Screen East launches £2.25 millionContent Investment Fund at the Cannes Film FestivalRegional Screen Agency, Screen East launched an exciting new £2.25 million Content Investment Fund at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday 19 May with internationally celebrated director Michael Winterbottom and producer Andrew Eaton officially announcing the scheme which is

CASTING IS ON FOR ENGLAND’S MOST ENTERPRISING ARTS ENTREPRENEURSNational Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship, Northern Edge, and Arts Council England to select 40 social entrepreneurs to take centre stageApplications now being acceptedAspiring entrepreneurs with a flair for the arts will have the chance to turn their business ideas into fully-fledged social

Screen East launches £2.25 million Content Investment Fund at the Cannes Film FestivalRegional Screen Agency, Screen East launches an exciting new £2.25 million Content Investment Fund at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday 19 May with internationally celebrated director Michael Winterbottom and producer Andrew Eaton officially announcing the scheme which

The BBC today launched New Music Shorts 2007 – an initiative offering aspiring filmmakers a £5,000 budget to make a music-based short film with a professional production company and have it premiered at the BBC Electric Proms festival in October.BBC Electric Proms, BBC Film Network and BBC New Talent are

Simultaneous release of film in Cinema and DVD will boost studio revenues – but optimal distribution strategy differs between countriesFilm studios in the US can boost revenues by 16 if films are released simultaneously in cinemas, on rental DVD and through video-on-demand (VOD), a global study shows for the first

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.The big event in the film awards calendar, the day before the Oscars, is the Independent Spirit Awards, which honour low budget films, made outside the major studio system. The event, held in a marquee on the beach in Santa Monica

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.Representatives from the Oscar-nominated Foreign Language films attended a question and answer session at the Academy's Beverly Hills headquarters on Saturday, a day before the Oscars..After showing clips from the films, the directors answered questions from the thousand-strong audience at the

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.One of the most highly regarded film directors in modern cinema has finally joined the top echelon of the film industry - Martin Scorsese picked up the Best Director Oscar at this year's ceremony at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. His

REBUS APPOINTMENT FOR KAHLEEN CRAWFORD CASTINGKahleen Crawford, one of the film & TV industry’s most exciting emerging young casting directors, has been hired to cast all four episodes of the new series of Rebus, one of ITV’s most popular drama serials.Number 24 in the ratings of Billboard’s top TV shows

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.“It all started with a short,” the Oscar-winning short (Teenage Father, 1978) – and Oscar-nominated feature (Ray, 2004) – director Taylor Hackford to an audience of more than a thousand people in Hollywood, gathered to watch this year’s ten Oscar-nominated short