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Indie Movie “Game-Changer”
£1B worth of sweeteners: It was a potentially “game-changing” week for a floundering British indie film sector with the unveiling of a 40% tax relief on movies with budgets less than £15M ($19M) — a relief that trade body Pact says it has been calling for in some form or another since 2017 and which answers the prayers of Culture, Media & Sport Committee boss Caroline Dinenage. Jeremy Hunt’s budget was perhaps the most listened-to and most celebrated for a decade by the creative industries after the UK Chancellor unveiled the relief with fanfare alongside 40% business rates relief for big studios and improved VFX relief. All in all, Hunt and the UK treasury said that the...
Indie Movie “Game-Changer”
£1B worth of sweeteners: It was a potentially “game-changing” week for a floundering British indie film sector with the unveiling of a 40% tax relief on movies with budgets less than £15M ($19M) — a relief that trade body Pact says it has been calling for in some form or another since 2017 and which answers the prayers of Culture, Media & Sport Committee boss Caroline Dinenage. Jeremy Hunt’s budget was perhaps the most listened-to and most celebrated for a decade by the creative industries after the UK Chancellor unveiled the relief with fanfare alongside 40% business rates relief for big studios and improved VFX relief. All in all, Hunt and the UK treasury said that the...
- 3/8/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone and Stacy Snider’s Chernobyl producer Sister has hired an in-house Covid Supervisor for at least the next six months to oversee protocols on set.
Neil Chordia, who runs Urban Hymn producer ChorMedia but has been Covid-supervising on various productions since the pandemic started, commences with an initial six-month contract having performed the role as a freelancer on the third series of Sister’s BBC1 drama The Split.
The Covid Supervisor’s role is to ensure the UK’s stringent set of protocols are implemented successfully.
All productions are tasked with having a Covid Supervisor but Sister’s move is rare in that indies tend to either give the role to an existing staff member alongside their pre-existing duties or engage a supervisor on a freelance basis.
Chordia has developed expertise in the area, having performed the role on Pablo Larraín’s big budget biopic...
Neil Chordia, who runs Urban Hymn producer ChorMedia but has been Covid-supervising on various productions since the pandemic started, commences with an initial six-month contract having performed the role as a freelancer on the third series of Sister’s BBC1 drama The Split.
The Covid Supervisor’s role is to ensure the UK’s stringent set of protocols are implemented successfully.
All productions are tasked with having a Covid Supervisor but Sister’s move is rare in that indies tend to either give the role to an existing staff member alongside their pre-existing duties or engage a supervisor on a freelance basis.
Chordia has developed expertise in the area, having performed the role on Pablo Larraín’s big budget biopic...
- 11/2/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Government’s 16-24 jobs initiative allows groups to apply for support.
Several small TV and film producers are attempting to join forces to offer employment opportunities to young people via the government’s Kickstart Scheme, which opened last week.
The £2bn scheme will cover a 16-24 year old’s wages for six months plus overheads and was revealed in chancellor Rishi Sunak’s emergency summer budget.
In what initially appeared a blow to the screen sectors, which are made up of mostly companies with low-staff numbers, the scheme is only available to applications for a minimum of 30 job placements.
However,...
Several small TV and film producers are attempting to join forces to offer employment opportunities to young people via the government’s Kickstart Scheme, which opened last week.
The £2bn scheme will cover a 16-24 year old’s wages for six months plus overheads and was revealed in chancellor Rishi Sunak’s emergency summer budget.
In what initially appeared a blow to the screen sectors, which are made up of mostly companies with low-staff numbers, the scheme is only available to applications for a minimum of 30 job placements.
However,...
- 9/8/2020
- by Max Goldbart Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Shirley Henderson, Letitia Wright, Isabella Laughland star; Metro International to sell.
Shoot is underway in London on Michael Caton-Jones drama Urban Hymn, Nick Moorcroft’s (St. Trinian’s) script about the relationship between a young female offender and a determined social worker during the 2011 UK summer riots.
Shirley Henderson (Southcliffe) will star opposite Screen Star of Tomorrow Letitia Wright (Top Boy, My Brother The Devil) and Isabella Laughland (Now Is Good).
Additional cast includes Ian Hart, Steven Mackintosh and musician and activist Billy Bragg.
The coming of age story set in south-west London follows a wayward teen with a talent for singing who becomes torn between her loyalties towards an inspiring, unconventional care worker and her possessive and volatile best friend.
Caton-Jones commented: “I’m tremendously excited with the potential of Urban Hymn. Nick Moorcroft’s heartbreakingly beautiful screenplay perfectly captures a tale of hope and humanity and examines the transcendental nature of music in a cold...
Shoot is underway in London on Michael Caton-Jones drama Urban Hymn, Nick Moorcroft’s (St. Trinian’s) script about the relationship between a young female offender and a determined social worker during the 2011 UK summer riots.
Shirley Henderson (Southcliffe) will star opposite Screen Star of Tomorrow Letitia Wright (Top Boy, My Brother The Devil) and Isabella Laughland (Now Is Good).
Additional cast includes Ian Hart, Steven Mackintosh and musician and activist Billy Bragg.
The coming of age story set in south-west London follows a wayward teen with a talent for singing who becomes torn between her loyalties towards an inspiring, unconventional care worker and her possessive and volatile best friend.
Caton-Jones commented: “I’m tremendously excited with the potential of Urban Hymn. Nick Moorcroft’s heartbreakingly beautiful screenplay perfectly captures a tale of hope and humanity and examines the transcendental nature of music in a cold...
- 9/22/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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