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Studio Soho Distribution has debuted the UK poster and full trailer for Jeremy Hersh’s festival favourite The Surrogate, ahead of its UK release in cinemas (!) on the 9th of July.

The film stars Jasmine Batchelor as Jess, a young woman who is about to become surrogate and egg-donor for her best friend. Batchelor has been winning plaudits for her performance, including her nomination for a Breakthrough Actor award at the IFP Gotham Awards. The film also stars Chris Perfetti, Sullivan Jones, Brooke Bloom, Eboni Booth, William DeMeritt and Purva Bedi.

Here’s the new UK poster which was revealed today.

Plot:

A sensitive insight into the complex issues surrounding surrogacy, The Surrogate follows Jess Harris, a 29-year-old web designer, who is excited to be the surrogate and egg-donor for her best friend Josh and his husband Aaron. Twelve weeks into the pregnancy, a prenatal test comes back with unexpected...

Dalibor Barić's Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus is among 27 films on the long list for Best Animated Feature at this year's Academy Awards. The Croatian feature-length animated experimental film Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus by Dalibor Barić has somewhat unexpectedly entered the 27-film-strong long list for Best Animated Feature at this year's Academy Awards. Producer Ivan Katić has been in animation with his studio, Kaos, since 1995, when he was approached by Dušan Vukotić, the only Croatian Oscar winner, who bagged the Academy Award for his short Surrogate in 1961, to work on his new film. When Katić saw the film that Barić had basically made on his own, at his home studio, he immediately sent it to Annecy. It was quickly selected for Annecy's Contrechamp Competition, and screenings at festivals such as Bucheon, Thessaloniki and Seville followed. This portfolio was good enough for the...

The 10th edition of U.S. In Progress Wroclaw, the industry wing of the American Film Festival in Poland which was held online this year, wrapped over the weekend and presented a variety of awards to the participating American film projects.

The awards range from post-production services to travel bursaries and cash. A $10,000 cash prize to be put towards post-production in Poland was awarded to the film To The Moon from director Scott Friend and producers Cate Smierciak, Everett Hendler, Stephanie Randall, and Gabe Wilson. The full list of awards is below.

In addition to the U.S. projects, a group of U.S. experts including Sony Pictures Classics’ Dylan Leiner and CAA execs Maren Olson and Kat Moncrief took part in pitching and one-on-one sessions with Polish projects seeking U.S. partners. The non-competitive event is designed to foster potential co-productions and was hosted by Deadline.

In the wider festival,...

London -- It is unusual for organizers of any long-running international movie festival to find themselves immersed in controversy before anyone has seen anything -- but that is just what Edinburgh International Film Festival organizers are mulling Thursday.

The Eiff booked Tel Aviv University graduate Tali Shalom Ezer's "Surrogate" into this year's lineup and took receipt of £300 ($470) from the Israeli Embassy towards the costs of getting her to the Scottish capital to support the film.

But after protests from many areas of the filmmaking community, and most notably veteran British director Ken Loach who is an oft outspoken opponent of Israel's policies, the festival returned the cash.

Bad move it seems as prominent industry-ites such as Jeremy Isaacs, the former Channel Four chief and other Jewish organizations called the festival's move a form of censorship.

"It must be good for cinemagoers at an international film festival to see films by Jews,...