All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 8
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Features11 hot topics from the Bafta nominations: voters embrace genre films, Cannes premieres, Gen Z stars
It is also a mixed year for UK talent and women are missing in many key categories.
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News‘Conclave’, ‘Emilia Perez’ lead Bafta 2025 nominations
Forty-two films are nominated across the 23 feature categories.
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News‘Kneecap’ leads Irish Film and Television Academy awards nominations
The ceremony will take place in Dublin on February 14.
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News‘Six The Musical Live!’ lands UK-Ireland release (exclusive)
A filmed version of the stage musical will hit cinemas on April 6.
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NewsScreen Ireland appoints former Element Pictures exec as head of TV
Kate McColgan is taking over from Andrew Byrne.
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NewsIrish post-production house Windmill Lane Pictures closes with immediate effect
Windmill Lane recording studios remains in operation,
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FeaturesEight talking points for the UK film industry in 2025
Key questions include: will the indie tax credit be transformative? How will cinemas adapt? And what is going on with James Bond?
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NewsSister’s Jane Featherstone calls for enhanced TV tax credit
Sister’s Jane Featherstone wants a tiered tax credit system to help lower-budget high-end TV as well as production in the nations and regions.
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NewsIrish genre writers focus of €50,000 initiative co-launched by Bankside Films (exclusive)
The €50,000 scheme supports Irish screenwriters working on their first or second feature across thriller, horror or sci-fi genre.
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Features75 films to tempt festival directors in 2025
Expect films from Chloe Zhao, Carla Simon, Julia Ducournau, Annemarie Jacir, Kathryn Bigelow, Lynne Ramsay and (possibly) Lucrecia Martel.
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NewsSix talking points from the Bafta 2025 film awards longlists
Some major contenders missed out while others were surprisingly well represented.
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FeaturesThe BFI’s 10 biggest distribution awards of 2024
Titles include ‘Io Capitano’, ‘Copa 71’ and ‘Kneecap’.
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Features‘The Thing With Feathers’, ‘Pillion’ among key 2024 BFI production awards
Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut and ‘Retreat’, a thriller with a predominantly deaf cast, are also on the list.
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NewsBerlinale director commits to “inclusive and open” festival amid free-speech concerns
After calls from some corners for a boycott, Tricia Tuttle says people should ”approach us rather than make assumptions” about the festival’s stance.
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NewsLittle improvement for female directors at UK-Ireland box office in 2024
Sam Taylor-Johnson’s ’Back To Black’, Kelly Marcel’s ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ and ’Moana 2’, co-directed by Dana Ledoux Miller, performed strongest in cinemas.
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NewsUNIQA, Sarajevo Film Festival launch programme for female filmmakers
It is open to female-identifying filmmakers with projects connected to Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Romania and Montenegro.
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News‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ tops UK-Ireland box office but opens below predecessor
Holdovers including ‘Wicked’ and ‘Moana 2’ stay firmly put in the top five.
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NewsTilda Swinton to receive honorary Golden Bear at Berlinale
The UK actor has starred in 26 films to play at the festival.
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NewsUK creative industries invited to contribute to parliament committee's pioneering inquiry
The committee aims to hold four to six evidence sessions a year to explore the challenges raised by the successful proposals before making recommendations to the government.
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NewsBifa, Anton pair up for next iteration of Springboard programme (exclusive)
It is targeted specifically at genre producers or writers.