Frankie Corio becomes youngest-ever Bafta Scotland nominee.
Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun leads the nominations for the Bafta Scotland Awards 2023, recognised in five categories: actor film, actress film, director fiction, feature film and writer film/television.
The UK-us co-production has acting nominations for Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio, with Corio becoming the youngest-ever nominee at Bafta Scotland.
Scroll down for the full list of nominations
Wells receives the other three nominations, with producers Mark Ceryak, Amy Jackson, Barry Jenkins and Adele Romanski nominated alongside her for feature film.
Aftersun previously received four nominations at the Bafta Film Awards earlier this year, winning...
Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun leads the nominations for the Bafta Scotland Awards 2023, recognised in five categories: actor film, actress film, director fiction, feature film and writer film/television.
The UK-us co-production has acting nominations for Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio, with Corio becoming the youngest-ever nominee at Bafta Scotland.
Scroll down for the full list of nominations
Wells receives the other three nominations, with producers Mark Ceryak, Amy Jackson, Barry Jenkins and Adele Romanski nominated alongside her for feature film.
Aftersun previously received four nominations at the Bafta Film Awards earlier this year, winning...
- 10/11/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Projects include ‘Orange World’, the latest from ’Sunlight’ filmmaker Claire Dix.
Katie Holly’s Irish production company Blinder Films, the outfit behind Extra Ordinary, Mr Malcolm’s List, Love And Friendship and Dublin premiere Sunlight, has re-launched as Keeper Pictures, with an expanded team and a bustling slate of development projects.
Long-standing Keeper Pictures producer Yvonne Donohoe has been promoted to a newly created role, head of creative. Evan Horan, who was associate producer on Mr Malcolm’s List, has been promoted to producer. Amy Carroll has joined as development executive, previously working at South of the River and Kudos,...
Katie Holly’s Irish production company Blinder Films, the outfit behind Extra Ordinary, Mr Malcolm’s List, Love And Friendship and Dublin premiere Sunlight, has re-launched as Keeper Pictures, with an expanded team and a bustling slate of development projects.
Long-standing Keeper Pictures producer Yvonne Donohoe has been promoted to a newly created role, head of creative. Evan Horan, who was associate producer on Mr Malcolm’s List, has been promoted to producer. Amy Carroll has joined as development executive, previously working at South of the River and Kudos,...
- 4/5/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Jury members include ‘Animals’ producer Sarah Brocklehurst.
Wild Rose director Tom Harper and Animals producer Sarah Brocklehurst are among the jurors of this year’s British Independent Film Awards (BIFA).
Brocklehurst will preside over the main jury that includes The Last Tree actor Samuel Adewunmi; Daphne and Rialto director Peter Mackie Burns; writer and actor Mark O’Halloran; Blue Story producer Joy Gharoro Akpojotor; Only You filmmaker Harry Wootliff; writer-director Reggie Yates; Anthony Andrews, co-founder of exhibitor We Are Parable; and broadcaster Yinka Bokinni
The new talent jury will be chaired by film critic Amon Warmann and includes Harper, whose Wild Rose...
Wild Rose director Tom Harper and Animals producer Sarah Brocklehurst are among the jurors of this year’s British Independent Film Awards (BIFA).
Brocklehurst will preside over the main jury that includes The Last Tree actor Samuel Adewunmi; Daphne and Rialto director Peter Mackie Burns; writer and actor Mark O’Halloran; Blue Story producer Joy Gharoro Akpojotor; Only You filmmaker Harry Wootliff; writer-director Reggie Yates; Anthony Andrews, co-founder of exhibitor We Are Parable; and broadcaster Yinka Bokinni
The new talent jury will be chaired by film critic Amon Warmann and includes Harper, whose Wild Rose...
- 12/21/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
We were big fans of Peter Mackie Burns’ preceding feature Daphne, and so were naturally excited to see his follow-up in Rialto, and we were not disappointed, as an intense drama that brings out two fantastic performances from lead actors Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Tom Glynn-Carney. To celebrate the film’s release we spoke to the director himself, and Glynn-Carney, via Zoom.
The pair discuss working with the the other Tom, and Burns goes on to talk about his happiness for Emily Beecham, who played the title role in his previous film, after her success at Cannes last year. The director also tells us what attracts him to character studies of this nature, while Glynn-Carney talks about his method getting into the character’s head, and also comments on his experience shooting with Christopher Nolan when the pair collaborated on Dunkirk.
Watch the full interview with both Peter Mackie Burns and Tom Glynn-Carney here:
Synopsis
Colm,...
The pair discuss working with the the other Tom, and Burns goes on to talk about his happiness for Emily Beecham, who played the title role in his previous film, after her success at Cannes last year. The director also tells us what attracts him to character studies of this nature, while Glynn-Carney talks about his method getting into the character’s head, and also comments on his experience shooting with Christopher Nolan when the pair collaborated on Dunkirk.
Watch the full interview with both Peter Mackie Burns and Tom Glynn-Carney here:
Synopsis
Colm,...
- 10/1/2020
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor excels in this bleak Dublin-set drama about a closeted gay man whose life is unravelling
Peter Mackie Burns’s painful, unhappy drama packs a hard punch; you must steel yourself for the emotional blows. Tom Vaughan-Lawlor is excellent as 46-year-old Colm, a Dublin man who looks like a working-class success: nice house, office job at a dockyard, lovely wife and teenage kids. But Colm is secretly gay, and living with the shame for so long has scraped his insides out. There’s nothing left of him: he is drinking heavily, barely functioning, pushing away his concerned wife Claire.
Peter Mackie Burns’s painful, unhappy drama packs a hard punch; you must steel yourself for the emotional blows. Tom Vaughan-Lawlor is excellent as 46-year-old Colm, a Dublin man who looks like a working-class success: nice house, office job at a dockyard, lovely wife and teenage kids. But Colm is secretly gay, and living with the shame for so long has scraped his insides out. There’s nothing left of him: he is drinking heavily, barely functioning, pushing away his concerned wife Claire.
- 9/30/2020
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
In today’s film news roundup, Liev Schreiber and retired pro footballer Vernon Davis score roles, Jason Blum will speak at his alma mater, Irish drama “Rialto” finds a U.S. distributor and “1917” hits a box office milestone.
Castings
Liev Schreiber will portray tennis coach Paul Cohen in Warner Bros.’ “King Richard” opposite Will Smith.
Reinaldo Marcus Green is directing the drama, written by Zach Baylin, about Richard Williams helping daughters Venus and Serena Williams to become tennis stars. Smith plays Richard Williams and his daughters will be portrayed by Saniyya Sidney as Venus and Demi Singleton as Serena. Cohen also worked with Pete Sampras and John McEnroe.
Jon Bernthal and Aunjanue Ellis also star in “King Richard,” produced by Smith via his Westbrook Studios banner along with Tim White and Trevor White through Starthrower Entertainment. Warner Bros. has set the film for a Nov. 25 release.
Schreiber recently completed...
Castings
Liev Schreiber will portray tennis coach Paul Cohen in Warner Bros.’ “King Richard” opposite Will Smith.
Reinaldo Marcus Green is directing the drama, written by Zach Baylin, about Richard Williams helping daughters Venus and Serena Williams to become tennis stars. Smith plays Richard Williams and his daughters will be portrayed by Saniyya Sidney as Venus and Demi Singleton as Serena. Cohen also worked with Pete Sampras and John McEnroe.
Jon Bernthal and Aunjanue Ellis also star in “King Richard,” produced by Smith via his Westbrook Studios banner along with Tim White and Trevor White through Starthrower Entertainment. Warner Bros. has set the film for a Nov. 25 release.
Schreiber recently completed...
- 2/28/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Goteborg Film Festival, the biggest showcase of local and international movies in the Nordics, will kick off its 43rd edition with Maria Bäck’s “”Psychosis,” and will close with actor-turned-director Mårten Klingberg’s “My Father Mary Anne.”
Both timely Swedish dramas dealing with trauma post-sexual abuse, and the experience of a transgender priest, respectively, “Psychosis” and “My Father Mary Anne” will have their world premiere at Goteborg.
Stellan Skarsgård, who just won a Golden Globe for his performance in the hit HBO series “Tchernobyl,” will receive the prestigious Nordic Honorary Dragon Award and will be honored with a retrospective of some of the greatest films of his career. As part of the tribute, the estival will also host the Nordic premiere of “The Painted Bird” which was recently shortlisted for the international feature film category at the Oscars. During the festival, Skarsgård will also having a masterclass.
In addition to opening the festival,...
Both timely Swedish dramas dealing with trauma post-sexual abuse, and the experience of a transgender priest, respectively, “Psychosis” and “My Father Mary Anne” will have their world premiere at Goteborg.
Stellan Skarsgård, who just won a Golden Globe for his performance in the hit HBO series “Tchernobyl,” will receive the prestigious Nordic Honorary Dragon Award and will be honored with a retrospective of some of the greatest films of his career. As part of the tribute, the estival will also host the Nordic premiere of “The Painted Bird” which was recently shortlisted for the international feature film category at the Oscars. During the festival, Skarsgård will also having a masterclass.
In addition to opening the festival,...
- 1/7/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Protagonist Pictures handles international sales on psychological horror from first-time director.
Rose Glass, whose psychological horror feature debut Saint Maud earned an enthusiastic critical reception at its world premiere in Toronto, has won the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with BFI.
Glass collected the prize at Tuesday night’s (October 1) BFI Luminous, the biennial fundraising gala at Roundhouse presented by Iwc Schaffhausen and BFI. The Nfts graduate and 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow was one of three nominees whose first or second film is screening at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. The other two filmmakers are Hong Khaou...
Rose Glass, whose psychological horror feature debut Saint Maud earned an enthusiastic critical reception at its world premiere in Toronto, has won the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with BFI.
Glass collected the prize at Tuesday night’s (October 1) BFI Luminous, the biennial fundraising gala at Roundhouse presented by Iwc Schaffhausen and BFI. The Nfts graduate and 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow was one of three nominees whose first or second film is screening at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. The other two filmmakers are Hong Khaou...
- 10/2/2019
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Protagonist Pictures handles international sales on psychological horror from first-time director.
Rose Glass, whose psychological horror feature debut Saint Maud earned an enthusiastic critical reception at its world premiere in Toronto, has won the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with BFI.
Glass collected the prize at Tuesday night’s (October 1) BFI Luminous, the biennial fundraising gala at Roundhouse presented by Iwc Schaffhausen and BFI. The Nfts graduate and 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow was one of three nominees whose first or second film is screening at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. The other two filmmakers are Hong Khaou...
Rose Glass, whose psychological horror feature debut Saint Maud earned an enthusiastic critical reception at its world premiere in Toronto, has won the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with BFI.
Glass collected the prize at Tuesday night’s (October 1) BFI Luminous, the biennial fundraising gala at Roundhouse presented by Iwc Schaffhausen and BFI. The Nfts graduate and 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow was one of three nominees whose first or second film is screening at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. The other two filmmakers are Hong Khaou...
- 10/1/2019
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
In “Rialto,” the sensitive if constrained sophomore feature from Peter Mackie Burns (“Daphne”), diffident Dubliner Colm (Tom Vaughn-Lawlor) apologizes a lot. When he bumps into someone. When someone bumps into him. When he answers the phone or forgets a household task or mishears his wife. All those little excuses are partly the accurate observation of an authentically Irish verbal tic, as detailed in Mark O’Halloran’s cleverly colloquial screenplay, based on his own stage play. But there is also the sense that Colm’s frequent exhalations of apology are flak cannon fire, sent up into the ether to disguise and distract from an enormous, deeply repressed guilt that there’s no “sorry” large enough to cover. “Rialto” pivots claustrophobically around a crisis moment that drives Colm to act on the very desires he has perhaps been apologizing for all along.
It is a comfortably-off family man, working in a...
It is a comfortably-off family man, working in a...
- 9/27/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Not even three weeks after losing his domineering father, a married Dubliner with two kids also loses his job. This story of real-life misery could play out in many different ways, but few would go in the specific direction of Peter Mackie Burns' Rialto, or would tell the story quite as delicately. The protagonist, who grew up in the eponymous Dublin neighborhood, fills the void caused by these unforeseen losses with a desire to explore his repressed sexual proclivities.
The feature is based on the play Trade, from Irish playwright and screenwriter Mark O'Halloran, which won the 2011 ...
The feature is based on the play Trade, from Irish playwright and screenwriter Mark O'Halloran, which won the 2011 ...
Not even three weeks after losing his domineering father, a married Dubliner with two kids also loses his job. This story of real-life misery could play out in many different ways, but few would go in the specific direction of Peter Mackie Burns' Rialto, or would tell the story quite as delicately. The protagonist, who grew up in the eponymous Dublin neighborhood, fills the void caused by these unforeseen losses with a desire to explore his repressed sexual proclivities.
The feature is based on the play Trade, from Irish playwright and screenwriter Mark O'Halloran, which won the 2011 ...
The feature is based on the play Trade, from Irish playwright and screenwriter Mark O'Halloran, which won the 2011 ...
Cowtown’s debut completed film is Peter Mackie Burns’ Rialto, which premiered at Venice’s Horizons.
New projects directed by Rebecca Daly and Malgorzata Szumwoska head the development slate of Alan Maher and John Wallace’s Dublin-based Cowtown Pictures.
Daly will direct A High Place, a drama about a family in upstate New York for which Cowtown is looking for Us partners, while Szumwoska’s A Kind Of Longing has secured backing from Screen Ireland. It is a co-production with Mariusz Wlodarski from Poland’s Lava Films.
Additionally Bankside has acquired sales rights to Cowtown’s L.O.L.A,...
New projects directed by Rebecca Daly and Malgorzata Szumwoska head the development slate of Alan Maher and John Wallace’s Dublin-based Cowtown Pictures.
Daly will direct A High Place, a drama about a family in upstate New York for which Cowtown is looking for Us partners, while Szumwoska’s A Kind Of Longing has secured backing from Screen Ireland. It is a co-production with Mariusz Wlodarski from Poland’s Lava Films.
Additionally Bankside has acquired sales rights to Cowtown’s L.O.L.A,...
- 9/9/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The film follows award-winning French nature photographer and explorer Vincent Munier.
The Bureau Sales has acquired international rights to documentary The Velvet Queen following award-winning French nature photographer and explorer Vincent Munier as he attempts to track down the elusive snow leopard in Asia.
Paris-based Paprika Films is producing with Munier’s publishing and production house Kobalann in co-production with Le Bureau – the French production arm of Bertrand Faivre’s Paris and London-based film company. Haut et Court has pre-bought French rights.
French-Swiss biologist and filmmaker Marie Amiguet, whose credits include The Valley Of The Wolves, has signed to direct.
The Bureau Sales has acquired international rights to documentary The Velvet Queen following award-winning French nature photographer and explorer Vincent Munier as he attempts to track down the elusive snow leopard in Asia.
Paris-based Paprika Films is producing with Munier’s publishing and production house Kobalann in co-production with Le Bureau – the French production arm of Bertrand Faivre’s Paris and London-based film company. Haut et Court has pre-bought French rights.
French-Swiss biologist and filmmaker Marie Amiguet, whose credits include The Valley Of The Wolves, has signed to direct.
- 9/6/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Danny Boyle will lead the judging panel for the prize.
The BFI has selected the three filmmakers on the shortlist for its Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which gives a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
The chosen three this year are Rose Glass, writer-director of Saint Maud; Hong Khaou, writer-director of Monsoon; and Peter Mackie Burns, director of Rialto.
All three are previous Screen Stars of Tomorrow: Burns in 2005, Khaou in 2013, and Glass in 2018.
The winner will be chosen by a panel headed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle,...
The BFI has selected the three filmmakers on the shortlist for its Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which gives a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
The chosen three this year are Rose Glass, writer-director of Saint Maud; Hong Khaou, writer-director of Monsoon; and Peter Mackie Burns, director of Rialto.
All three are previous Screen Stars of Tomorrow: Burns in 2005, Khaou in 2013, and Glass in 2018.
The winner will be chosen by a panel headed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle,...
- 9/5/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The British Film Institute and luxury watch-maker Iwc Schaffhausen have revealed the three filmmakers shortlisted for the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with the BFI.
The 2019 shortlist comprises Rose Glass, writer-director of her debut feature Saint Maud, Hong Khaou, writer-director of his second feature Monsoon and Peter Mackie Burns, director of his second feature Rialto.
At £50,000, the prize is the most significant bursary of its kind in the UK, expressly designed to support the future careers of promising new talent. The award goes to a UK-based writer, director or writer-director with a first or second feature screening at the London Film Festival.
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) will join Amanda Nevill, CEO of the BFI, and Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of Iwc Schaffhausen, to both select the winner and present the award during the festival.
The shortlist selection panel comprised Rose Garnett, Director of BBC Films, Ollie Madden, Head of Creative at Film4,...
The 2019 shortlist comprises Rose Glass, writer-director of her debut feature Saint Maud, Hong Khaou, writer-director of his second feature Monsoon and Peter Mackie Burns, director of his second feature Rialto.
At £50,000, the prize is the most significant bursary of its kind in the UK, expressly designed to support the future careers of promising new talent. The award goes to a UK-based writer, director or writer-director with a first or second feature screening at the London Film Festival.
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) will join Amanda Nevill, CEO of the BFI, and Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of Iwc Schaffhausen, to both select the winner and present the award during the festival.
The shortlist selection panel comprised Rose Garnett, Director of BBC Films, Ollie Madden, Head of Creative at Film4,...
- 9/5/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The lineup has been unveiled for year’s edition of the Venice International Film Festival, taking place August 28 through September 7. Aside from films previously announced as coming to Tiff, some major new announcements include Olivier Assayas’ Wasp Network, James Gray’s Ad Astra, Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness, Ciro Guerra’s Waiting for the Barbarians, David Michôd’s The King, Benedict Andrews’ Kristen Stewart-led biopic Seberg, and Roman Polanski’s J’accuse. Only two films by female directors made into the competition lineup: Haifaa Al-Mansour’s The Perfect Candidate and Shannon Murphy’s Babyteeth.
Check out the lineup below (hat tip to Mubi), which also includes other sections at the festival.
Competition
The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
The Perfect Candidate (Haifaa Al-Mansour)
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson)
Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
Guest of Honour (Atom Egoyan)
Ad Astra (James Gray)
A Herdade (Tiago Guedes)
Gloria Mundi (Robert Guédiguian...
Check out the lineup below (hat tip to Mubi), which also includes other sections at the festival.
Competition
The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
The Perfect Candidate (Haifaa Al-Mansour)
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson)
Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
Guest of Honour (Atom Egoyan)
Ad Astra (James Gray)
A Herdade (Tiago Guedes)
Gloria Mundi (Robert Guédiguian...
- 7/25/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Film project is an adaptation of Max Porter’s new novel.
Rachel Weisz is teaming with UK production outfit The Bureau and BBC Films on an adaptation of Max Porter’s just-published novel Lanny.
Fresh from her Bafta win and Oscar nomination for her performance in The Favourite, Weisz will both star in the film and produce alongside The Bureau’s Tristan Goligher.
The book, which has been sold into 20 territories, has received strong reviews ahead of its publication via Faber & Faber in the UK today (March 7).
Lanny is a contemporary drama heavily influenced by English folk stories and...
Rachel Weisz is teaming with UK production outfit The Bureau and BBC Films on an adaptation of Max Porter’s just-published novel Lanny.
Fresh from her Bafta win and Oscar nomination for her performance in The Favourite, Weisz will both star in the film and produce alongside The Bureau’s Tristan Goligher.
The book, which has been sold into 20 territories, has received strong reviews ahead of its publication via Faber & Faber in the UK today (March 7).
Lanny is a contemporary drama heavily influenced by English folk stories and...
- 3/7/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Hugot replaces the outgoing Rym Hachimi.
Clementine Hugot has been appointed as head of sales at The Bureau Sales, the sales arm of Paris and London-based production outfit The Bureau, handling all of its productions.
She replaces Rym Hachimi, who is leaving after 10 years at the company to forge a career in production. Both Hugot and Hachimi will attend the Efm.
Hugot has worked at a wide variety of sales companies, beginning her career at Wide Management, before moving to Bac Films, and then most recently Indie Sales. She was named as one of Screen International’s Future Leaders for...
Clementine Hugot has been appointed as head of sales at The Bureau Sales, the sales arm of Paris and London-based production outfit The Bureau, handling all of its productions.
She replaces Rym Hachimi, who is leaving after 10 years at the company to forge a career in production. Both Hugot and Hachimi will attend the Efm.
Hugot has worked at a wide variety of sales companies, beginning her career at Wide Management, before moving to Bac Films, and then most recently Indie Sales. She was named as one of Screen International’s Future Leaders for...
- 2/6/2019
- ScreenDaily
The Bureau Sales has appointed Clementine Hugot as Head Of Sales. Hugot will head the sales arm of production outfit The Bureau. She steps into the role previously held by Rym Hachimi, who is departing the company after ten years in the role.
Both Hugot and Hachimi will attend Efm on behalf of the company. Hugot has previously worked at Wide Management, Bac Films, and most recently Indie Sales.
Bertrand Faivre of The Bureau said, “Rym Hachimi has been pivotal in growing The Bureau Sales. She has been a fantastic member of the team and the whole company will be sad to see her leave. We wish her the very best on her next adventure. At the same time we are excited for Clementine to join us, bringing her own ideas, and leading the company as we continue to grow.”
Hugot added, “I am nothing more than excited to board...
Both Hugot and Hachimi will attend Efm on behalf of the company. Hugot has previously worked at Wide Management, Bac Films, and most recently Indie Sales.
Bertrand Faivre of The Bureau said, “Rym Hachimi has been pivotal in growing The Bureau Sales. She has been a fantastic member of the team and the whole company will be sad to see her leave. We wish her the very best on her next adventure. At the same time we are excited for Clementine to join us, bringing her own ideas, and leading the company as we continue to grow.”
Hugot added, “I am nothing more than excited to board...
- 2/6/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The film stars Mark Stanley, Emily Beecham, Dougray Scott and Anna Friel.
Altitude Film Sales has taken international rights to Julian Jarrold’s Sulphur And White, starring Mark Stanley, Emily Beecham, Dougray Scott and Anna Friel.
The film is based on the true story of City trader and mountaineer David Tait, a man whose professional success masks a series of traumatic secrets.
Mike Elliott of London and Manchester-based Emu Films has produced the film with Alan Govinden of Amg International Films. It is written by Susie Farrell, whose credits include Sacha Polak’s Dirty God, also for Emu. Sulphur And White...
Altitude Film Sales has taken international rights to Julian Jarrold’s Sulphur And White, starring Mark Stanley, Emily Beecham, Dougray Scott and Anna Friel.
The film is based on the true story of City trader and mountaineer David Tait, a man whose professional success masks a series of traumatic secrets.
Mike Elliott of London and Manchester-based Emu Films has produced the film with Alan Govinden of Amg International Films. It is written by Susie Farrell, whose credits include Sacha Polak’s Dirty God, also for Emu. Sulphur And White...
- 10/18/2018
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
Nora Twomey’s animated TV series also supported.
New projects from filmmakers Kirsten Sheridan, Ian Fitzgibbon and Mark O’Halloran are among those being backed by the Irish Film Board in its latest round of funding decisions.
A forthcoming animated TV series co-helmed by Irish Oscar nominee Nora Twomey is also being supported by the national film body, as is a new documentary featuring singer Pj Harvey.
Twomey, nominated for an Oscar this year for her film The Breadwinner, will co-direct Dorg Van Dango with Fabian Erlinghauser. The series, from a script by Nick Murphy, was awarded €250,000.
Ian Fitzgibbon’s...
New projects from filmmakers Kirsten Sheridan, Ian Fitzgibbon and Mark O’Halloran are among those being backed by the Irish Film Board in its latest round of funding decisions.
A forthcoming animated TV series co-helmed by Irish Oscar nominee Nora Twomey is also being supported by the national film body, as is a new documentary featuring singer Pj Harvey.
Twomey, nominated for an Oscar this year for her film The Breadwinner, will co-direct Dorg Van Dango with Fabian Erlinghauser. The series, from a script by Nick Murphy, was awarded €250,000.
Ian Fitzgibbon’s...
- 4/16/2018
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
The success of playfully impudent shows such as Girls and Fleabag continues to prove that the modern mid-twenties (and beyond) woman is still feeling a bit lost and even a bit p*ssed off. Much like Fleabag, Peter Mackie Burns’ cinematic offering Daphne drops straight into the heart of a frustrated London-based singleton, who attempts to navigate her career, sex and relationships against a bleak city backdrop.
Emily Beecham’s portrayal of the well-educated, abrasive and sexually/emotionally-detached Daphne is inarguably the core characteristic of the film around which everything else oscillates. Thankfully, she does a wholly convincing execution – delivering Daphne’s blunt lines as if a lack of patience and manners is part of her very being. By contrast, Geraldine James expertly plays the contrasting role of Daphne’s mother, battling cancer and newly interested in Buddhism and spirituality.
The contrast between Daphne’s rude rebukes and her mother...
Emily Beecham’s portrayal of the well-educated, abrasive and sexually/emotionally-detached Daphne is inarguably the core characteristic of the film around which everything else oscillates. Thankfully, she does a wholly convincing execution – delivering Daphne’s blunt lines as if a lack of patience and manners is part of her very being. By contrast, Geraldine James expertly plays the contrasting role of Daphne’s mother, battling cancer and newly interested in Buddhism and spirituality.
The contrast between Daphne’s rude rebukes and her mother...
- 1/22/2018
- by Olivia Haines
- The Cultural Post
A big-city thirtysomething, numbed by her endless pursuit of pleasure, finds her life turned around when she witnesses a violent crime
Fortunately or otherwise, this resembles something from TV, the award-winning 2016 comedy Fleabag written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, all about the unhappy, sexually adventurous and self-destructive woman in London: young, posh, white. In this film – written by Nico Mensinga and directed by Peter Mackie Burns, feature first-timers – it is Daphne, played with a potent and blank kind of restraint by Emily Beecham, who is on her own in the city; she has a demanding job as a chef in a busy restaurant, but Daphne is uninterested in that, her tiresome mother, or her clingy friends from uni. She’s more interested in sex with strangers, coke, alcohol and the pure delicious pleasure of not caring any more about other people or herself. It could be a pleasure that people...
Fortunately or otherwise, this resembles something from TV, the award-winning 2016 comedy Fleabag written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, all about the unhappy, sexually adventurous and self-destructive woman in London: young, posh, white. In this film – written by Nico Mensinga and directed by Peter Mackie Burns, feature first-timers – it is Daphne, played with a potent and blank kind of restraint by Emily Beecham, who is on her own in the city; she has a demanding job as a chef in a busy restaurant, but Daphne is uninterested in that, her tiresome mother, or her clingy friends from uni. She’s more interested in sex with strangers, coke, alcohol and the pure delicious pleasure of not caring any more about other people or herself. It could be a pleasure that people...
- 9/28/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The promiscuous heroine of the indie film Daphne upends on-screen conventions about women and sex. From Bond to Bridesmaids and beyond, are the movies finally coming to terms with female desire?
It is a radical act, which every film generation thinks they are the first to discover: to create characters who are not good people. When you drill into it, this always means creating men who are not good men, since the grey areas around women on screen – do they have any lines that aren’t variations on “help”? Do they have motivation independent of the hero’s? – mean that, even in a putatively intelligent film, it is often quite hard to ascribe a moral arc to them, as it would be to a horse, or a robot. So let’s leave aside “good” – it is vanishingly rare, and pretty bracing, to see a woman on screen who isn’t the villain,...
It is a radical act, which every film generation thinks they are the first to discover: to create characters who are not good people. When you drill into it, this always means creating men who are not good men, since the grey areas around women on screen – do they have any lines that aren’t variations on “help”? Do they have motivation independent of the hero’s? – mean that, even in a putatively intelligent film, it is often quite hard to ascribe a moral arc to them, as it would be to a horse, or a robot. So let’s leave aside “good” – it is vanishingly rare, and pretty bracing, to see a woman on screen who isn’t the villain,...
- 9/22/2017
- by Zoe Williams
- The Guardian - Film News
Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Justin Chon's Korean American drama Gook and Pororoca, the latest from Romanian auteur Constantin Popescu (Tales from the Golden Age) are among the titles selected for competition at this year's Zurich International Film Festival.
The Zurich line-up, announced Wednesday, is a compelling mix of U.S. and international arthouse titles, with highlights including Peter Mackie Burns' Daphne starring Emily Beecham; Venice Film Festival entry Under The Tree from Icelandic helmer Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson and Weightless, the feature debut of music video director Jaron Albertin, which stars Marc Menchaca, Julianna Nicholson and Johnny Knoxville.
In...
The Zurich line-up, announced Wednesday, is a compelling mix of U.S. and international arthouse titles, with highlights including Peter Mackie Burns' Daphne starring Emily Beecham; Venice Film Festival entry Under The Tree from Icelandic helmer Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson and Weightless, the feature debut of music video director Jaron Albertin, which stars Marc Menchaca, Julianna Nicholson and Johnny Knoxville.
In...
- 9/14/2017
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
'Top of the Lake: China Girl' will make its Australian debut at Miff.
The Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) has unveiled the first 30 films on its line-up ahead of the full program launch in July..
Among the highlights at this year.s festival, to be held August 3-20, is actually a television series: the Australian premiere of Jane Campion.s series Top of the Lake: China Girl, fresh from Cannes..
All six episodes of the show, starring Elisabeth Moss and Nicole Kidman, will play in three concurrent two-hour sessions, before the show goes on to air on Foxtel.s BBC First.
Another Aussie highlight will be documentary The Silent Eye, from director Amiel Courtin-Wilson (Hail, Ruin), which follows free jazz pioneer Cecil Taylor and modern dance artist Min Tanaka..
Many of the Aussie films that are screening at Sydney Film Festival will also head south for Miff, including a double bill froom Kriv Stenders,...
The Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) has unveiled the first 30 films on its line-up ahead of the full program launch in July..
Among the highlights at this year.s festival, to be held August 3-20, is actually a television series: the Australian premiere of Jane Campion.s series Top of the Lake: China Girl, fresh from Cannes..
All six episodes of the show, starring Elisabeth Moss and Nicole Kidman, will play in three concurrent two-hour sessions, before the show goes on to air on Foxtel.s BBC First.
Another Aussie highlight will be documentary The Silent Eye, from director Amiel Courtin-Wilson (Hail, Ruin), which follows free jazz pioneer Cecil Taylor and modern dance artist Min Tanaka..
Many of the Aussie films that are screening at Sydney Film Festival will also head south for Miff, including a double bill froom Kriv Stenders,...
- 6/6/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Highlights include the UK premiere of Cars 3 and 17 world premieres.Scroll Down For Competition Titles
The line-up for the 71st Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been unveiled this morning by artistic director Mark Adams.
This year’s Eiff (June 21-2 July) will comprise a total 151 features from 46 countries including 17 world premieres, 12 international premieres, 9 European premieres and 69 UK premieres.
Highlights include the UK Premiere of Disney-Pixar’s animation Cars 3, appearances from Stanley Tucci, Oliver Stone and Kevin Bacon and the Opening and Closing Gala premieres of the previously announced God’s Own Country and England Is Mine.
There will also be a special screening of Raiders Of The Lost Ark accompanied by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra performing the score live.
Best of British
The Best of British strand includes Bryn Higgins’ Access All Areas featuring Rizzle Kicks’ Jordan Stephens; Simon Hunter’s Edie starring Sheila Hancock; the Donmar Warehouse’s all-female adaptation of [link...
The line-up for the 71st Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been unveiled this morning by artistic director Mark Adams.
This year’s Eiff (June 21-2 July) will comprise a total 151 features from 46 countries including 17 world premieres, 12 international premieres, 9 European premieres and 69 UK premieres.
Highlights include the UK Premiere of Disney-Pixar’s animation Cars 3, appearances from Stanley Tucci, Oliver Stone and Kevin Bacon and the Opening and Closing Gala premieres of the previously announced God’s Own Country and England Is Mine.
There will also be a special screening of Raiders Of The Lost Ark accompanied by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra performing the score live.
Best of British
The Best of British strand includes Bryn Higgins’ Access All Areas featuring Rizzle Kicks’ Jordan Stephens; Simon Hunter’s Edie starring Sheila Hancock; the Donmar Warehouse’s all-female adaptation of [link...
- 5/31/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Movies with a Scottish flavour include Daphne, The Last Photograph, The Marker, while Okja will also screen.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has revealed a host of movies with Scottish connections set to play at its 70th anniversary edition.
Scottish director Peter Mackie Burns will bring his debut Daphne, which stars Emily Beecham (Hail Caesar) and Geraldine James (Sherlock Holmes), while Scottish actress Freya Mavor (Sunshine On Leith) stars in the world premiere of comedy-drama Modern Life Is Rubbish.
Filmmaker Justin Edgar also returns to the Eiff with The Marker, starring veteran Scottish actor John Hannah; while The Last Photograph, starring Danny Huston, revolves around the Lockerbie disaster.
Bong Joon Ho’s latest offering Okja, starring Eiff honorary patron Tilda Swinton, will also screen and there will also be showcases of local icons Sean Connery and Robbie Coltrane.
Titles filmed and set in Scotland will include Edie, starring Kevin Guthrie and psychological thriller The Dark Mile...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has revealed a host of movies with Scottish connections set to play at its 70th anniversary edition.
Scottish director Peter Mackie Burns will bring his debut Daphne, which stars Emily Beecham (Hail Caesar) and Geraldine James (Sherlock Holmes), while Scottish actress Freya Mavor (Sunshine On Leith) stars in the world premiere of comedy-drama Modern Life Is Rubbish.
Filmmaker Justin Edgar also returns to the Eiff with The Marker, starring veteran Scottish actor John Hannah; while The Last Photograph, starring Danny Huston, revolves around the Lockerbie disaster.
Bong Joon Ho’s latest offering Okja, starring Eiff honorary patron Tilda Swinton, will also screen and there will also be showcases of local icons Sean Connery and Robbie Coltrane.
Titles filmed and set in Scotland will include Edie, starring Kevin Guthrie and psychological thriller The Dark Mile...
- 5/23/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Bureau Sales inks deal for comedy-drama.
The Bureau Sales has closed an all-rights deal for North American with Gravitas Ventures for its Emily Beecham-starring comedy-drama Daphne.
Produced by The Bureau, international rights are handled by The Bureau Sales, which has already closed deals with Altitude for the UK, Cinemien for Benelux, Mag for France, Bilibilli for China, and most recently Vista India Digital Media for India.
The film stars Beecham as a quick-witted, thirty-something Londoner whose life takes a downward spiral after she witnesses a violent attack.
It marks the directing debut of Peter Mackie Burns, who won a Golden Bear in 2005 for his short film Milk.
The cast also includes Geraldine James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Nathaniel Martello-White.
The deal was negotiated by Josh Spector on behalf of Gravitas.
Spector commented: “Emily Beecham’s outstanding lead performance is undeniable and we are thrilled to be bringing Peter Mackie Burns’ powerful film to North American...
The Bureau Sales has closed an all-rights deal for North American with Gravitas Ventures for its Emily Beecham-starring comedy-drama Daphne.
Produced by The Bureau, international rights are handled by The Bureau Sales, which has already closed deals with Altitude for the UK, Cinemien for Benelux, Mag for France, Bilibilli for China, and most recently Vista India Digital Media for India.
The film stars Beecham as a quick-witted, thirty-something Londoner whose life takes a downward spiral after she witnesses a violent attack.
It marks the directing debut of Peter Mackie Burns, who won a Golden Bear in 2005 for his short film Milk.
The cast also includes Geraldine James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Nathaniel Martello-White.
The deal was negotiated by Josh Spector on behalf of Gravitas.
Spector commented: “Emily Beecham’s outstanding lead performance is undeniable and we are thrilled to be bringing Peter Mackie Burns’ powerful film to North American...
- 5/19/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
“Most Beautiful Island”
A short, stressful, and utterly spellbinding debut that transforms the immigrant experience into the stuff of an early Polanski psychodrama, “Most Beautiful Island” was a worthy winner of the SXSW Grand Jury Prize for best narrative feature, and might prove to be a breakthrough moment for a major new talent: Spanish actress Ana Asensio not only wrote, directed, and produced this fraught metropolitan thriller, she also appears in just about every frame.
It would be criminal to reveal too much about what happens to her character, a Manhattan immigrant who’s struggling to make a life for herself in the big city and in for the longest night of her life, but it’s thrilling to watch the anxiety of neo-realism as it slowly bleeds into something that resembles the suspense of the orgy sequence from “Eyes Wide Shut.” Creating a lucid sense of reality only so...
A short, stressful, and utterly spellbinding debut that transforms the immigrant experience into the stuff of an early Polanski psychodrama, “Most Beautiful Island” was a worthy winner of the SXSW Grand Jury Prize for best narrative feature, and might prove to be a breakthrough moment for a major new talent: Spanish actress Ana Asensio not only wrote, directed, and produced this fraught metropolitan thriller, she also appears in just about every frame.
It would be criminal to reveal too much about what happens to her character, a Manhattan immigrant who’s struggling to make a life for herself in the big city and in for the longest night of her life, but it’s thrilling to watch the anxiety of neo-realism as it slowly bleeds into something that resembles the suspense of the orgy sequence from “Eyes Wide Shut.” Creating a lucid sense of reality only so...
- 3/18/2017
- by Chris O'Falt, David Ehrlich, Eric Kohn, Kate Erbland and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
A raw fiction debut that feels like a romantic comedy with all of the bullshit taken out, Peter Mackie Burns’ “Daphne” is a remarkably real and well-realized big screen version of an archetype that has given birth to some of the best new television on both sides of the pond: The self-destructive single girl. “I’ve sort of given up on people, haven’t I?” Daphne (Emily Beecham) rhetorically asks one of her few remaining friends as she stumbles through another night at the pub, slurping down a glass of whatever keeps the feelings away.
A brittle 31-year-old Londoner who wears some heavy emotional armor and has a major Moira Shearer thing going on, Daphne may enjoy the odd spot of coked up sex in the bathroom of her local bar, but she doesn’t need a man to complete her. On the contrary, she doesn’t need anyone to...
A brittle 31-year-old Londoner who wears some heavy emotional armor and has a major Moira Shearer thing going on, Daphne may enjoy the odd spot of coked up sex in the bathroom of her local bar, but she doesn’t need a man to complete her. On the contrary, she doesn’t need anyone to...
- 3/11/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Exclusive: The Bureau Sales inks deal with fledgling French distributor Mag Distribution.
French outfit The Bureau Sales has closed deals on Daphne at this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.
The film has sold for France to Mag Distribution, the newly-launched distribution company set up by Richard Magnien, Emmanuel Agneray and Yann Gilbert.
The acquisition is part of the company’s debut slate which also includes Radu Jude’s 2016 Locarno premiere Scarred Hearts and Miwa Nishikawa’s Long Excuses, which premiered at Tiff last year.
Daphne has also sold to China with Bilibili. Previous deals closed on the title include Altitude for the UK and Cinemien for Benelux.
The film stars Emily Beecham as a 30-something woman living in London whose life enters a downward spiral after she witnesses a violent attack.
It marks the feature debut of director Peter Mackie Burns, who won a Berlin Golden Bear in 2005 for his short film Milk. [link...
French outfit The Bureau Sales has closed deals on Daphne at this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.
The film has sold for France to Mag Distribution, the newly-launched distribution company set up by Richard Magnien, Emmanuel Agneray and Yann Gilbert.
The acquisition is part of the company’s debut slate which also includes Radu Jude’s 2016 Locarno premiere Scarred Hearts and Miwa Nishikawa’s Long Excuses, which premiered at Tiff last year.
Daphne has also sold to China with Bilibili. Previous deals closed on the title include Altitude for the UK and Cinemien for Benelux.
The film stars Emily Beecham as a 30-something woman living in London whose life enters a downward spiral after she witnesses a violent attack.
It marks the feature debut of director Peter Mackie Burns, who won a Berlin Golden Bear in 2005 for his short film Milk. [link...
- 2/14/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Looking for Mr. Goodbar meets Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret on the streets of 21st century London in Peter Mackie Burns' disarming debut Daphne, the intimate character study of a 31-year-old singleton who goes off the rails after witnessing a random act of violence. First and foremost, it's a cracking little showcase for rising British actress Emily Beecham, who's seldom offscreen for long as the tale's lively, complex, intriguing quasi-heroine.
A low-key but promising first feature from Mackie Burns, winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2005 for his short Milk, it is essentially an expansion of his 11-minute Happy Birthday to Me (2013),...
A low-key but promising first feature from Mackie Burns, winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2005 for his short Milk, it is essentially an expansion of his 11-minute Happy Birthday to Me (2013),...
- 2/8/2017
- by Neil Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Altitude Film Distribution acquires family animation Rock Dog featuring J.K. Simmons, Luke Wilson and Eddie Izzard.
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired UK rights to family animation Rock Dog, which had its European premiere at the recent BFI London Film Festival. The film features a voice cast including J.K. Simmons, Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard and Sam Elliot.
Co-founder and CEO of Altitude Film Entertainment Will Clarke commented, “Following the great response to the film at the BFI London Film Festival, we’re looking forward to introducing this to a wider UK audience.” The film marks Altitude’s first theatrical animation acquistion.
Ralph Kamp, chairman and CEO of the film’s sales agent Timeless Films, commented, “From the very first screening, [Altitude’s] enthusiasm and passion for the film made it clear to us they would be the perfect distribution partner. We hope the film will become a big success in the UK and look forward to the release next year...
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired UK rights to family animation Rock Dog, which had its European premiere at the recent BFI London Film Festival. The film features a voice cast including J.K. Simmons, Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard and Sam Elliot.
Co-founder and CEO of Altitude Film Entertainment Will Clarke commented, “Following the great response to the film at the BFI London Film Festival, we’re looking forward to introducing this to a wider UK audience.” The film marks Altitude’s first theatrical animation acquistion.
Ralph Kamp, chairman and CEO of the film’s sales agent Timeless Films, commented, “From the very first screening, [Altitude’s] enthusiasm and passion for the film made it clear to us they would be the perfect distribution partner. We hope the film will become a big success in the UK and look forward to the release next year...
- 10/31/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Will Clarke's Altitude Film Distribution has picked up UK rights to Daphne, the directorial debut from Scottish filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns. The film stars up-and-coming actress Emily Beecham, who recently was seen in the Coen brothers' Hail, Caesar!, and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, two-time Ifta best actor winner for his performance in hit crime drama Love/Hate. Vaughan-Lawlor also had roles in Brad Furman's The Infiltrator with Bryan Cranston and Jim Sheridan's The S…...
- 9/30/2016
- Deadline
Twenty-two emerging producers to receive up to £2.2m; almost 500 applicants.Scroll Down For Recipients
The BFI has announced the recipients of its 2016-18 Vision Awards, comprising 22 investments in up-and-coming UK producers.
The awards, generally spread over two years, are designed to enable producers to build and develop their companies, slates and creative relationships.
The BFI had intended to give 20 awards but increased that allocation to 22 in response to the number of strong applications it received. Almost 500 companies applied for the awards, which are backed by a total commitment from the BFI of £2.2m of National Lottery funding.
Fifteen of the awards are to women producers or partnerships, while eight of the companies are based outside of London, located in Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and York.
In a bid to foster sustainability, the third iteration of the Vision Awards will include an allowance to cover a producer’s fees and overheads of up to half...
The BFI has announced the recipients of its 2016-18 Vision Awards, comprising 22 investments in up-and-coming UK producers.
The awards, generally spread over two years, are designed to enable producers to build and develop their companies, slates and creative relationships.
The BFI had intended to give 20 awards but increased that allocation to 22 in response to the number of strong applications it received. Almost 500 companies applied for the awards, which are backed by a total commitment from the BFI of £2.2m of National Lottery funding.
Fifteen of the awards are to women producers or partnerships, while eight of the companies are based outside of London, located in Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and York.
In a bid to foster sustainability, the third iteration of the Vision Awards will include an allowance to cover a producer’s fees and overheads of up to half...
- 8/24/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Peter Mackie Burns’ feature debut is being developed by The Bureau.
Golden Bear winner Peter Mackie Burns has started shooting his London-set debut feature Daphne, production company The Bureau has revealed.
Emily Beecham [pictured] - who features in the cast of Berlinale opening film Hail, Caesar! - plays the titular Daphne, a young Londoner with a frenetic lifestyle who decides she needs to change her life after witnessing a violent robbery.
The Bureau producers Tristan Goligher and Valentina Brazzini developed the project in-house. The BFI and Creative Scotland are the main financiers of the film, together with The Bureau.
The company’s Paris-based sister company, The Bureau Sales, is handling international rights.
Mackie Burns won the Golden Bear for best short film in 2005 for Milk, about a girl trying to bathe her grandmother.
Nico Mensinga wrote the screenplay for Daphne in his second collaboration with Mackie Burns after the short Happy Birthday To Me, also starring...
Golden Bear winner Peter Mackie Burns has started shooting his London-set debut feature Daphne, production company The Bureau has revealed.
Emily Beecham [pictured] - who features in the cast of Berlinale opening film Hail, Caesar! - plays the titular Daphne, a young Londoner with a frenetic lifestyle who decides she needs to change her life after witnessing a violent robbery.
The Bureau producers Tristan Goligher and Valentina Brazzini developed the project in-house. The BFI and Creative Scotland are the main financiers of the film, together with The Bureau.
The company’s Paris-based sister company, The Bureau Sales, is handling international rights.
Mackie Burns won the Golden Bear for best short film in 2005 for Milk, about a girl trying to bathe her grandmother.
Nico Mensinga wrote the screenplay for Daphne in his second collaboration with Mackie Burns after the short Happy Birthday To Me, also starring...
- 2/14/2016
- ScreenDaily
Low budget production scheme selects 12 projects; hits diversity target.
Film London Microwave has announced a shortlist of 12 projects for the development stage of its next edition.
The shortlisted projects and teams are:
• The Blue House, Patrick Dickinson (writer and director), Sophie Venner (producer)
• Butterfly Kisses, Greer Ellison (writer), Rafal Kapelinski (director), Merlin Merton and David Braithwaite (producers)
• Daphne’s Inferno, Nico Mensinga (writer) Peter Mackie Burns (director) Valentina Brazzini and Tristan Goligher (producers)
• Engaged, James Condon (writer) Adam Randall (director) Bennett McGhee and Matt Wilkinson (producers)
• Kill Her Witch, Faye Gilbert (writer and director), Yaw Basoah (producer)
• The New Thirty, Wendy Okoi-Obuli (writer), Remi Vaughan-Richards (director), Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo (producer)
• Night Dances, Johnny Kenton (writer and director), Jo Allan (producer)
• The Opposite of Everything, Ruth Pickett (writer), Nour Wazzi ( director), Stephen Smith (producer)
• Punch, Ruth Ivo (writer and director), Rachel Wardlow (producer)
• Unsung, Ayndrilla Singharay (writer), Liam Creighton (director) Fiona Black (producer)
• The Visitor, Sebastian Godwin (writer...
Film London Microwave has announced a shortlist of 12 projects for the development stage of its next edition.
The shortlisted projects and teams are:
• The Blue House, Patrick Dickinson (writer and director), Sophie Venner (producer)
• Butterfly Kisses, Greer Ellison (writer), Rafal Kapelinski (director), Merlin Merton and David Braithwaite (producers)
• Daphne’s Inferno, Nico Mensinga (writer) Peter Mackie Burns (director) Valentina Brazzini and Tristan Goligher (producers)
• Engaged, James Condon (writer) Adam Randall (director) Bennett McGhee and Matt Wilkinson (producers)
• Kill Her Witch, Faye Gilbert (writer and director), Yaw Basoah (producer)
• The New Thirty, Wendy Okoi-Obuli (writer), Remi Vaughan-Richards (director), Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo (producer)
• Night Dances, Johnny Kenton (writer and director), Jo Allan (producer)
• The Opposite of Everything, Ruth Pickett (writer), Nour Wazzi ( director), Stephen Smith (producer)
• Punch, Ruth Ivo (writer and director), Rachel Wardlow (producer)
• Unsung, Ayndrilla Singharay (writer), Liam Creighton (director) Fiona Black (producer)
• The Visitor, Sebastian Godwin (writer...
- 12/15/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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