at Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto’s longest-running free community film festival; Breakthroughs, the Toronto women and non-binary led film festival; and Hot Docs.
Thakkar, a member of the global Programmers Of Colour Collective, has focused her seven-year career on promoting equity in the film industry and platforming stories of marginalised identities.
- 3/27/2024
- ScreenDaily
Four Black and Global Majority producers from the UK are participating in the European Film Market’s Equity & Inclusion Pathway as well as the market’s general activities in an initaitive supported by the British Film Insitute (BFI).
Carol Harding, Luke Oliveira-Davies, Lorine Plagnol and Tolu Stedford are all looking for partners for their projects.
Harding is a Bafta TV-nominated producer of Vicarious Productions seeking financing for her second feature project Final Breath which is in advanced development with Gfm Films. She produced her first feature, 2018’s Piotr Szkopiak’s The Last Witness starring Alex Pettyfer, Talulah Riley and Michael Gambon,...
Carol Harding, Luke Oliveira-Davies, Lorine Plagnol and Tolu Stedford are all looking for partners for their projects.
Harding is a Bafta TV-nominated producer of Vicarious Productions seeking financing for her second feature project Final Breath which is in advanced development with Gfm Films. She produced her first feature, 2018’s Piotr Szkopiak’s The Last Witness starring Alex Pettyfer, Talulah Riley and Michael Gambon,...
- 2/14/2024
- ScreenDaily
A new ScreenSkills exhibition and distribution group has also formed, featuring UK Cinema Association’s Phil Clapp and Film Export UK’s Charlie Bloye.
UK training body ScreenSkills has unveiled the 11 new members of its Film Skills Council, including Neon Films’ Nicky Bentham and Working Title Films’ head of production Sarah-Jane Wright.
They are joined by producers Ameenah Ayub Allen; Ciara Barry and Rosie Crerar of barry crerar; Jennifer Monks of The Fold; Chris Patterson of Causeway Pictures; Story Compound’s Tolu Stedford; and Delta Pictures’ Adam Partridge.
Also new to the council is BBC Film’s head of production...
UK training body ScreenSkills has unveiled the 11 new members of its Film Skills Council, including Neon Films’ Nicky Bentham and Working Title Films’ head of production Sarah-Jane Wright.
They are joined by producers Ameenah Ayub Allen; Ciara Barry and Rosie Crerar of barry crerar; Jennifer Monks of The Fold; Chris Patterson of Causeway Pictures; Story Compound’s Tolu Stedford; and Delta Pictures’ Adam Partridge.
Also new to the council is BBC Film’s head of production...
- 9/13/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Includes producer and former Screen Star Of Tomorrow Helen Gladders
UK’s Film London has unveiled the 12 participants of its third Breaking The Glass Ceiling programme, an initiative aimed at mid-level industry professionals from ethnically diverse backgrounds.
Among the selection is Camilla Wren who previously worked on the Fantastic Beasts films and upcoming Netflix series One Day in script and production. Wren set up her own production company Frolic Films in 2018 which has projects in development with BBC, Netflix, BFI and Film4.
Also selected is Screen Star Of Tomorrow 2022 Helen Gladders, producer on Daina Oniunas-Pusic’s upcoming feature Tuesday starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Jaya Campbell,...
UK’s Film London has unveiled the 12 participants of its third Breaking The Glass Ceiling programme, an initiative aimed at mid-level industry professionals from ethnically diverse backgrounds.
Among the selection is Camilla Wren who previously worked on the Fantastic Beasts films and upcoming Netflix series One Day in script and production. Wren set up her own production company Frolic Films in 2018 which has projects in development with BBC, Netflix, BFI and Film4.
Also selected is Screen Star Of Tomorrow 2022 Helen Gladders, producer on Daina Oniunas-Pusic’s upcoming feature Tuesday starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Jaya Campbell,...
- 7/12/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The event was held at Home House, London on July 5
Screen celebrated the launch of the UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow 2023 with a party at Home House, London on Wednesday, July 5.
Most of this year’s Stars were in attendance, including Kit Connor, Ruby Stokes, Leo Woodall, Ronke Adekoluejo, Rory Fleck Byrne and Mia McKenna-Bruce.
Other guests included producers Emily Morgan, Duncan Kenworthy and Tolu Stedford; British Council’s Catherine Bray and Briony Hanson; BBC Films’ Eva Yates; Amazon Prime Video’s Dan Grabiner, and ScreenSkill’s Emma Turner.
Prime Video returned as the headline sponsor for the fourth consecutive year,...
Screen celebrated the launch of the UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow 2023 with a party at Home House, London on Wednesday, July 5.
Most of this year’s Stars were in attendance, including Kit Connor, Ruby Stokes, Leo Woodall, Ronke Adekoluejo, Rory Fleck Byrne and Mia McKenna-Bruce.
Other guests included producers Emily Morgan, Duncan Kenworthy and Tolu Stedford; British Council’s Catherine Bray and Briony Hanson; BBC Films’ Eva Yates; Amazon Prime Video’s Dan Grabiner, and ScreenSkill’s Emma Turner.
Prime Video returned as the headline sponsor for the fourth consecutive year,...
- 7/7/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
“We’re the ones making work for actors and everybody,’” said Anna Griffin at a BFI / Screen panel in Cannes.
UK producers need more financial assistance to be able to support up-and-coming local talent efficiently, according to a lively debate in the UK Pavilion at Cannes.
“We need to talk about how to support producers because the producers are the ones galvanising and making work for the actors and for everybody else,” said Anna Griffin, of Griffin Pictures, who produced 2016’s Paa Joe & The Lion and 2018’s Calibre and is a former Screen Star of Tomorrow.
“There’s such an elite system…...
UK producers need more financial assistance to be able to support up-and-coming local talent efficiently, according to a lively debate in the UK Pavilion at Cannes.
“We need to talk about how to support producers because the producers are the ones galvanising and making work for the actors and for everybody else,” said Anna Griffin, of Griffin Pictures, who produced 2016’s Paa Joe & The Lion and 2018’s Calibre and is a former Screen Star of Tomorrow.
“There’s such an elite system…...
- 5/21/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
They will take part in a panel discussion chaired by Screen International’s Fionnuala Halligan.
How to attract UK talent and filmmakers to a project with international potential; what kinds of scripts and packages an agent will put in front of their client; and how working with UK talent enhances a project, will all be discussed at a panel in the UK Pavilion in Cannes today.
The panel marks 20 years of Screen’s pioneering new talent spotlight UK Stars of Tomorrow with a panel discussion at the moderated by Fionnuala Halligan, Screen’s executive editor for reviews and new talent.
How to attract UK talent and filmmakers to a project with international potential; what kinds of scripts and packages an agent will put in front of their client; and how working with UK talent enhances a project, will all be discussed at a panel in the UK Pavilion in Cannes today.
The panel marks 20 years of Screen’s pioneering new talent spotlight UK Stars of Tomorrow with a panel discussion at the moderated by Fionnuala Halligan, Screen’s executive editor for reviews and new talent.
- 5/20/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
They will take part in a panel discussion chaired by Screen International’s Fionnuala Halligan.
Screen will be marking 20 years of its pioneering new talent spotlight UK Stars of Tomorrow with a panel discussion at the UK Pavilion in Cannes today, moderated by Fionnuala Halligan, Screen’s executive editor for reviews and new talent.
Up for discussion will be how to attract UK talent and filmmakers to a project with international potential; what kinds of scripts and packages an agent will put in front of their client; and how working with UK talent enhances a project.
The panel involves Roger Charteris,...
Screen will be marking 20 years of its pioneering new talent spotlight UK Stars of Tomorrow with a panel discussion at the UK Pavilion in Cannes today, moderated by Fionnuala Halligan, Screen’s executive editor for reviews and new talent.
Up for discussion will be how to attract UK talent and filmmakers to a project with international potential; what kinds of scripts and packages an agent will put in front of their client; and how working with UK talent enhances a project.
The panel involves Roger Charteris,...
- 5/20/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Revised BFI Filmmaking Fund and UK tax credits system up for discussion in UK Pavilion events programme.
The British Film Institute (BFI) has named its roster of speakers taking part in this year’s series of events hosted at the UK Pavilion in Cannes, including talent talks from official selection filmmakers such as How To Have Sex director Molly Manning Walker, The Old Oak producer Rebecca O’Brien and The Settlers producer Emily Morgan, plus industry figures such as the BFI’s Mia Bays and We Are Parable’s Anthony Andrews.
Conversations will explore developing talent, co-production, film financing, the UK...
The British Film Institute (BFI) has named its roster of speakers taking part in this year’s series of events hosted at the UK Pavilion in Cannes, including talent talks from official selection filmmakers such as How To Have Sex director Molly Manning Walker, The Old Oak producer Rebecca O’Brien and The Settlers producer Emily Morgan, plus industry figures such as the BFI’s Mia Bays and We Are Parable’s Anthony Andrews.
Conversations will explore developing talent, co-production, film financing, the UK...
- 5/12/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Revised BFI Filmmaking Fund and UK tax credits system up for discussion in UK Pavilion events programme.
The British Film Institute (BFI) has named its roster of speakers taking part in this year’s series of events hosted at the UK Pavilion in Cannes, including talent talks from official selection filmmakers such as How To Have Sex director Molly Manning Walker, The Old Oak producer Rebecca O’Brien and The Settlers producer Emily Morgan, plus industry figures such as the BFI’s Mia Bays and We Are Parable’s Anthony Andrews.
Conversations will explore developing talent, co-production, film financing, the UK...
The British Film Institute (BFI) has named its roster of speakers taking part in this year’s series of events hosted at the UK Pavilion in Cannes, including talent talks from official selection filmmakers such as How To Have Sex director Molly Manning Walker, The Old Oak producer Rebecca O’Brien and The Settlers producer Emily Morgan, plus industry figures such as the BFI’s Mia Bays and We Are Parable’s Anthony Andrews.
Conversations will explore developing talent, co-production, film financing, the UK...
- 5/12/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Bays was speaking alongside BFI exec Ama Ampadu, following allegations that the organisation has failed to address systemic racism.
Mia Bays, director of the BFI (British Film Institute) Filmmaking Fund, used a panel at The New Black Film Collective Xpo event in London this week to underline the BFI’s commitment to diversity, following allegations from filmmakers of colour that the organisation has failed to address systemic racism.
“The team I’m part of and the executive I’m part of are committed to being an anti-racist organisation. There’s been a lot of change that hasn’t been reported,...
Mia Bays, director of the BFI (British Film Institute) Filmmaking Fund, used a panel at The New Black Film Collective Xpo event in London this week to underline the BFI’s commitment to diversity, following allegations from filmmakers of colour that the organisation has failed to address systemic racism.
“The team I’m part of and the executive I’m part of are committed to being an anti-racist organisation. There’s been a lot of change that hasn’t been reported,...
- 3/31/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Screen Star of Tomorrow 2021 Sorcha Bacon and ’Martyrs Lane’ director Ruth Platt are taking part.
The UK’s Birds’ Eye View – an organisation that campaigns for gender equality in all film spaces – has named the participants taking part in the seventh edition of the Filmonomics professional development programme.
Filmonomics is aimed at up-and-coming feature writers, directors and producers of marginalised genders from across the UK. The five-day programme takes place this month and is led by Birds’ Eye View director Melanie Iredale, training manager Simone Glover and Tolu Stedford, who is part of the Birds’ Eye View advisory committee.
The...
The UK’s Birds’ Eye View – an organisation that campaigns for gender equality in all film spaces – has named the participants taking part in the seventh edition of the Filmonomics professional development programme.
Filmonomics is aimed at up-and-coming feature writers, directors and producers of marginalised genders from across the UK. The five-day programme takes place this month and is led by Birds’ Eye View director Melanie Iredale, training manager Simone Glover and Tolu Stedford, who is part of the Birds’ Eye View advisory committee.
The...
- 1/9/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Further members of the group include BFI London Film Festival programmer Rowan Woods and Mogul Mowgli producer Bennett McGhee.
UK gender equality group Birds’ Eye View, that aims to achieve gender equity and justice in all film spaces, has created an 11-strong advisory group including Altitude’s Lia Devlin, Apple’s Julie La’Bassiere, BFI London Film Festival programmer Rowan Woods and Mogul Mowgli producer Bennett McGhee, as part of a restructure that includes changes to the board of trustees.
The advisory group has been established as an additional framework of support for the charity.
“Our newly established advisory group...
UK gender equality group Birds’ Eye View, that aims to achieve gender equity and justice in all film spaces, has created an 11-strong advisory group including Altitude’s Lia Devlin, Apple’s Julie La’Bassiere, BFI London Film Festival programmer Rowan Woods and Mogul Mowgli producer Bennett McGhee, as part of a restructure that includes changes to the board of trustees.
The advisory group has been established as an additional framework of support for the charity.
“Our newly established advisory group...
- 12/12/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The UK’s Independent Film Trust, Sony Pictures Television and Roadmap Writers have named the 14 writers of color selected to take part in their transatlantic writers’ initiative, Creative Corridor.
The U.S. writers chosen are Adrian Burks, La’Chris Robinson Jordan, Moni Oyedepo, Aden Suchak, Meemee Taylor, Derege Harding and David Carmon. Those representing the UK are Cristina Sebastian, Afshan D’Souza-Lodhi, Vincent Gwyn, Sylvia-Anne Parker, Rory Bentley, Babatunde Apalowo and Mariem Omari.
The program launched last year brings together underrepresented writers from both sides of the pond to develop projects for film and TV. It was originally devised by Charlotte Knowles, Tolu Stedford and Adquanita K. Curtis, with TV executive and consultant Stacey Carr joining the team this year. The 2022 participants will be feted tonight at an event held on Sony’s Culver City lot, spotlighting how the program is bolstering diversity, equity and inclusion within film and TV,...
The U.S. writers chosen are Adrian Burks, La’Chris Robinson Jordan, Moni Oyedepo, Aden Suchak, Meemee Taylor, Derege Harding and David Carmon. Those representing the UK are Cristina Sebastian, Afshan D’Souza-Lodhi, Vincent Gwyn, Sylvia-Anne Parker, Rory Bentley, Babatunde Apalowo and Mariem Omari.
The program launched last year brings together underrepresented writers from both sides of the pond to develop projects for film and TV. It was originally devised by Charlotte Knowles, Tolu Stedford and Adquanita K. Curtis, with TV executive and consultant Stacey Carr joining the team this year. The 2022 participants will be feted tonight at an event held on Sony’s Culver City lot, spotlighting how the program is bolstering diversity, equity and inclusion within film and TV,...
- 11/3/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Independent Film Trust (Ift) has launched its second transatlantic “Creative Corridor” co-production initiative to increase screenwriter diversity in film and television.
The Creative Corridor program will unite seven U.S. writers of color and seven U.K. writers of color to explore collaboration across both territories. As well as networking, the program will give participants the opportunity to practise pitching, attend masterclasses with industry leaders and develop their commercial expertise.
2021’s Creative Corridor program saw 90 of the projects considered for further development by major entities and 4 writers gain agency representation.
The second iteration of the program, which will run from Oct. 22-Jan 23, is backed by Sony Pictures Television (Spt). Spt’s backing has ensured the program remains free for participants as well increasing the number of places available for 10 to 14.
Roadmap Writers and FilmmarketHub are also lending their expertise to the initiative.
Creative Corridor was devised by Adquanita K. Curtis,...
The Creative Corridor program will unite seven U.S. writers of color and seven U.K. writers of color to explore collaboration across both territories. As well as networking, the program will give participants the opportunity to practise pitching, attend masterclasses with industry leaders and develop their commercial expertise.
2021’s Creative Corridor program saw 90 of the projects considered for further development by major entities and 4 writers gain agency representation.
The second iteration of the program, which will run from Oct. 22-Jan 23, is backed by Sony Pictures Television (Spt). Spt’s backing has ensured the program remains free for participants as well increasing the number of places available for 10 to 14.
Roadmap Writers and FilmmarketHub are also lending their expertise to the initiative.
Creative Corridor was devised by Adquanita K. Curtis,...
- 8/8/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The U.K.’s Independent Film Trust and U.S.-based Roadmap Writers have revealed a new transatlantic initiative to empower under-represented writers on both sides of the pond.
Called Creative Corrider, it will run from November to December and unite five writers from underrepresented groups in each country to collaborate and explore new film and television projects that could potentially be developed in either or both territories.
The initiative is sponsored by Smash and the selected writers can use the Smash pitch builder to work on their pitches in both written and verbal form.
Creative Corridor has already tapped a number of top executives and industry leaders from both the U.K. and U.S. to contribute to the initiative, including the BBC’s head of new writing, Jessica Loveland, Merman’s Clelia Mountford and Netflix’s director of U.K. feature Fiona Lamptey as well as reps from Lawrence Bender Productions,...
Called Creative Corrider, it will run from November to December and unite five writers from underrepresented groups in each country to collaborate and explore new film and television projects that could potentially be developed in either or both territories.
The initiative is sponsored by Smash and the selected writers can use the Smash pitch builder to work on their pitches in both written and verbal form.
Creative Corridor has already tapped a number of top executives and industry leaders from both the U.K. and U.S. to contribute to the initiative, including the BBC’s head of new writing, Jessica Loveland, Merman’s Clelia Mountford and Netflix’s director of U.K. feature Fiona Lamptey as well as reps from Lawrence Bender Productions,...
- 11/3/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
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