If hotel capacity is any gauge, this year's Cannes film fest looks to be a lot less crowded, Variety reports.A month before the start of the fest, most key hotels along the Croisette -- including the Majestic, Carlton, Palais Stephanie (the former Noga Hilton), Grand and Martinez -- still have

Budding young film-makers around the country are being invited to enter a BFI-run competition to make a short film that showcases the vibrancy and energy of London.The competition, called London in Motion, sees the BFI partner with the Mayor of London as part of the Story of London campaign –

The UK Film Council is driving digital innovation through a new funding programme that will help the industry transition into the new format and bring film content to a wider audience.Under the initiative, funding will go to support new business models and services that maximise revenue streams for content creators

A group of MP’s has demanded that the BBC rein in its commercial arm, BBC Wordwide, and bail-out struggling rival Channel 4.BBC Worldwide was criticized by the government’s culture, media and sport committee for its decision to buy Lonely Planet, because it has no ties to BBC’s content.Last year BBC

Now in its 15th year, Encounters Short Film Festival (17 – 22 November 2009) has become known world-wide for the extraordinary community of filmmakers it attracts, and for the quality and scope of its programming. This celebrated event is the largest festival of its kind in the UK, showcasing over

Freida Pinto, Slumdog Millionaire star, has joined the cast of Julian Schnabel’s “Miral” - an adaptation of a book about Hind Husseini, who founded an orphanage in Jerusalem in the wake of 1948 partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.Pinto recently boarded Woody Allen’s new Untitled

Ridley Scott receives BFI FellowshipThe BFI announced yesterday that Ridley Scott became the 62nd recipient of a BFI Fellowship, joining other distinguished names in cinema history such as David Lean, Clint Eastwood, Bernardo Bertolucci and Bette Davis, and Sir Denis Forman, Verity Lambert and Lord Bernstein from the world of

Variety reports that the BBC is to increase spending on its Web-based activities by 27 over the next three years. This will bring the Corp’s online spend to over £144 million per annum for the next 3 years, an increase of £30 million.The increase, which is bound to worry privately-funded