Screen International is today unveiling its 2014 UK Stars of Tomorrow, profiling rising actors, writers, directors, producers and heads of department.Click here for the digital edition [Subscribers]Gallery: UK Stars of Tomorrow 2014
The 2014 Class of Screen International UK Stars of Tomorrow are: (click on each name for individual profile)
The Actors
Jamie Blackley
The South London native will star opposite Chloe Grace Moretz in If I Stay for Warner Bros/MGM.
Olivia Cooke
The 20-year-old Manchester native is already a familiar face in the Us, where she stars in TV series Bates Motel.
Sophie Cookson
The Oxford School of drama graduate landed the female lead in Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service.
McKell David
At just 17, this Harrow teenager is a veteran of his own YouTube show and will star in three new features: Don’t Grow Up, Legacy and Montana.
Calvin Demba
The 20-year-old East Ender has just shot an episode of Babylon and will star...
The 2014 Class of Screen International UK Stars of Tomorrow are: (click on each name for individual profile)
The Actors
Jamie Blackley
The South London native will star opposite Chloe Grace Moretz in If I Stay for Warner Bros/MGM.
Olivia Cooke
The 20-year-old Manchester native is already a familiar face in the Us, where she stars in TV series Bates Motel.
Sophie Cookson
The Oxford School of drama graduate landed the female lead in Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service.
McKell David
At just 17, this Harrow teenager is a veteran of his own YouTube show and will star in three new features: Don’t Grow Up, Legacy and Montana.
Calvin Demba
The 20-year-old East Ender has just shot an episode of Babylon and will star...
- 6/5/2014
- ScreenDaily
The two top prizes at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival went to Screen Stars of Tomorrow Jamie Stone and Felix Massie.
British filmmakers Jamie Stone and Felix Massie have taken the top awards at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, making it the first double British win at the festival.
Stone, a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2012, took the Brief Encounters Grand Prix Award for his short film Orbit Ever After for its ‘creative ingenuity, inspired casting, humour, clarity of storytelling and poetic ending’.
Massie, a Star of Tomorrow in 2009, won the Animated Encounters Grand Prix Award for In the Air Is Christopher Gray.
The films now qualify for Oscar nominations. Stone’s Orbit Ever After was also named as the festival’s Short Film nominee for the European Film Awards 2013.
The Best Of British animation award went to Anomalies by Ben Cady, with the live action award going to Rosemary Jane, directed by [link...
British filmmakers Jamie Stone and Felix Massie have taken the top awards at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, making it the first double British win at the festival.
Stone, a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2012, took the Brief Encounters Grand Prix Award for his short film Orbit Ever After for its ‘creative ingenuity, inspired casting, humour, clarity of storytelling and poetic ending’.
Massie, a Star of Tomorrow in 2009, won the Animated Encounters Grand Prix Award for In the Air Is Christopher Gray.
The films now qualify for Oscar nominations. Stone’s Orbit Ever After was also named as the festival’s Short Film nominee for the European Film Awards 2013.
The Best Of British animation award went to Anomalies by Ben Cady, with the live action award going to Rosemary Jane, directed by [link...
- 9/23/2013
- by sarah.cooper@screendaily.com (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
The 19th Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival has announced its international line-up, with films starring Ben Whishaw and Alan Rickman.
A total of 225 works from 40 countries selected to be showcased in competition at the festival from September 17-22 in Bristol. This year the festival received a record 2,372 entries.
Brief Encounters
Brief Encounters will feature live action and mixed format short films from all over the world, including new short format work by a number of established British filmmakers who are returning to the festival: Daniel Mulloy (Bashk), Chris Shepherd (The Ringer), Simon Ellis (Stew and Punch) and John Smith (Dad’s Stick).
Prominent national talent is also on display in Orbit Ever After, directed by 2012 Screen Star of Tomorrow Jamie Stone and starring Mackenzie Crook; No Kaddish in Carmarthen by Jesse Armstrong (Four Lions), Aneil Karia’s Beat, starring Ben Whishaw; and Ben Ockrent’s Dust featuring Alan Rickman and Jody Whittaker.
The competition...
A total of 225 works from 40 countries selected to be showcased in competition at the festival from September 17-22 in Bristol. This year the festival received a record 2,372 entries.
Brief Encounters
Brief Encounters will feature live action and mixed format short films from all over the world, including new short format work by a number of established British filmmakers who are returning to the festival: Daniel Mulloy (Bashk), Chris Shepherd (The Ringer), Simon Ellis (Stew and Punch) and John Smith (Dad’s Stick).
Prominent national talent is also on display in Orbit Ever After, directed by 2012 Screen Star of Tomorrow Jamie Stone and starring Mackenzie Crook; No Kaddish in Carmarthen by Jesse Armstrong (Four Lions), Aneil Karia’s Beat, starring Ben Whishaw; and Ben Ockrent’s Dust featuring Alan Rickman and Jody Whittaker.
The competition...
- 7/26/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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