Maria Martinez Bayona’s The End Of It and Jim O’Hanlon’s Rabbit Hayes are among 11 projects to receive funding through the UK Global Screen Fund, via the fund’s international co-production strand.
It is financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms). This round, the awards allocate over £1.65m to support UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions. To date the strand has now awarded nearly £9m to 57 co-productions.
In this round, funding supports partnerships with Canada, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Switzerland.
Bayona’s The End Of It stars Rebecca Hall,...
It is financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms). This round, the awards allocate over £1.65m to support UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions. To date the strand has now awarded nearly £9m to 57 co-productions.
In this round, funding supports partnerships with Canada, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Switzerland.
Bayona’s The End Of It stars Rebecca Hall,...
- 6/26/2025
- ScreenDaily
Two for the road: producer Grant Keir of Faction North and Virginia Heath looking forward to world première of Lift Share at Eiff Photo: Richard Mowe
Film festivals aren’t just about red carpets, parades of stellar talent, razzamatazz and glittering prizes but can act as a valuable showcase for short films that might otherwise languish virtually unseen and unappreciated.
Edinburgh International Film Festival offers what the curators collectively describe as “a thrilling showcase of the finest brand-new short films from across the globe” in various thematic sections - Dream Images, Optics, Resistant Bodies and for UK talent Firecracker and Kaleidoscope.
For director Virginia Heath and producer Grant Keir (of Faction North) the Eiff world premiere of Lift Share (in UK2: Kaleidoscope) marks the start of what they hope will be an attention-grabbing summer for the film with submissions to Locarno and Toronto to follow and who knows what else.
Film festivals aren’t just about red carpets, parades of stellar talent, razzamatazz and glittering prizes but can act as a valuable showcase for short films that might otherwise languish virtually unseen and unappreciated.
Edinburgh International Film Festival offers what the curators collectively describe as “a thrilling showcase of the finest brand-new short films from across the globe” in various thematic sections - Dream Images, Optics, Resistant Bodies and for UK talent Firecracker and Kaleidoscope.
For director Virginia Heath and producer Grant Keir (of Faction North) the Eiff world premiere of Lift Share (in UK2: Kaleidoscope) marks the start of what they hope will be an attention-grabbing summer for the film with submissions to Locarno and Toronto to follow and who knows what else.
- 6/7/2018
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Discussions to cover development, financing, exhibition and sustainability, and will include a new distribution market.
The Edinbugh International Film Festival (Eiff) has unveiled the line-up of industry events set to take place alongside this year’s festival.
Nine days of events will be held at the Eiff Delegate Centre at the Traverse Theatre from June 18.
Topics to be discussed will range from development and financing through to exhibition and sustainability.
There will be a number of events aimed at offering support and advice to emerging writers, directors and producers including two sessions hosted by partners of the BFI Net.Work looking at progressing from shorts to features.
Representatives from Creative England, Film London and the Scottish Film Talent Network will take part in the events including an opportunity for filmmakers to practice their feature pitch to get feedback on making their future applications stronger.
There will be events focussing on areas of interest specifically for producers...
The Edinbugh International Film Festival (Eiff) has unveiled the line-up of industry events set to take place alongside this year’s festival.
Nine days of events will be held at the Eiff Delegate Centre at the Traverse Theatre from June 18.
Topics to be discussed will range from development and financing through to exhibition and sustainability.
There will be a number of events aimed at offering support and advice to emerging writers, directors and producers including two sessions hosted by partners of the BFI Net.Work looking at progressing from shorts to features.
Representatives from Creative England, Film London and the Scottish Film Talent Network will take part in the events including an opportunity for filmmakers to practice their feature pitch to get feedback on making their future applications stronger.
There will be events focussing on areas of interest specifically for producers...
- 6/3/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Titles in development include Virginia Heath’s Mystery Ride and Taika Waititi’s Hunt For The Wilderpeople.
Australia/New Zealand production, post production and distribution company Curious is ramping up. Here in Cannes, the company has announced further details of its production slate.
Among the features Curious has in development is Mystery Ride, a UK/New Zealand co-production to be directed by Virginia Heath (From Scotland with Love), with a cast including Frances O’Connor, Peter Mullan and Sam Neill. Producers are Lene Bausager of Ugly Duckling Films, Faction North’s Grant Keir and Matt Noonan. TrustNordisk is handling international sales.
Another Curious title, Taika Waititi’s comic adventure Hunt For The Wilderpeople is now in production in New Zealand. The film, which will star Sam Neill (Peaky Blinders) and Julian Dennison, is Waititi’s follow-up tovampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows.
Waititi will produce with Carthew Neal, Leanne Saunders and [link...
Australia/New Zealand production, post production and distribution company Curious is ramping up. Here in Cannes, the company has announced further details of its production slate.
Among the features Curious has in development is Mystery Ride, a UK/New Zealand co-production to be directed by Virginia Heath (From Scotland with Love), with a cast including Frances O’Connor, Peter Mullan and Sam Neill. Producers are Lene Bausager of Ugly Duckling Films, Faction North’s Grant Keir and Matt Noonan. TrustNordisk is handling international sales.
Another Curious title, Taika Waititi’s comic adventure Hunt For The Wilderpeople is now in production in New Zealand. The film, which will star Sam Neill (Peaky Blinders) and Julian Dennison, is Waititi’s follow-up tovampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows.
Waititi will produce with Carthew Neal, Leanne Saunders and [link...
- 5/20/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Production, post and distribution company Curious has announced a ramped up production slate across both Australian and Nz projects, including Pat Nalin.s highly anticipated Beyond the Known World due for completion in mid-2015.
Set in The Himalayas, the Nz-India co-production follows an estranged couple who journey to India in order to search for their missing daughter. The cast includes David Wenham (Lord of the Rings, 300, Top of the Lake), Sia Trokenheim (Step Dave, Everything We Loved), and Emmanuelle Beart (8 Femmes) and is currently in post-production at Curious Auckland.
Matthew Horrocks and Kristian Eek will produce while Matt Noonan and Sarah Noonan are the EPs. Arclight Films is handling international sales. Curious will distribute in Australia and Nz.
Director Taika Watiti of Boy and What We Do in The Shadows has a new comic adventure up his sleeve, with Hunt for the Wilderpeople commencing production on May 18, 2015 in New Zealand.
Set in The Himalayas, the Nz-India co-production follows an estranged couple who journey to India in order to search for their missing daughter. The cast includes David Wenham (Lord of the Rings, 300, Top of the Lake), Sia Trokenheim (Step Dave, Everything We Loved), and Emmanuelle Beart (8 Femmes) and is currently in post-production at Curious Auckland.
Matthew Horrocks and Kristian Eek will produce while Matt Noonan and Sarah Noonan are the EPs. Arclight Films is handling international sales. Curious will distribute in Australia and Nz.
Director Taika Watiti of Boy and What We Do in The Shadows has a new comic adventure up his sleeve, with Hunt for the Wilderpeople commencing production on May 18, 2015 in New Zealand.
- 5/18/2015
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
TrustNordisk has boarded Mystery Ride, the debut feature of writer/director Virginia Heath.
Kelly Reilly [pictured] will star alongside Sam Neill and Peter Mullan.
The film is in pre-production now.
The story follows a woman who returns to the isolated town of Tarawera, New Zealand, after her unfaithful husband dies. She wants to clear his debts but unravels a mystery of a long-disappeared woman and reconnects with a brooding Maori man.
Producers are Grant Keir from Faction North and Lene Bausager from Ugly Duckling Films. Randolph Paul is co-producer of the project, which has development support from New Zealand Film Commission and Creative Scotland.
Heath previously directed award-winning short Relativity and she is currently shooting documentary Oursels As Ithers See Us.
Kelly Reilly [pictured] will star alongside Sam Neill and Peter Mullan.
The film is in pre-production now.
The story follows a woman who returns to the isolated town of Tarawera, New Zealand, after her unfaithful husband dies. She wants to clear his debts but unravels a mystery of a long-disappeared woman and reconnects with a brooding Maori man.
Producers are Grant Keir from Faction North and Lene Bausager from Ugly Duckling Films. Randolph Paul is co-producer of the project, which has development support from New Zealand Film Commission and Creative Scotland.
Heath previously directed award-winning short Relativity and she is currently shooting documentary Oursels As Ithers See Us.
- 11/8/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Reviewed by Amanda Georges
(February 2011)
Directed/Written by: Matt Porterfield
Starring: Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance, James Siebor Jr., Dustin Ray, Cody Ray, Charles “Spike” Sauers, Catherine Evans, Virginia Heath, Casey Weibust and Drew Harris
Genre hybrids are no longer a novelty, just as the use of documentary techniques in fictional films is tried and true. But “Putty Hill” from writer-director Matt Porterfield is a faux documentary so compelling that forgetting the story is fiction is not just a risk but an expectation. The film aims only to present a touching portrayal of a community but in the process reflects gracefully on the nature of storytelling on film.
Shot to look like a documentary, “Putty Hill” follows the people of a small community in Baltimore as they gather to attend the funeral of a local boy, Cory, who died of a drug overdose. Rather than a sweeping statement about loss and suffering,...
(February 2011)
Directed/Written by: Matt Porterfield
Starring: Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance, James Siebor Jr., Dustin Ray, Cody Ray, Charles “Spike” Sauers, Catherine Evans, Virginia Heath, Casey Weibust and Drew Harris
Genre hybrids are no longer a novelty, just as the use of documentary techniques in fictional films is tried and true. But “Putty Hill” from writer-director Matt Porterfield is a faux documentary so compelling that forgetting the story is fiction is not just a risk but an expectation. The film aims only to present a touching portrayal of a community but in the process reflects gracefully on the nature of storytelling on film.
Shot to look like a documentary, “Putty Hill” follows the people of a small community in Baltimore as they gather to attend the funeral of a local boy, Cory, who died of a drug overdose. Rather than a sweeping statement about loss and suffering,...
- 2/16/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Amanda Georges
(February 2011)
Directed/Written by: Matt Porterfield
Starring: Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance, James Siebor Jr., Dustin Ray, Cody Ray, Charles “Spike” Sauers, Catherine Evans, Virginia Heath, Casey Weibust and Drew Harris
Genre hybrids are no longer a novelty, just as the use of documentary techniques in fictional films is tried and true. But “Putty Hill” from writer-director Matt Porterfield is a faux documentary so compelling that forgetting the story is fiction is not just a risk but an expectation. The film aims only to present a touching portrayal of a community but in the process reflects gracefully on the nature of storytelling on film.
Shot to look like a documentary, “Putty Hill” follows the people of a small community in Baltimore as they gather to attend the funeral of a local boy, Cory, who died of a drug overdose. Rather than a sweeping statement about loss and suffering,...
(February 2011)
Directed/Written by: Matt Porterfield
Starring: Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance, James Siebor Jr., Dustin Ray, Cody Ray, Charles “Spike” Sauers, Catherine Evans, Virginia Heath, Casey Weibust and Drew Harris
Genre hybrids are no longer a novelty, just as the use of documentary techniques in fictional films is tried and true. But “Putty Hill” from writer-director Matt Porterfield is a faux documentary so compelling that forgetting the story is fiction is not just a risk but an expectation. The film aims only to present a touching portrayal of a community but in the process reflects gracefully on the nature of storytelling on film.
Shot to look like a documentary, “Putty Hill” follows the people of a small community in Baltimore as they gather to attend the funeral of a local boy, Cory, who died of a drug overdose. Rather than a sweeping statement about loss and suffering,...
- 2/16/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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