The projects have received between £10,000 - £80,000.
The BFI has increased its funding commitment to the BFI Doc Society Fund to £1.776m for a period of 18 months.
The organisation had earlier this year committed to injecting £1m annually into the newly-formed fund, which has taken over all of the BFI’s production funding activities for documentaries.
A total of £650,000 of that amount was ring-fenced for production grants, with the remaining £350,000 set aside for initiatives including four regional outreach events a year, an edit lab, staff costs and further events.
That amount has now increased to £1.776m to cover a period of 18 months.
The BFI has increased its funding commitment to the BFI Doc Society Fund to £1.776m for a period of 18 months.
The organisation had earlier this year committed to injecting £1m annually into the newly-formed fund, which has taken over all of the BFI’s production funding activities for documentaries.
A total of £650,000 of that amount was ring-fenced for production grants, with the remaining £350,000 set aside for initiatives including four regional outreach events a year, an edit lab, staff costs and further events.
That amount has now increased to £1.776m to cover a period of 18 months.
- 11/23/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The projects have received between £10,000 - £80,000.
The BFI has increased its funding commitment to the BFI Doc Society Fund by 50% from an annual £1m to £1.5m per year.
The organisation had earlier this year committed to injecting £1m annually into the newly-formed fund, which has taken over all of the BFI’s production funding activities for documentaries.
A total of £650,000 of that amount was ring-fenced for production grants, with the remaining £350,000 set aside for initiatives including four regional outreach events a year, an edit lab, staff costs and further events.
That amount has now increased to £1.776m to cover a period of 15 months,...
The BFI has increased its funding commitment to the BFI Doc Society Fund by 50% from an annual £1m to £1.5m per year.
The organisation had earlier this year committed to injecting £1m annually into the newly-formed fund, which has taken over all of the BFI’s production funding activities for documentaries.
A total of £650,000 of that amount was ring-fenced for production grants, with the remaining £350,000 set aside for initiatives including four regional outreach events a year, an edit lab, staff costs and further events.
That amount has now increased to £1.776m to cover a period of 15 months,...
- 11/23/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Writer-director Claire Oakley makes feature debut on project.
Screen can unveil a first look at Molly Windsor (a TV Bafta winner for BBC series Three Girls) in writer-director Claire Oakley’s feature debut Make Up, which has now wrapped following a five-week shoot in Cornwall, UK.
The film is produced by Emily Morgan of Quiddity Films (I Am Not A Witch) and was developed through Creative England’s iFeatures initiative - which has previously produced features including Lady Macbeth and Apostasy - in partnership with the BFI, BBC Films and Creative Skillset.
In Make Up, Windsor portrays a young woman...
Screen can unveil a first look at Molly Windsor (a TV Bafta winner for BBC series Three Girls) in writer-director Claire Oakley’s feature debut Make Up, which has now wrapped following a five-week shoot in Cornwall, UK.
The film is produced by Emily Morgan of Quiddity Films (I Am Not A Witch) and was developed through Creative England’s iFeatures initiative - which has previously produced features including Lady Macbeth and Apostasy - in partnership with the BFI, BBC Films and Creative Skillset.
In Make Up, Windsor portrays a young woman...
- 5/22/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Kaleidoscope picks up Justin Edgar-directed movie.
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment (Khe) has taken all UK rights to writer-director Justin Edgar’s thriller The Marker and plan to release across all formats later in the year.
The dark thriller charts the story of a criminal who seeks redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed.
Cast includes Frederick Schmidt (Starred Up), Ana Uluru (Inferno) and John Hannah (The Mummy).
Supporting cast includes Cosmo Jarvis (Lady Macbeth), Struan Rodger (Kill List), Cathy Tyson (Mona Lisa), Lara Peake (How to Talk to Girls at Parties), Ian Sharp (Pleasure Island...
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment (Khe) has taken all UK rights to writer-director Justin Edgar’s thriller The Marker and plan to release across all formats later in the year.
The dark thriller charts the story of a criminal who seeks redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed.
Cast includes Frederick Schmidt (Starred Up), Ana Uluru (Inferno) and John Hannah (The Mummy).
Supporting cast includes Cosmo Jarvis (Lady Macbeth), Struan Rodger (Kill List), Cathy Tyson (Mona Lisa), Lara Peake (How to Talk to Girls at Parties), Ian Sharp (Pleasure Island...
- 6/21/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Screen Stars of Tomorrow involved in trio of projects set for production.
A trio of projects have been greenlit for production in the latest round of Creative England’s low-budget filmmaking initiative iFeatures.
Three Screen Stars of Tomorrow are present in the selected teams - writer-director Eva Riley with Perfect Ten, producer Emily Morgan with Make-up, and producer Michelle Eastwood with Retreat, which is set to be the first British feature film to be made entirely in sign-language.
The latest set of productions follows a period of success for the programme. Last year, William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth [pictured] and Hope Dickson Leach’s The Levelling, both greenlit by iFeatures in 2015, secured major festival berths.
Subsequently, Lady Macbeth sold to the Us (Roadside Attractions) and UK (Altitude Film) among others, and Peccadillo Pictures acquired The Levelling for the UK.
The three selected projects in 2017 are:
Perfect Ten, written and directed by 2016 Screen Star of Tomorrow Eva Riley and produced...
A trio of projects have been greenlit for production in the latest round of Creative England’s low-budget filmmaking initiative iFeatures.
Three Screen Stars of Tomorrow are present in the selected teams - writer-director Eva Riley with Perfect Ten, producer Emily Morgan with Make-up, and producer Michelle Eastwood with Retreat, which is set to be the first British feature film to be made entirely in sign-language.
The latest set of productions follows a period of success for the programme. Last year, William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth [pictured] and Hope Dickson Leach’s The Levelling, both greenlit by iFeatures in 2015, secured major festival berths.
Subsequently, Lady Macbeth sold to the Us (Roadside Attractions) and UK (Altitude Film) among others, and Peccadillo Pictures acquired The Levelling for the UK.
The three selected projects in 2017 are:
Perfect Ten, written and directed by 2016 Screen Star of Tomorrow Eva Riley and produced...
- 2/15/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater) orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Crime film from director Justin Edgar is being launched at Efm.
London-based sales outfit Truffle Pictures has boarded Justin Edgar’s dark thriller The Marker and will launch the completed film at this week’s European Film Market in Berlin.
Starring Frederick Schmidt (Starred Up), Ana Ularu (Inferno) and John Hannah (Four Weddings And A Funeral), the film follows a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of a woman he killed. Along the way, he is haunted by guilt in the guise of the woman’s ghost.
The project was backed by Creative England, Sharp House and Met Film Post, with Film Finances providing the completed bond.
Ian Sharp, Rebecca Joerin-Sharp, Alex Usborne and director Edgar are producing for 104 films. Paul Ashton and Cavan Ash serve as executive producers for Creative England and Met Film Post respectively. Former Creative England exec Richard Holmes (who was made redundant in March last year) continues to executive...
London-based sales outfit Truffle Pictures has boarded Justin Edgar’s dark thriller The Marker and will launch the completed film at this week’s European Film Market in Berlin.
Starring Frederick Schmidt (Starred Up), Ana Ularu (Inferno) and John Hannah (Four Weddings And A Funeral), the film follows a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of a woman he killed. Along the way, he is haunted by guilt in the guise of the woman’s ghost.
The project was backed by Creative England, Sharp House and Met Film Post, with Film Finances providing the completed bond.
Ian Sharp, Rebecca Joerin-Sharp, Alex Usborne and director Edgar are producing for 104 films. Paul Ashton and Cavan Ash serve as executive producers for Creative England and Met Film Post respectively. Former Creative England exec Richard Holmes (who was made redundant in March last year) continues to executive...
- 2/8/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
“American Honey” took the top prize at the 2016 British Independent Film Awards, which was held on Sunday at London’s Old Billingsgate.
“American Honey” was named Best British Independent Film, and also scored three additional awards (including Best Director for Andrea Arnold). Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” was the night’s only non-uk winner, picking up honors for Best International Independent Film.
The 19th annual Bifa ceremony, hosted by Jennifer Saunders, also presented Clare Binns with the Special Jury Prize for her “unstinting efforts in bringing independent film to new audiences.”
Naomie Harris was also presented the Variety Award by Danny Boyle, in recognition of the global impact she made this year in helping to focus the international film spotlight on the UK.
Read More: La Film Critics Association Name the Best Films and Performances of 2016
The Richard Harris Award was given to Alison Steadman by Richard Harris’ granddaughter Ella Harris and...
“American Honey” was named Best British Independent Film, and also scored three additional awards (including Best Director for Andrea Arnold). Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” was the night’s only non-uk winner, picking up honors for Best International Independent Film.
The 19th annual Bifa ceremony, hosted by Jennifer Saunders, also presented Clare Binns with the Special Jury Prize for her “unstinting efforts in bringing independent film to new audiences.”
Naomie Harris was also presented the Variety Award by Danny Boyle, in recognition of the global impact she made this year in helping to focus the international film spotlight on the UK.
Read More: La Film Critics Association Name the Best Films and Performances of 2016
The Richard Harris Award was given to Alison Steadman by Richard Harris’ granddaughter Ella Harris and...
- 12/4/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Shortlist features six former Screen Stars Of Tomorrow.
Lady Macbeth backer Creative England has revealed the eight projects and filmmaking teams from iFeatures’ fourth development slate shortlisted to be taken forward to the full development phase.
Three of these films will be selected to go into production in 2017.
The final eight films and filmmaker teams are:
· Make Up – writer/director Claire Oakley, producer Emily Morgan. Set in Cornwall.
· Sleeping City – writer/directors Manjeet Gill, Andrew Walker and Matthew Carter, producer Emily Morgan. Set in Birmingham.
· Seaholme - writer/director Rob Savage, writer David Sugarman, producers Rob Watson and Paul Van Carter. Set in Mersea Island, Essex.
· The Premises – writer/director Rose Glass, producer Oliver Kassman. Set in the Lake District.
· Retreat – director Ted Evans, writer E.V Crowe, producers Michelle Eastwood and Alex Usborne. Set in and around Bristol.
· Blow Up Dolls – director Carolina Giammetta, writer Joy Wilkinson, producer Jude Goldrei. Set in Burnley...
Lady Macbeth backer Creative England has revealed the eight projects and filmmaking teams from iFeatures’ fourth development slate shortlisted to be taken forward to the full development phase.
Three of these films will be selected to go into production in 2017.
The final eight films and filmmaker teams are:
· Make Up – writer/director Claire Oakley, producer Emily Morgan. Set in Cornwall.
· Sleeping City – writer/directors Manjeet Gill, Andrew Walker and Matthew Carter, producer Emily Morgan. Set in Birmingham.
· Seaholme - writer/director Rob Savage, writer David Sugarman, producers Rob Watson and Paul Van Carter. Set in Mersea Island, Essex.
· The Premises – writer/director Rose Glass, producer Oliver Kassman. Set in the Lake District.
· Retreat – director Ted Evans, writer E.V Crowe, producers Michelle Eastwood and Alex Usborne. Set in and around Bristol.
· Blow Up Dolls – director Carolina Giammetta, writer Joy Wilkinson, producer Jude Goldrei. Set in Burnley...
- 11/10/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The Swedish Film Institute has backed nineteen projects in its latest round of funding.
Swedish director Sanna Lenken, who won Berlin’s Crystal Bear in 2015 with My Skinny Sister, is now making a 30-minute short Night Child (Nattbarn), based on a graphic novel by Hanna Gustafsson.
The story is about 14-year-old girl Iggy “who lives a parallel online life to avoid the everyday tedium. A story about identity, sexuality, borderlands and friendship.”
The film is one of several new productions getting backing from the Swedish Film Institute. Others include Dome Karukoski’s anticipated new Tom Of Finland biopic [pictured] and Agnieszka Holland’s Polish drama Game Count.
Other projects backed, listed from highest investments, are:
Becoming Zlatan, wr/dirs Fredrik Gertten, Magnus Gertten; prods Margarete Jangård, Lennart Ström. Documentary about charismatic footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović. $246,000 (2m Sek)
Tom Of Finland, dir Dome Karukoski, wr Aleksi Bardy, prods Gunnar Carlsson, Emma Åkesdotter Ronge. Drama about the...
Swedish director Sanna Lenken, who won Berlin’s Crystal Bear in 2015 with My Skinny Sister, is now making a 30-minute short Night Child (Nattbarn), based on a graphic novel by Hanna Gustafsson.
The story is about 14-year-old girl Iggy “who lives a parallel online life to avoid the everyday tedium. A story about identity, sexuality, borderlands and friendship.”
The film is one of several new productions getting backing from the Swedish Film Institute. Others include Dome Karukoski’s anticipated new Tom Of Finland biopic [pictured] and Agnieszka Holland’s Polish drama Game Count.
Other projects backed, listed from highest investments, are:
Becoming Zlatan, wr/dirs Fredrik Gertten, Magnus Gertten; prods Margarete Jangård, Lennart Ström. Documentary about charismatic footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović. $246,000 (2m Sek)
Tom Of Finland, dir Dome Karukoski, wr Aleksi Bardy, prods Gunnar Carlsson, Emma Åkesdotter Ronge. Drama about the...
- 4/4/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Starred Up and Snow In Paradise star leads cast in thriller from 104 Films.
Shooting is underway in Birmingham, UK, on noir thriller The Marker starring Frederick Schmidt (Starred Up, Snow in Paradise), Ana Uluru (Serena) and John Hannah (Four Weddings And A Funeral, The Mummy).
Writer-director Justin Edgar’s (We Are The Freaks) fourth film is a low-budget noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman’s ghost.
Backers include Creative England, Achilles Entertainments and Met Film Post.
Producers are Ian Sharp and Rebecca Joerin-Sharp from Achilles Entertainments with Alex Usborne and Edgar from 104 Films.
Executive producers are Richard Holmes and Cavan Ash for Creative England and Met Film Post respectively. Film Finances are providing the completion bond.
Supporting cast includes Struan Rodger (Kill List), Ian Sharp (Pleasure Island), Cathy Tyson (Mona...
Shooting is underway in Birmingham, UK, on noir thriller The Marker starring Frederick Schmidt (Starred Up, Snow in Paradise), Ana Uluru (Serena) and John Hannah (Four Weddings And A Funeral, The Mummy).
Writer-director Justin Edgar’s (We Are The Freaks) fourth film is a low-budget noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman’s ghost.
Backers include Creative England, Achilles Entertainments and Met Film Post.
Producers are Ian Sharp and Rebecca Joerin-Sharp from Achilles Entertainments with Alex Usborne and Edgar from 104 Films.
Executive producers are Richard Holmes and Cavan Ash for Creative England and Met Film Post respectively. Film Finances are providing the completion bond.
Supporting cast includes Struan Rodger (Kill List), Ian Sharp (Pleasure Island), Cathy Tyson (Mona...
- 1/7/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Starred Up and Snow In Paradise star leads cast in thriller from 104 Films.
Shooting is underway in Birmingham, UK, on noir thriller The Marker starring Frederick Schmidt (Starred Up, Snow in Paradise), Ana Uluru (Serena) and John Hannah (Four Weddings And A Funeral, The Mummy).
Writer-director Justin Edgar’s (We Are The Freaks) fourth film is a noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman’s ghost.
Backers include Creative England, Achilles Entertainments and Met Film Post.
Producers are Ian Sharp and Rebecca Joerin-Sharp from Achilles Entertainments with Alex Usborne and Edgar from 104 Films.
Executive producers are Richard Holmes and Cavan Ash for Creative England and Met Film Post respectively. Film Finances are providing the completion bond.
Supporting cast includes Struan Rodger (Kill List), Ian Sharp (Pleasure Island), Cathy Tyson (Mona...
Shooting is underway in Birmingham, UK, on noir thriller The Marker starring Frederick Schmidt (Starred Up, Snow in Paradise), Ana Uluru (Serena) and John Hannah (Four Weddings And A Funeral, The Mummy).
Writer-director Justin Edgar’s (We Are The Freaks) fourth film is a noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman’s ghost.
Backers include Creative England, Achilles Entertainments and Met Film Post.
Producers are Ian Sharp and Rebecca Joerin-Sharp from Achilles Entertainments with Alex Usborne and Edgar from 104 Films.
Executive producers are Richard Holmes and Cavan Ash for Creative England and Met Film Post respectively. Film Finances are providing the completion bond.
Supporting cast includes Struan Rodger (Kill List), Ian Sharp (Pleasure Island), Cathy Tyson (Mona...
- 1/7/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Projects range from a film about centenarians to documentaries about renowned hunger striker Bobby Sands, Winnie Mandela, Ratko Mladic and Madonna’s backing dancers.Scroll down for full list of projects
Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has unveiled the 50 titles that will be presented at its international co-finance and production market, the Idfa Forum (Nov 24-26).
At the market, filmmakers and producers will present their documentary projects to commissioning editors from international television stations and other financiers with the aim of completing finance for their documentary projects.
A total of 50 projects have been selected for the upcoming Idfa Forum, including new projects by Heddy Honigmann, Janus Metz and Vitaly Mansky.
The Idfa 2014 programme contains 17 documentaries that were presented as projects at previous editions of the Idfa Forum.
Projects selected for this year’s Idfa Forum will be pitched in a variety of settings: the central pitches in the main auditorium of the Compagnietheater, the round table...
Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has unveiled the 50 titles that will be presented at its international co-finance and production market, the Idfa Forum (Nov 24-26).
At the market, filmmakers and producers will present their documentary projects to commissioning editors from international television stations and other financiers with the aim of completing finance for their documentary projects.
A total of 50 projects have been selected for the upcoming Idfa Forum, including new projects by Heddy Honigmann, Janus Metz and Vitaly Mansky.
The Idfa 2014 programme contains 17 documentaries that were presented as projects at previous editions of the Idfa Forum.
Projects selected for this year’s Idfa Forum will be pitched in a variety of settings: the central pitches in the main auditorium of the Compagnietheater, the round table...
- 10/14/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
German distributor Lighthouse has acquired rights from 104 Films to Justin Edgar’s We Are The Freaks for German-speaking territories.
The off-beat comedy, starring 2014 Screen International Star of Tomorrow Jamie Blackley, centres on one eventful night with three teenagers, set against the backdrop of the social and political turmoil of 1990 England. Producer is Alex Usborne.
The film has now clocked up eight territories in direct sales for 104 Films. It was released in the UK in April and has since been released on DVD and for download by UK distributor Metrodome.
In addition to the film’s cult following, Blackley has also seen his star rise. He appears in teen drama If I Stay with Chloe Grace Moretz, released in the Us last weekend, and will be seen in Yorgos Lanthimos’s upcoming feature The Lobster, starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz.
Blackley will also star opposite Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams in Woody Allen’s untitled next film...
The off-beat comedy, starring 2014 Screen International Star of Tomorrow Jamie Blackley, centres on one eventful night with three teenagers, set against the backdrop of the social and political turmoil of 1990 England. Producer is Alex Usborne.
The film has now clocked up eight territories in direct sales for 104 Films. It was released in the UK in April and has since been released on DVD and for download by UK distributor Metrodome.
In addition to the film’s cult following, Blackley has also seen his star rise. He appears in teen drama If I Stay with Chloe Grace Moretz, released in the Us last weekend, and will be seen in Yorgos Lanthimos’s upcoming feature The Lobster, starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz.
Blackley will also star opposite Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams in Woody Allen’s untitled next film...
- 8/28/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "Into Darkness" Tweetable Logline: A journey into the world of blindness Elevator Pitch: In the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his fist son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audiocassette. Over the next three years he kept this diary, excavating the interior world of blindness. The diaries were published in 1991 to wide critical acclaim. With exclusive access to these original recordings, "Into Darkness" is a cinematic documentary, encompassing dreams, memory and imaginative life, immersing the viewer in John’s experience of blindness. Production Team:Producers/Directors: Peter Middleton,...
- 1/10/2014
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Notes on Blindness, a short docudrama screening at Sundance in January, is being developed into a feature film.
Into Darkness will examine the true-life journey into blindness by academic John Hull, recorded in his autobiographical account Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness. The directors were given exclusive access to the audio tapes Hull recorded in the early 1980s as he struggled to deal with his condition, and these will form the narration and structure for the film along with archive footage, verbatim reconstructions and dramatic interpretation.
The film will be produced by Alex Usborne for 104 Films, which has credits including We Are The Freaks, and Jojo Ellison for Archer’s Mark, which recently completed production on its debut feature War Book starring Sophie Okonedo and Anthony Sher.
Pete Middleton and James Spinney will direct the feature from their own script, and Gerry Floyd will serve as director of photography.
With the full...
Into Darkness will examine the true-life journey into blindness by academic John Hull, recorded in his autobiographical account Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness. The directors were given exclusive access to the audio tapes Hull recorded in the early 1980s as he struggled to deal with his condition, and these will form the narration and structure for the film along with archive footage, verbatim reconstructions and dramatic interpretation.
The film will be produced by Alex Usborne for 104 Films, which has credits including We Are The Freaks, and Jojo Ellison for Archer’s Mark, which recently completed production on its debut feature War Book starring Sophie Okonedo and Anthony Sher.
Pete Middleton and James Spinney will direct the feature from their own script, and Gerry Floyd will serve as director of photography.
With the full...
- 12/20/2013
- ScreenDaily
104 Films has won the contract to deliver The Accelerator, a training and development programme for Welsh creativetalents.
The scheme is run by Creative Skillset Cymru as part of its Skills for the Digital Economy Programme.
The Accelerator initative will run for 7 months (starting in October 2013) and include 15 Welsh talents to help them fast track their projects and understand wider markets and raise strategic and business skills.
Alex Usborne [pictured], 104 Films MD, said: “This programme builds on the training and development programmes we have been designing and delivering over the past years and establishes 104 Films as the UK’s leading company in the field of creative business development… The Accelerator is about real projects going through real development and finding real finance. Our aim is that the Accelerator will make a tectonic difference to the vision and ambition of our participants and enable them to finance, market and distribute projects at an international level.”
Producers Usborne...
The scheme is run by Creative Skillset Cymru as part of its Skills for the Digital Economy Programme.
The Accelerator initative will run for 7 months (starting in October 2013) and include 15 Welsh talents to help them fast track their projects and understand wider markets and raise strategic and business skills.
Alex Usborne [pictured], 104 Films MD, said: “This programme builds on the training and development programmes we have been designing and delivering over the past years and establishes 104 Films as the UK’s leading company in the field of creative business development… The Accelerator is about real projects going through real development and finding real finance. Our aim is that the Accelerator will make a tectonic difference to the vision and ambition of our participants and enable them to finance, market and distribute projects at an international level.”
Producers Usborne...
- 8/6/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
A total of 12 projects selected for training addressing the changing face of distribution.Scroll down for full list of projects
Film London has revealed the 12 projects participating in Audience on Demand, the training and mentorship programme addressing the changing face of feature film distribution.
Details of the successful film-makers and projects were unveiled at The Future of Independent Distribution event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which featured a case study on Film London Microwave’s Borrowed Time, currently preparing for a self funded direct distribution UK release on August 16.
Audience on Demand, funded by Creative Skillset and run in partnership with Creative England, is a three-month pilot programme that mixes classroom and one-on-one sessions alongside dedicated mentoring from top industry experts.
For emerging UK talent with a completed first or second feature, a key aspect of the programme is a marketing and distribution plan created by Iris Lamprecht (Film Tiki). This enables the participating teams to develop...
Film London has revealed the 12 projects participating in Audience on Demand, the training and mentorship programme addressing the changing face of feature film distribution.
Details of the successful film-makers and projects were unveiled at The Future of Independent Distribution event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which featured a case study on Film London Microwave’s Borrowed Time, currently preparing for a self funded direct distribution UK release on August 16.
Audience on Demand, funded by Creative Skillset and run in partnership with Creative England, is a three-month pilot programme that mixes classroom and one-on-one sessions alongside dedicated mentoring from top industry experts.
For emerging UK talent with a completed first or second feature, a key aspect of the programme is a marketing and distribution plan created by Iris Lamprecht (Film Tiki). This enables the participating teams to develop...
- 6/24/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Screenterrier spotted We Are The Freaks, a new teen comedy directed by Justin Edgar and produced by Alex Usborne at 104 Films back in March last year when it started filming.
Starring two Skins alumni, Mike Bailey (represented by Waring and McKenna) and Sean Teale (also Waring and McKenna), alongside fast-rising star Jamie Blackley (represented by United Agents).
The cast also includes Michael Smiley, Rosamund Hanson, and Adam Gillen, and the film is set to premiere at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Check out the trailer below!
Starring two Skins alumni, Mike Bailey (represented by Waring and McKenna) and Sean Teale (also Waring and McKenna), alongside fast-rising star Jamie Blackley (represented by United Agents).
The cast also includes Michael Smiley, Rosamund Hanson, and Adam Gillen, and the film is set to premiere at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Check out the trailer below!
- 6/18/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Exclusive: Justin Edgar’s teen comedy stars Michael Smiley and Jamie Blackley. Watch the first trailer here.
104 Films’ We Are The Freaks has been chosen as the opening film of the Bornshorts film festival in Denmark, which runs September 12-14.
Written and directed by Justin Edgar, the anarchic “anti-teen comedy” about three misfits on a disastrous night out, is set against the social and political turmoil of 1990.
Rosamund Hanson, Mike Bailey, Sean Teale, Adam Gillen, Hera Hilmar and Amber Anderson also star.
Profile: Justin Edgar and Alex Usborne, 104 Films
Metrodome will release the film in the UK later this year, following its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and market premiere at Luff.
The film is produced by Alex Usborne and Justin Edgar for their UK production company 104 Films, with Gareth Jones and Colin Pons as executive producers. Metfilm Post are co-financiers.
Edgar said: “I am delighted that We Are The Freaks has been invited...
104 Films’ We Are The Freaks has been chosen as the opening film of the Bornshorts film festival in Denmark, which runs September 12-14.
Written and directed by Justin Edgar, the anarchic “anti-teen comedy” about three misfits on a disastrous night out, is set against the social and political turmoil of 1990.
Rosamund Hanson, Mike Bailey, Sean Teale, Adam Gillen, Hera Hilmar and Amber Anderson also star.
Profile: Justin Edgar and Alex Usborne, 104 Films
Metrodome will release the film in the UK later this year, following its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and market premiere at Luff.
The film is produced by Alex Usborne and Justin Edgar for their UK production company 104 Films, with Gareth Jones and Colin Pons as executive producers. Metfilm Post are co-financiers.
Edgar said: “I am delighted that We Are The Freaks has been invited...
- 6/18/2013
- by sarah.cooper@screendaily.com (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
Shooting started on March 5th in Birmingham on teen comedy We Are The Freaks, directed by Justin Edgar and produced by Alex Usborne at 104 Films.
The cast includes two Skins alumni, 23 year old Mike Bailey from Bristol who played Sid in series 1 and 2.
And 19 year old Sean Teale (represented by Waring and McKenna) who stars as Nick in the latest incarnation of Skins characters currently showing on E4.
The young cast also includes 22 year old Rosamund Hanson (represented by Curtis Brown), star of This is England, and 20 year old Jamie Blackley (represented by United Agents), who has just been cast in 300: Battle of Artemisia.
Amber Anderson
Newcomer 20 year old model Amber Anderson (represented by Curtis Brown) also stars, alongside Adam Gillen (represented by Independent Talent) who was recently seen as Brian in Fresh Meat, and Icelandic actress Hera Hilmar (represented by Tavistock Wood), who recently graduated from Lamda.
The...
The cast includes two Skins alumni, 23 year old Mike Bailey from Bristol who played Sid in series 1 and 2.
And 19 year old Sean Teale (represented by Waring and McKenna) who stars as Nick in the latest incarnation of Skins characters currently showing on E4.
The young cast also includes 22 year old Rosamund Hanson (represented by Curtis Brown), star of This is England, and 20 year old Jamie Blackley (represented by United Agents), who has just been cast in 300: Battle of Artemisia.
Amber Anderson
Newcomer 20 year old model Amber Anderson (represented by Curtis Brown) also stars, alongside Adam Gillen (represented by Independent Talent) who was recently seen as Brian in Fresh Meat, and Icelandic actress Hera Hilmar (represented by Tavistock Wood), who recently graduated from Lamda.
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- 3/10/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
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