Exclusive: Dave Evans’ feature doc My Grandfather The Spy, which chronicles the director’s exploration of his own family’s long-buried secrets, has been boarded by Smp Distribution for international sales.
The pic, financed by Film Cymru and BBC Wales, has been five years in the making. It follows how director Evans uncovers that his grandfather Eric, seemingly a quiet unassuming shopkeeper, actually had a connection to Cold War espionage. The pic is co-directed by Martin Scanlan, produced by Evans and executive produced by Andre Singer of Spring Films. Shooting took place in Bulgaria, England and Wales. Smp is now looking into festival screenings.
“When I started this journey all I wanted to do was to find out why my grandad had so completely disappeared from our lives,” said director Evans. “I never expected to uncover such a complex web of lies spun by grandad and which brought the Cold War directly to our door.
The pic, financed by Film Cymru and BBC Wales, has been five years in the making. It follows how director Evans uncovers that his grandfather Eric, seemingly a quiet unassuming shopkeeper, actually had a connection to Cold War espionage. The pic is co-directed by Martin Scanlan, produced by Evans and executive produced by Andre Singer of Spring Films. Shooting took place in Bulgaria, England and Wales. Smp is now looking into festival screenings.
“When I started this journey all I wanted to do was to find out why my grandad had so completely disappeared from our lives,” said director Evans. “I never expected to uncover such a complex web of lies spun by grandad and which brought the Cold War directly to our door.
- 7/7/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Cold War espionage doc has been backed by Ffilm Cymru Wales and BBC Wales.
UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment has taken worldwide rights to Dave Evans’s investigative documentary My Grandfather The Spy.
Co-directed by Martin Scanlan, the film follows Evans’s [pictured in the film] attempt to unearth secrets from his family’s past – to solve the mystery behind his grandfather’s frequent trips behind the Iron Curtain during the height of the Cold War.
The project was developed through the New Discoveries programme at The Balkan Documentary Center, and had support from Ffilm Cymru Wales, as well as BBC Wales. It received a special mention at Kosovo’s DokuFest in 2015 and was selected to participate in the Distribution Rewired market at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2016.
Production is scheduled to be completed in December this year.
Starline’s director of acquisitions, Piers Nightingale commented: “Life – not least family life – is so often stranger than fiction, and when Dave...
UK sales outfit Starline Entertainment has taken worldwide rights to Dave Evans’s investigative documentary My Grandfather The Spy.
Co-directed by Martin Scanlan, the film follows Evans’s [pictured in the film] attempt to unearth secrets from his family’s past – to solve the mystery behind his grandfather’s frequent trips behind the Iron Curtain during the height of the Cold War.
The project was developed through the New Discoveries programme at The Balkan Documentary Center, and had support from Ffilm Cymru Wales, as well as BBC Wales. It received a special mention at Kosovo’s DokuFest in 2015 and was selected to participate in the Distribution Rewired market at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2016.
Production is scheduled to be completed in December this year.
Starline’s director of acquisitions, Piers Nightingale commented: “Life – not least family life – is so often stranger than fiction, and when Dave...
- 8/1/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Ten film projects, including features from Doctor Who director Euros Lyn and Borrowed Time producer Olivier Kaempfer, have been selected to progress to the first round of the Film Agency for Wales’ low budget film scheme.
The teams behind these projects will now participate in a training and mentoring programme supported by Creative Skillset’s Film Skills Fund, which is funded by the National Lottery via the BFI, and through the Skills Investment Fund (Sif).
The Film Agency for Wales devised and developed Cinematic in partnership with the BFI Film Fund, BBC Films, S4C and Soda Pictures to support emerging filmmaking talent from Wales in making “contemporary, dynamic and distinctive feature films” with budgets of around £300,000 ($480,000).
A total of 56 applications were made to the programme following its launch in June. The ten projects and their filmmaking teams selected to continue with the programme are:
Craig’s Film (working title)
Producer: Pip Broughton
Writer / Director: [link...
The teams behind these projects will now participate in a training and mentoring programme supported by Creative Skillset’s Film Skills Fund, which is funded by the National Lottery via the BFI, and through the Skills Investment Fund (Sif).
The Film Agency for Wales devised and developed Cinematic in partnership with the BFI Film Fund, BBC Films, S4C and Soda Pictures to support emerging filmmaking talent from Wales in making “contemporary, dynamic and distinctive feature films” with budgets of around £300,000 ($480,000).
A total of 56 applications were made to the programme following its launch in June. The ten projects and their filmmaking teams selected to continue with the programme are:
Craig’s Film (working title)
Producer: Pip Broughton
Writer / Director: [link...
- 10/9/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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