Exclusive: ScreenSkills has backed a course to discover the next generation of disabled directors, writers and producers.
The UK training body has joined forces with film training and production specialist 104 Films on the course, which kicks off today.
The participants will have a week of workshops and training with top industry figures including BAFTA-longlisted disabled filmmaker Ella Glendining, BBC Film’s Kristin Irving, Film4’s Max Park, Mia Bayes from the BFI and Netflix’s Bradley Quirk.
The training program is funded by the ScreenSkills Film Skills Fund with contributions from UK film productions. A scaled-down version ran in 2022 but this is the first in person.
The move comes with the UK industry committing to various programs in order to boost disability representation. The newly-formed TV Access Project is targeting no disabled talent to feel excluded by 2030.
Emma Turner, Head of Film, Animation and Future Skills at ScreenSkills, said: “The...
The UK training body has joined forces with film training and production specialist 104 Films on the course, which kicks off today.
The participants will have a week of workshops and training with top industry figures including BAFTA-longlisted disabled filmmaker Ella Glendining, BBC Film’s Kristin Irving, Film4’s Max Park, Mia Bayes from the BFI and Netflix’s Bradley Quirk.
The training program is funded by the ScreenSkills Film Skills Fund with contributions from UK film productions. A scaled-down version ran in 2022 but this is the first in person.
The move comes with the UK industry committing to various programs in order to boost disability representation. The newly-formed TV Access Project is targeting no disabled talent to feel excluded by 2030.
Emma Turner, Head of Film, Animation and Future Skills at ScreenSkills, said: “The...
- 1/15/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
International Film Festival Rotterdam has unveiled its selection of 20 feature film projects and five immersive projects for the 40th edition of CineMart, the festival’s co-production market, which runs from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1. Following two online editions, the market is hosted in-person for the first time since 2020.
Filmmakers from Indonesia, Paraguay, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ukraine are among the lineup, which features subjects such as hip-hop, migration and gender fluidity, as well as a cowboy.
Head of IFFR Pro, Inke Van Loocke, said: “In fragmented times, bringing together incredible filmmakers and projects from so many different territories continues to be an invaluable contribution to filmmaking across the world.
“Together with producers in the Rotterdam Lab, filmmakers in the selection, and our wider press and industry family, it will be a heartwarming feeling to experience the buzz of a proper IFFR in De Doelen again.”
Sweden’s Plattform...
Filmmakers from Indonesia, Paraguay, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ukraine are among the lineup, which features subjects such as hip-hop, migration and gender fluidity, as well as a cowboy.
Head of IFFR Pro, Inke Van Loocke, said: “In fragmented times, bringing together incredible filmmakers and projects from so many different territories continues to be an invaluable contribution to filmmaking across the world.
“Together with producers in the Rotterdam Lab, filmmakers in the selection, and our wider press and industry family, it will be a heartwarming feeling to experience the buzz of a proper IFFR in De Doelen again.”
Sweden’s Plattform...
- 12/18/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
20 features and five immersive projects will be presented at the co-production market.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has selected 20 feature projects for the 40th edition of its CineMart co-production market, including Eldorado, the next feature from The Unknown Saint director Alaa Eddine Aljem.
The project follows a group of migrants seeking to reach the secret utopian island of Eldorado, who actually end up in a factory of the same name that produces tomato sauce.
Scroll down for the full CineMart 2023 selection
The project is being produced by Francesca Duca for Morocco’s Le Moindre Geste.
Aljem’s debut feature The...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has selected 20 feature projects for the 40th edition of its CineMart co-production market, including Eldorado, the next feature from The Unknown Saint director Alaa Eddine Aljem.
The project follows a group of migrants seeking to reach the secret utopian island of Eldorado, who actually end up in a factory of the same name that produces tomato sauce.
Scroll down for the full CineMart 2023 selection
The project is being produced by Francesca Duca for Morocco’s Le Moindre Geste.
Aljem’s debut feature The...
- 12/15/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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