The fund will re-open for a third round on January 9.
The Uncertain Kingdom development fund – a scheme that aims to address the challenges of filmmakers creating sustainable careers having previously made a feature – has named the projects that are to receive support from its second round of funding, including a documentary exploring the life of late UK politician Mo Mowlam.
The fund was set up originally in 2019 as a short film initiative, led my director and co-founder of UK production outfit Electric Shadow Company John Jencks, along with development executives Isabel Freer and Georgia Goggin, with 21 directors taking part to...
The Uncertain Kingdom development fund – a scheme that aims to address the challenges of filmmakers creating sustainable careers having previously made a feature – has named the projects that are to receive support from its second round of funding, including a documentary exploring the life of late UK politician Mo Mowlam.
The fund was set up originally in 2019 as a short film initiative, led my director and co-founder of UK production outfit Electric Shadow Company John Jencks, along with development executives Isabel Freer and Georgia Goggin, with 21 directors taking part to...
- 12/16/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The Uncertain Kingdom Fund, which disburses development coin to U.K. film projects, is opening submissions for its second round from May 23-June 20.
The fund was set up to support projects that interrogate British culture, asking questions of identity, the current journey and the future. It was created to address the challenges directors and producers face creating sustainable careers and targets filmmakers who have previously made a feature.
The stated aim of the fund is to take a hands-off approach and support filmmakers from a range of backgrounds and experiences. Projects of 70-plus minutes in any form or genre that are currently at treatment or script stage are eligible to apply. Filmmakers must be residents of the U.K. but need not be British.
U.K. distributor Picturehouse Entertainment has an ongoing collaboration with the fund and will continue to be closely involved in the selection of projects.
The first...
The fund was set up to support projects that interrogate British culture, asking questions of identity, the current journey and the future. It was created to address the challenges directors and producers face creating sustainable careers and targets filmmakers who have previously made a feature.
The stated aim of the fund is to take a hands-off approach and support filmmakers from a range of backgrounds and experiences. Projects of 70-plus minutes in any form or genre that are currently at treatment or script stage are eligible to apply. Filmmakers must be residents of the U.K. but need not be British.
U.K. distributor Picturehouse Entertainment has an ongoing collaboration with the fund and will continue to be closely involved in the selection of projects.
The first...
- 5/19/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Four features have received support in the development fund’s first round.
Projects from County Lines filmmaker Henry Blake and Almost Heaven director Carol Salter are among the first four to receive support from the Uncertain Kingdom Development Fund.
The £60,000 fund is a relaunch of The Uncertain Kingdom short film initiative. The aim is to support commercial projects that unpack UK culture and identity and have at least 70-minute running times, with features considered at script or treatment stage.
Unlike the earlier anthology project, the Uncertain Kingdom Development Fund will not fund production and the projects are not intended to be released together.
Projects from County Lines filmmaker Henry Blake and Almost Heaven director Carol Salter are among the first four to receive support from the Uncertain Kingdom Development Fund.
The £60,000 fund is a relaunch of The Uncertain Kingdom short film initiative. The aim is to support commercial projects that unpack UK culture and identity and have at least 70-minute running times, with features considered at script or treatment stage.
Unlike the earlier anthology project, the Uncertain Kingdom Development Fund will not fund production and the projects are not intended to be released together.
- 4/14/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
There are now about 2,000 food banks in the UK, with the Trussell Trust - which runs in the region of 1,200 of those, giving out 823,000 three-day emergency supply packages in the six months to September 2019, a rise of 23 per cent on the year before. Carol Salter's nine-minute short Breadline takes us inside just one of them to see what goes on there at close quarters.
The Mustard Seed Group is based in Fleetwood, Lancashire, a small seaside town in England's northwest, with shots of the beach on an overcast day, complete with the mournful cry of seagulls and whistle of the wind setting the tone for this short. At Mustard Seed, we watch elderly volunteer Dave Simm as he wrangles supplies and helps those who need them. Presented without commentary, we are left to draw our own conclusions from the signs reading "Three items per person" or Dave...
The Mustard Seed Group is based in Fleetwood, Lancashire, a small seaside town in England's northwest, with shots of the beach on an overcast day, complete with the mournful cry of seagulls and whistle of the wind setting the tone for this short. At Mustard Seed, we watch elderly volunteer Dave Simm as he wrangles supplies and helps those who need them. Presented without commentary, we are left to draw our own conclusions from the signs reading "Three items per person" or Dave...
- 7/2/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sheffield Doc/Fest, the U.K.’s leading documentary festival, has unveiled its 2020 selection, with a line-up of 115 films, including 31 world premieres.
Due to coronavirus, this year’s festival is largely taking place online. The June event is also extending its activities throughout the rest of the year both in Sheffield and virtually.
The festival is launching a VOD platform, Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects, on June 10 with pay-per-view and subscription options for U.K.-based public audiences including Q&As with filmmakers.
The Doc/Player, a film industry-oriented video library, is also being made available to festival passholders globally from today to August 31.
The festival is also organising weekend screenings in Sheffield cinemas in October – November.
In addition, Doc/Fest has partnered with BFI Player, Doc Alliance Films, The Guardian, and Mubi which will host its curated programmes at various points between July and November.
As announced previously, Sheffield Doc...
Due to coronavirus, this year’s festival is largely taking place online. The June event is also extending its activities throughout the rest of the year both in Sheffield and virtually.
The festival is launching a VOD platform, Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects, on June 10 with pay-per-view and subscription options for U.K.-based public audiences including Q&As with filmmakers.
The Doc/Player, a film industry-oriented video library, is also being made available to festival passholders globally from today to August 31.
The festival is also organising weekend screenings in Sheffield cinemas in October – November.
In addition, Doc/Fest has partnered with BFI Player, Doc Alliance Films, The Guardian, and Mubi which will host its curated programmes at various points between July and November.
As announced previously, Sheffield Doc...
- 6/8/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Sheffield Doc/Fest, one of the key events in Europe’s factual calendar, has unveiled a line-up for its 2020 edition featuring 115 films from 50 countries, including 31 world premieres.
As Deadline previously reported, this year’s edition, which runs from June 10, will take place largely in an online capacity due to restrictions imposed by the pandemic.
The fest is launching a VOD platform with pay-per-view and subscription options for UK-based audiences that will screen the program and will also feature Q&As with filmmakers. Later, between October and November, organizers are planning to screen films in Sheffield cinemas over select weekends.
In addition, Doc/Fest has partnered with BFI Player, Doc Alliance Films, The Guardian, and Mubi which will host its curated programs at various points between July and November.
On the industry side, the Meetmarket, Alternate Realities Talent Market pitching forums and other activities will take place June 8-10 in an online format.
As Deadline previously reported, this year’s edition, which runs from June 10, will take place largely in an online capacity due to restrictions imposed by the pandemic.
The fest is launching a VOD platform with pay-per-view and subscription options for UK-based audiences that will screen the program and will also feature Q&As with filmmakers. Later, between October and November, organizers are planning to screen films in Sheffield cinemas over select weekends.
In addition, Doc/Fest has partnered with BFI Player, Doc Alliance Films, The Guardian, and Mubi which will host its curated programs at various points between July and November.
On the industry side, the Meetmarket, Alternate Realities Talent Market pitching forums and other activities will take place June 8-10 in an online format.
- 6/8/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The project will play as two feature-length volumes.
UK anthology film The Uncertain Kingdom has switched to an online release on June 1, following the cancellation of its April 3 theatrical launch due to coronavirus.
Released through Verve Pictures, the film will play as two feature-length volumes, available on BFI Player, iTunes, GooglePlay, Amazon Prime Video and Curzon Home Cinema.
Three of the 20 titles will premiere from May 18 via the BFI’s social media channels, in advance of the full launch. Those are David Proud’s Verisimilitude, Lanre Malaolu’s The Conversation, and Carol Salter’s Left Coast.
Verve Pictures said the...
UK anthology film The Uncertain Kingdom has switched to an online release on June 1, following the cancellation of its April 3 theatrical launch due to coronavirus.
Released through Verve Pictures, the film will play as two feature-length volumes, available on BFI Player, iTunes, GooglePlay, Amazon Prime Video and Curzon Home Cinema.
Three of the 20 titles will premiere from May 18 via the BFI’s social media channels, in advance of the full launch. Those are David Proud’s Verisimilitude, Lanre Malaolu’s The Conversation, and Carol Salter’s Left Coast.
Verve Pictures said the...
- 4/23/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Directors include Bifa winners Jason Wingard and Carol Salter.
The Uncertain Kingdom, the £200,000 short film initiative aiming to provide a portrait of the contemporary UK, has unveiled the 20 films on its slate.
Actors participating in the projects include Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Mark Addy (Game Of Thrones), Steve Evets (Apostasy), Hugh Dennis (Fleabag), Andy Hamilton (What We Did On Our Holiday), Ruth Madeley (Years & Years) and Laurie Davidson (Cats).
Screen can also reveal an exclusive first look at one of the titles, Hope Dickson Leach’s Strong Is Better Than Angry, above.
Each film is receiving £10,000. The finance is privately raised.
The Uncertain Kingdom, the £200,000 short film initiative aiming to provide a portrait of the contemporary UK, has unveiled the 20 films on its slate.
Actors participating in the projects include Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Mark Addy (Game Of Thrones), Steve Evets (Apostasy), Hugh Dennis (Fleabag), Andy Hamilton (What We Did On Our Holiday), Ruth Madeley (Years & Years) and Laurie Davidson (Cats).
Screen can also reveal an exclusive first look at one of the titles, Hope Dickson Leach’s Strong Is Better Than Angry, above.
Each film is receiving £10,000. The finance is privately raised.
- 11/18/2019
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Verve Pictures to distribute completed films at the end of the year.
The £200,000 short films initiative The Uncertain Kingdom, launched in December 2018, has finalised the 20 directors who will each receive £10,000 to finance a short film project.
Joining the previously announced Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling) are the Oscar-winning Orlando Von Einsiedel (The White Helmets), International Emmy winner Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered) and Bifa winner Carol Salter (Almost Heaven).
Also on the roster are four former Screen Stars of Tomorrow: actor/writer/director Antonia Campbell-Hughes, writer/director Rubika Shah, and producers Helen Simmons and Yaw Basoah.
The full list of project teams can be found below.
The £200,000 short films initiative The Uncertain Kingdom, launched in December 2018, has finalised the 20 directors who will each receive £10,000 to finance a short film project.
Joining the previously announced Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling) are the Oscar-winning Orlando Von Einsiedel (The White Helmets), International Emmy winner Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered) and Bifa winner Carol Salter (Almost Heaven).
Also on the roster are four former Screen Stars of Tomorrow: actor/writer/director Antonia Campbell-Hughes, writer/director Rubika Shah, and producers Helen Simmons and Yaw Basoah.
The full list of project teams can be found below.
- 5/31/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
“God’s Own Country” won multiple prizes at the British Independent Film Awards, including Best British Independent Film, Best Actor for Josh O’Connor, and Best Debut Screenwriter for Francis Lee. Lee also directed the romantic drama, which stood tall at the ceremony in London; “Lady Macbeth” — which took home the Screenplay, Actress, Most Promising Newcomer, Cinematography, and Costume Design awards — and “I Am Not a Witch” (Director, Debut Director, Breakthrough Producer) had big nights as well.
Read More:‘Lady Macbeth’ Leads British Independent Film Nominations
This year’s ceremony, the 20th, took place in London. Full list of winners:
Best British Independent Film
“God’s Own Country”
Best Director
Rungano Nyoni “I Am Not a Witch”
Best Screenplay
Alice Birch “Lady Macbeth”
Best Actress
Florence Pugh “Lady Macbeth”
Best Actor
Josh O’Connor “God’s Own Country”
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Clarkson “The Party”
Best Supporting Actor
Simon Russell Beale...
Read More:‘Lady Macbeth’ Leads British Independent Film Nominations
This year’s ceremony, the 20th, took place in London. Full list of winners:
Best British Independent Film
“God’s Own Country”
Best Director
Rungano Nyoni “I Am Not a Witch”
Best Screenplay
Alice Birch “Lady Macbeth”
Best Actress
Florence Pugh “Lady Macbeth”
Best Actor
Josh O’Connor “God’s Own Country”
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Clarkson “The Party”
Best Supporting Actor
Simon Russell Beale...
- 12/10/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Carol Salter's Almost Heaven (2017) is playing October 9 - November 8, 2017 on Mubi in the United Kingdom.When making my films I start off with an emotion or a feeling, which transforms into an idea that mirrors the initial feeling. I was dealing with my own fear of death and coming to terms with the inevitable loss of my aging parents.The starting point was a short newspaper article about the work of young morticians in China, who perform special spa treatments on the deceased. These young people gave respect to the deceased by cleansing and washing away their ills and pains. I was intrigued as to how such young people, at the beginning of their life, could cope with working in such a place and so closely to death.I met with a number of young morticians while filming, but there was something about Ying Ling that drew me to...
- 10/16/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Carol Salter's Almost Heaven (2017) is playing October 9 - November 8, 2017 on Mubi in the United Kingdom.“The mosquitos are extra toxic here. Maybe they’ve bitten the dead bodies.”—Jin, Almost Heaven “I washed away your illness and pain. I wish you a good journey.”—Ying, Almost Heaven It was by coincidence that I saw Almost Heaven and the new Blade Runner days apart. They’re worlds apart, to be clear. Denis Villeneuve’s $150 million-plus sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 Philip K. Dick adaptation is a big, bold film whose sense of melancholy and intimacy is embedded into its massive scale and haunting imagery—imagery which has, as a welcome refresher on what an audiovisual art form is meant to do, continued to move me a week later. Carol Salter’s documentary, about trainee undertakers in China, clocks in...
- 10/11/2017
- MUBI
Almost Heaven begins with a view of the empty, underground corridors of a funeral home; then two bored morticians are shown fiddling with their phones; and, finally, a hydraulic lift descends slowly into view with a cadaver on it. But British documentary director Carol Salter's debut feature is not as morbid and despairing as its opening scenes suggest.
The film is definitely not a modern-day Chinese equivalent of Jessica Mitford's An American Way of Death: here, the undertakers are shown to be thoroughly respectful professionals, as they prepare for and then preside over simple and genuinely heartrending rituals designed to...
The film is definitely not a modern-day Chinese equivalent of Jessica Mitford's An American Way of Death: here, the undertakers are shown to be thoroughly respectful professionals, as they prepare for and then preside over simple and genuinely heartrending rituals designed to...
- 2/20/2017
- by Clarence Tsui
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Three UK features among first 15 films selected for Berlin’s Generations programme.Scroll down for list
The 2017 Berlin Film Festival has revealed the first raft of titles selected for its Generations sidebar, which features youth and children’s films.
Michael Winterbottom’s music documentary On The Road [pictured], which follows the band Wolf Alice on tour, will open the Generation 14plus programme this year.
Also playing in that strand will be Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea, which features the voices of Jason Schwartzman, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham and Susan Sarandon.
Further UK features playing in 14plus include the world premieres of Carol Salter’s Almost Heaven and Rafael Kapelinski’s Butterfly Kiss.
Titles selected for the separate GenerationKplus strand include the European premiere of Kriv Stenders’s Australian family feature Red Dog: True Blue.
The 2017 Berlin Film Festival takes place February 9-19.
Selected titles
Synopses provided by Berlinale press office.
Generation14plus
On The Road...
The 2017 Berlin Film Festival has revealed the first raft of titles selected for its Generations sidebar, which features youth and children’s films.
Michael Winterbottom’s music documentary On The Road [pictured], which follows the band Wolf Alice on tour, will open the Generation 14plus programme this year.
Also playing in that strand will be Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea, which features the voices of Jason Schwartzman, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham and Susan Sarandon.
Further UK features playing in 14plus include the world premieres of Carol Salter’s Almost Heaven and Rafael Kapelinski’s Butterfly Kiss.
Titles selected for the separate GenerationKplus strand include the European premiere of Kriv Stenders’s Australian family feature Red Dog: True Blue.
The 2017 Berlin Film Festival takes place February 9-19.
Selected titles
Synopses provided by Berlinale press office.
Generation14plus
On The Road...
- 12/23/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Sally Potter's The PartyThe titles for the 67th Berlin International Film Festival are being announced in anticipation of the event running February 9 - 19, 2017. We will update the program as new films are revealed.COMPETITIONOn Body and Soul (Ildiko Enyedi, Hungary)Ana, mon amour (Călin Peter Netzer, Romania / Germany France)Beuys (Andres Veiel, Germany)Colo (Teresa Villaverde, Portugal / France)The Dinner (Oren Moverman, USA)Félicité (Alain Gomis, France / Senegal / Belgium / Germany / Lebanon)The Party (Sally Potter, UK)Spoor (Agnieszka Holland, Poland / Germany/ Czech Republic / Sweden / Slovak Republic)The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland)A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio, Chile / German / USA / Spain)Berlinale SPECIALThe Queen of Spain (Fernando Trueba, Spain)The Young Karl Marx (Raoul Peck, France / Germany / Belgium)Last Days in Havana (Fernando Pérez, Cuba / Spain)PANORAMAVazante (Daniela Thomas, Brazil/Portugal)I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, France/USA/Belgium/Switzerland)The Wound (John Trengove, South Africa/Germany/Netherlands/France)Politics,...
- 12/22/2016
- MUBI
Michael Winterbottom's music documentary On the Road, a tour film about London band Wolf Alice, and Dash Shaw's animated film My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, which features the voice of Lena Dunham, are among the titles that will screen in the Generations section of the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
Organizers on Thursday unveiled the first 15 titles in next year's Generation lineup, which features films for children or a youth audience.
Films that will have their world premiere in the Generations lineup include Carol Salter's Almost Heaven, a documentary set at one of China's largest funeral...
Organizers on Thursday unveiled the first 15 titles in next year's Generation lineup, which features films for children or a youth audience.
Films that will have their world premiere in the Generations lineup include Carol Salter's Almost Heaven, a documentary set at one of China's largest funeral...
- 12/22/2016
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 8th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is all set to run for ten days this Feb. 11-20 in Missoula, Montana. This year, the fest will have a whopping 140 film programs, a growth that necessitates an expansion from its regular home at the Historic Wilma Theatre — where it will occupy two screens — to also feature screenings at the former Pipestone Mountaineering store.
Special events at the fest include a free opening night screening of How to Die in Oregon sponsored by HBO Documentary Films. The film, directed by Peter D. Richardson, examines the impact the legalization of physician-assisted suicide has had on the state. (In 1994, Oregon was the first state to legalize the practice.)
Also, indie rock band Yo La Tengo will perform their acclaimed live score of the films of pioneering French underwater documentary film director Jean Painlevé, something they have done for other film festivals all over the world.
Special events at the fest include a free opening night screening of How to Die in Oregon sponsored by HBO Documentary Films. The film, directed by Peter D. Richardson, examines the impact the legalization of physician-assisted suicide has had on the state. (In 1994, Oregon was the first state to legalize the practice.)
Also, indie rock band Yo La Tengo will perform their acclaimed live score of the films of pioneering French underwater documentary film director Jean Painlevé, something they have done for other film festivals all over the world.
- 1/15/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
On this week's podcast we celebrate the best of brief-but-beautiful cinema at London's Rushes Soho Shorts film festival.
We talk to the writer/director Deborah Haywood, whose film, Sis, takes a courageously comic look at society's fear of paedophiles through the eyes of two young girls. Deborah talks about making the film in her native Derbyshire and how important the doomed UK Film Council was in the realisation of her project.
Carol Salter's film Unearthing The Pen took the best documentary prize at the festival. Carol talks about traveling to northern Uganda to make her short, a remarkable look at the life of Locheng, a young boy whose dream to learn to read and write is thwarted by a curse his elders put upon the written word 40 years ago.
Remi Weekes is a young London director whose film Exhale has a particularly sparse and distinct cinematic style. Exhale is...
We talk to the writer/director Deborah Haywood, whose film, Sis, takes a courageously comic look at society's fear of paedophiles through the eyes of two young girls. Deborah talks about making the film in her native Derbyshire and how important the doomed UK Film Council was in the realisation of her project.
Carol Salter's film Unearthing The Pen took the best documentary prize at the festival. Carol talks about traveling to northern Uganda to make her short, a remarkable look at the life of Locheng, a young boy whose dream to learn to read and write is thwarted by a curse his elders put upon the written word 40 years ago.
Remi Weekes is a young London director whose film Exhale has a particularly sparse and distinct cinematic style. Exhale is...
- 8/5/2010
- by Henry Barnes, Jason Phipps
- The Guardian - Film News
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