The fund will target productions that bring benefits to the Scottish film sector and economy.
In what Creative Scotland’s Director of Film & Media, Natalie Usher, is describing as “a really fantastic offering,” the new Scottish $2.7m (£1.75m) Production Growth Fund (Pgf) has launched and is open for applications today.
“It is a fund that will be attractive to feature film and high-end TV drama productions that will be accessing the UK tax credits,” Usher told ScreenDaily.
“What we are trying to do is bring bigger productions here and to hold on to productions from Scottish-based producers who might otherwise go to other nations or parts of the UK.”
Investments from the Pgf are non-recoupable and will reward productions that bring benefits to the Scottish film sector and economy.
A total of £750,000 is available for the period until March 31 2016 and a further £1m is earmarked for 2016/17.
The maximum any production can receive from the Pgf is £500,000 -...
In what Creative Scotland’s Director of Film & Media, Natalie Usher, is describing as “a really fantastic offering,” the new Scottish $2.7m (£1.75m) Production Growth Fund (Pgf) has launched and is open for applications today.
“It is a fund that will be attractive to feature film and high-end TV drama productions that will be accessing the UK tax credits,” Usher told ScreenDaily.
“What we are trying to do is bring bigger productions here and to hold on to productions from Scottish-based producers who might otherwise go to other nations or parts of the UK.”
Investments from the Pgf are non-recoupable and will reward productions that bring benefits to the Scottish film sector and economy.
A total of £750,000 is available for the period until March 31 2016 and a further £1m is earmarked for 2016/17.
The maximum any production can receive from the Pgf is £500,000 -...
- 10/29/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Film director whose career took him from gritty television plays to Hollywood thrillers
People who talk wistfully of the "golden age of British television drama" are often accused of viewing the past through the rosy lens of nostalgia. But a clear-eyed examination of the era proves that such slots as the BBC's The Wednesday Play (1964-70) and Play for Today (1970-84) were unsurpassed as breeding grounds for talented directors such as John Mackenzie, who has died after a stroke aged 83. Like most of his contemporaries who gained their experience by working in television – Philip Saville, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Ken Loach, Mike Newell, Michael Apted and Mike Leigh – Mackenzie went on to make feature films, notably his superb London-based gangster picture, The Long Good Friday (1980).
The television background trained Mackenzie to work quickly on taut and realistic narratives, within a tight budget and on schedule. One of his first jobs was as...
People who talk wistfully of the "golden age of British television drama" are often accused of viewing the past through the rosy lens of nostalgia. But a clear-eyed examination of the era proves that such slots as the BBC's The Wednesday Play (1964-70) and Play for Today (1970-84) were unsurpassed as breeding grounds for talented directors such as John Mackenzie, who has died after a stroke aged 83. Like most of his contemporaries who gained their experience by working in television – Philip Saville, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Ken Loach, Mike Newell, Michael Apted and Mike Leigh – Mackenzie went on to make feature films, notably his superb London-based gangster picture, The Long Good Friday (1980).
The television background trained Mackenzie to work quickly on taut and realistic narratives, within a tight budget and on schedule. One of his first jobs was as...
- 6/12/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Although proud of the films which portray my city's recurring themes of poverty, violence and deprivation, I occasionally yearn for something more uplifting
A chorus line of fluffers and panderers will gather this August, as they always do, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival to celebrate Kazimierz Lubanski's lost Warsaw arthouse études. Or perhaps it may be Igor Masopust's seminal, and rarely seen, Carpathian trilogie. But whichever it is, I will wonder, and not for the first time, when they will get round to assembling a retrospective on the emerging west of Scotland cinematic oeuvre which has been loosely christened Glasgow Noir by some and Clyde Mort by others.
Next week, I hope to view the latest work in this canon, Neds, by the gifted actor and director Peter Mullan. I'm told it is a gritty and visceral study on how ancient and tribal gang loyalties destroy the academic dream...
A chorus line of fluffers and panderers will gather this August, as they always do, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival to celebrate Kazimierz Lubanski's lost Warsaw arthouse études. Or perhaps it may be Igor Masopust's seminal, and rarely seen, Carpathian trilogie. But whichever it is, I will wonder, and not for the first time, when they will get round to assembling a retrospective on the emerging west of Scotland cinematic oeuvre which has been loosely christened Glasgow Noir by some and Clyde Mort by others.
Next week, I hope to view the latest work in this canon, Neds, by the gifted actor and director Peter Mullan. I'm told it is a gritty and visceral study on how ancient and tribal gang loyalties destroy the academic dream...
- 3/14/2011
- by Kevin McKenna
- The Guardian - Film News
Despite its post-apocalyptic setting, there's a sense of wonder in the "Fallout" games. A sense of freedom, that the horizon is your oyster and any interesting landmark in the distance is just waiting for you to explore its depths. "Fallout: New Vegas" manages to capture this sense of freedom rather well, and makes for a worthy addition to the franchise, albeit one somewhat marred by serious bugs.
The Basics
You are a courier working in and around the Mojave desert. In the midst of a special delivery, you're caught, bound and shot in the head. "Fallout: New Vegas" focuses on your quest to find out why, and eventually that quest will shape the world around you.
Gameplay-wise, "Fallout: New Vegas" is almost identical to "Fallout 3," save for a few additions here and there. For the most part, though, it's still an action-rpg which allows you to play as a club-swinging brute,...
The Basics
You are a courier working in and around the Mojave desert. In the midst of a special delivery, you're caught, bound and shot in the head. "Fallout: New Vegas" focuses on your quest to find out why, and eventually that quest will shape the world around you.
Gameplay-wise, "Fallout: New Vegas" is almost identical to "Fallout 3," save for a few additions here and there. For the most part, though, it's still an action-rpg which allows you to play as a club-swinging brute,...
- 10/19/2010
- by Russ Frushtick
- MTV Multiplayer
Well Covert Affairs is definitely on a run, we're getting one fantastic episode after another. This week we get special guest stars Eriq La Salle who played Dr. Benton on ER, Jai is back, and Ben Mercer! The gangs all here so let's get to it, but be careful and don't get muddy.
Annie jokingly says she has graduated from bringing everybody lunch to getting the coffee but by the time she gives Auggie his cup of joe, it's stone cold. Auggie says he has a present (a graduation gift maybe, hehe); its a new encrypted smartphone and Annie gladly hands in her old 90's style phone they had her using.
The CIA gets word that there is an armed shipment headed to the Us that has 3 surface-to-air missiles. They don't know where the ship is or which city its headed to, but they know the ship has the infamous...
Annie jokingly says she has graduated from bringing everybody lunch to getting the coffee but by the time she gives Auggie his cup of joe, it's stone cold. Auggie says he has a present (a graduation gift maybe, hehe); its a new encrypted smartphone and Annie gladly hands in her old 90's style phone they had her using.
The CIA gets word that there is an armed shipment headed to the Us that has 3 surface-to-air missiles. They don't know where the ship is or which city its headed to, but they know the ship has the infamous...
- 8/11/2010
- by clydefamous
44 Inch Chest stars Deadwood's Ian McShane alongside a who's-who of British beefcake, but who would make John Patterson's dream team of UK movie hard men?
I have to admit I like the look of 44 Inch Chest, and particularly its wall-to-wall cast of British hard men: Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Steven Berkoff and John Hurt.
John Hurt, you say, a British tough guy? Well, it's all about stunt-casting here; almost every major piece of casting works because somewhere in each actor's back catalogue is at least one meaty outing as a nasty piece of work brandishing a gun. For Hurt it was Stephen Frears's mid-80s Spanish revenger's road-movie The Hit.
Ian McShane is actually a two-stage piece of stunt casting. When he was cast as the ambi-sexual crime lord in Sexy Beast, the film-makers were referencing his role as Richard Burton's gangland catamite in Villain (1971), and...
I have to admit I like the look of 44 Inch Chest, and particularly its wall-to-wall cast of British hard men: Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Steven Berkoff and John Hurt.
John Hurt, you say, a British tough guy? Well, it's all about stunt-casting here; almost every major piece of casting works because somewhere in each actor's back catalogue is at least one meaty outing as a nasty piece of work brandishing a gun. For Hurt it was Stephen Frears's mid-80s Spanish revenger's road-movie The Hit.
Ian McShane is actually a two-stage piece of stunt casting. When he was cast as the ambi-sexual crime lord in Sexy Beast, the film-makers were referencing his role as Richard Burton's gangland catamite in Villain (1971), and...
- 1/9/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Few (if any) radio shows could ever claim to challenge the legendary status of the late John Peel's The Peel Sessions on the BBC's Radio 1. Having first discovered them myself while sifting through the import CD racks of several long-gone indie record shops throughout the midwest, these little gems were live performances from some of rocks biggest names along with many underground legends and true sonic innovators.
Never afraid to break the mold while exposing listeners to new genres, Peel was a vocal supporter of the Grindcore movement, inviting several then-unknown now-legendary bands to perform in his studio from 1987-1990. Now, Earache Records has acquired the rights to release many of these performances in their entirety for the very first time.
Collected in Grindcore Madness At The BBC, this 3Cd set is a monster - boasting a massive 118 tracks from Napalm Death, Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Extreme Noise Terror, Heresy,...
Never afraid to break the mold while exposing listeners to new genres, Peel was a vocal supporter of the Grindcore movement, inviting several then-unknown now-legendary bands to perform in his studio from 1987-1990. Now, Earache Records has acquired the rights to release many of these performances in their entirety for the very first time.
Collected in Grindcore Madness At The BBC, this 3Cd set is a monster - boasting a massive 118 tracks from Napalm Death, Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Extreme Noise Terror, Heresy,...
- 10/27/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
- Fangoria
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