The 2018 event will take place June 18-21.
Film London has revealed the dates for the 15th edition of London Screenings – the UK export market which showcases British films to global buyers.
Taking place June 18-21 in 2018, the event will offer attendees the opportunity to view a range of UK projects including completed features and work-in-progress titles.
Last year’s London Screenings featured the now Bafta-nominated God’s Own Country and The Ghoul.
The Breakthrough strand is also returning this year, offering a platform for emerging British filmmakers to show their work to sales agents and festival curators. In 2017, Jason Wingard’s In Another Life was showcased and went on to win the Discovery Award at the British Independent Film Awards.
Adrian Wootton OBE, chief executive of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “While the UK is at the heart of global content production and demand for our talent and skills has never been higher, we’re also...
Film London has revealed the dates for the 15th edition of London Screenings – the UK export market which showcases British films to global buyers.
Taking place June 18-21 in 2018, the event will offer attendees the opportunity to view a range of UK projects including completed features and work-in-progress titles.
Last year’s London Screenings featured the now Bafta-nominated God’s Own Country and The Ghoul.
The Breakthrough strand is also returning this year, offering a platform for emerging British filmmakers to show their work to sales agents and festival curators. In 2017, Jason Wingard’s In Another Life was showcased and went on to win the Discovery Award at the British Independent Film Awards.
Adrian Wootton OBE, chief executive of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “While the UK is at the heart of global content production and demand for our talent and skills has never been higher, we’re also...
- 2/18/2018
- 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
Quick takes from the 25th Raindance Film Festival, with public screenings in London through October 1st, 2017.
In Another Life
British filmmaker Jason Wingard went to the Jungle, the refugee camp in Calais, intending to make a documentary about life there. But after befriending those living in squalor out of desperation, he decided to make a narrative based on their stories instead, shot in the Jungle and with some of them playing versions of themselves. The result is an astonishingly moving film that rehumanizes people who have been dehumanized in public discourse, putting faces to the still-ongoing refugee crisis and inescapably reminding us that those we’ve Othered are not very different from us. “In another life,” Syrian refugee Adnan (French actor Elie Haddad) tells us in the touching narration through which we follow his journey, “I was a teacher.” His new friends in the Jungle are other middle-class people from such far-flung places as Sudan,...
In Another Life
British filmmaker Jason Wingard went to the Jungle, the refugee camp in Calais, intending to make a documentary about life there. But after befriending those living in squalor out of desperation, he decided to make a narrative based on their stories instead, shot in the Jungle and with some of them playing versions of themselves. The result is an astonishingly moving film that rehumanizes people who have been dehumanized in public discourse, putting faces to the still-ongoing refugee crisis and inescapably reminding us that those we’ve Othered are not very different from us. “In another life,” Syrian refugee Adnan (French actor Elie Haddad) tells us in the touching narration through which we follow his journey, “I was a teacher.” His new friends in the Jungle are other middle-class people from such far-flung places as Sudan,...
- 9/30/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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