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Screen East launches 2.25 million fund
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…
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CASTING IS ON FOR ENGLANDS MOST ENTERPRISING ARTS ENTREPRENEURS
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…
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Screen East launches content investment fund at Cannes
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…
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BBC launched New Music Shorts 2007
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…
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Simultaneous release in Cinema and DVD boost profit
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,…
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The “Spirit” of Independent Film Making honoured in LA
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…
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Foreign Language Film Maker’s honoured in pre-Oscar event in LA
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…
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Oscar night mixes predicted results with big surprises
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…
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REBUS APPOINTMENT FOR KAHLEEN CRAWFORD CASTING
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…
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Short Film makers honoured by Oscars Academy in LA
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…
