Directors include Bifa winners Jason Wingard and Carol Salter.
The Uncertain Kingdom, the £200,000 short film initiative aiming to provide a portrait of the contemporary UK, has unveiled the 20 films on its slate.
Actors participating in the projects include Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Mark Addy (Game Of Thrones), Steve Evets (Apostasy), Hugh Dennis (Fleabag), Andy Hamilton (What We Did On Our Holiday), Ruth Madeley (Years & Years) and Laurie Davidson (Cats).
Screen can also reveal an exclusive first look at one of the titles, Hope Dickson Leach’s Strong Is Better Than Angry, above.
Each film is receiving £10,000. The finance is privately raised.
The Uncertain Kingdom, the £200,000 short film initiative aiming to provide a portrait of the contemporary UK, has unveiled the 20 films on its slate.
Actors participating in the projects include Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Mark Addy (Game Of Thrones), Steve Evets (Apostasy), Hugh Dennis (Fleabag), Andy Hamilton (What We Did On Our Holiday), Ruth Madeley (Years & Years) and Laurie Davidson (Cats).
Screen can also reveal an exclusive first look at one of the titles, Hope Dickson Leach’s Strong Is Better Than Angry, above.
Each film is receiving £10,000. The finance is privately raised.
- 11/18/2019
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Verve Pictures to distribute completed films at the end of the year.
The £200,000 short films initiative The Uncertain Kingdom, launched in December 2018, has finalised the 20 directors who will each receive £10,000 to finance a short film project.
Joining the previously announced Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling) are the Oscar-winning Orlando Von Einsiedel (The White Helmets), International Emmy winner Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered) and Bifa winner Carol Salter (Almost Heaven).
Also on the roster are four former Screen Stars of Tomorrow: actor/writer/director Antonia Campbell-Hughes, writer/director Rubika Shah, and producers Helen Simmons and Yaw Basoah.
The full list of project teams can be found below.
The £200,000 short films initiative The Uncertain Kingdom, launched in December 2018, has finalised the 20 directors who will each receive £10,000 to finance a short film project.
Joining the previously announced Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling) are the Oscar-winning Orlando Von Einsiedel (The White Helmets), International Emmy winner Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered) and Bifa winner Carol Salter (Almost Heaven).
Also on the roster are four former Screen Stars of Tomorrow: actor/writer/director Antonia Campbell-Hughes, writer/director Rubika Shah, and producers Helen Simmons and Yaw Basoah.
The full list of project teams can be found below.
- 5/31/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The low-budget production scheme has selected 12 projects and exceeded diversity target.
Film London Microwave has announced the shortlist of the 12 projects selected for its annual production and training scheme.
According to Film London, this year’s applications exceeded its diversity target of 50%. Over half of the teams who applied have a writer, director or producer from a black, Asian or minority ethnic (Bame) background.
The shortlisted projects and teams are:
Amsterdam, Lisa Jacobs (writer), Tara Fitzgerald (director), Georgina French (producer) Barefaced, David Cornwall (writer), Chester Yang (director), Adebayo Awolaja (producer)
Brutal, Ed Aldridge (writer), Scott Rawsthorne (director), Jon Shaikh (director), Amyra Bunyard (producer)
Looted, Rene Pannevis (writer-director), Jennifer Ericsson (producer), Jessie Mangum (co-producer)
Nocturnal, Olivia Waring (writer), Shan Ng (director), Robert Williams (producer), Colin Day (producer)
Real Boy, Liam Creighton (writer-director), Danny de Warren (producer)
Running Out of Grime, Dwayne Gumbs (writer/director), Iain Simpson (director), Benedict Turnbull (producer), Alex Williams (producer), Harri Kamalanathan (producer)
Samurai Sword, Lab Ky Mo...
Film London Microwave has announced the shortlist of the 12 projects selected for its annual production and training scheme.
According to Film London, this year’s applications exceeded its diversity target of 50%. Over half of the teams who applied have a writer, director or producer from a black, Asian or minority ethnic (Bame) background.
The shortlisted projects and teams are:
Amsterdam, Lisa Jacobs (writer), Tara Fitzgerald (director), Georgina French (producer) Barefaced, David Cornwall (writer), Chester Yang (director), Adebayo Awolaja (producer)
Brutal, Ed Aldridge (writer), Scott Rawsthorne (director), Jon Shaikh (director), Amyra Bunyard (producer)
Looted, Rene Pannevis (writer-director), Jennifer Ericsson (producer), Jessie Mangum (co-producer)
Nocturnal, Olivia Waring (writer), Shan Ng (director), Robert Williams (producer), Colin Day (producer)
Real Boy, Liam Creighton (writer-director), Danny de Warren (producer)
Running Out of Grime, Dwayne Gumbs (writer/director), Iain Simpson (director), Benedict Turnbull (producer), Alex Williams (producer), Harri Kamalanathan (producer)
Samurai Sword, Lab Ky Mo...
- 11/30/2015
- ScreenDaily
More than 20 filmmaking teams recieve London Calling and London Calling Plus commissions.Scroll down for full list
Film London has awarded 21 filmmaking teams across the capital with funds to make short films through its London Calling and London Calling Plus initiatives. A record 620 applications were received this year.
The scheme invests more than $300,000 (£200,000) in London’s short filmmakers with production funding, training and a platform to showcase the films to the industry.
Last year’s slate included Riz Ahmad’s Daytimer, which premiered at Sundance; the BAFTA-nominated Three Brothers; and Loco Award-winning Two Dosas.
This year’s slate includes Chick or Treat from rising internet stars Mandem On The Wall; The Monster, which will star Richard Glover (A Field In England, Sightseers); Rainbow Party, which marks the directorial debut of BAFTA-nominated producer Eva Sigurdardottir; and Above, which was scripted by award-winning playwright Michael Bhim.
Chick or Treat is one of the projects selected by London Calling Plus, now...
Film London has awarded 21 filmmaking teams across the capital with funds to make short films through its London Calling and London Calling Plus initiatives. A record 620 applications were received this year.
The scheme invests more than $300,000 (£200,000) in London’s short filmmakers with production funding, training and a platform to showcase the films to the industry.
Last year’s slate included Riz Ahmad’s Daytimer, which premiered at Sundance; the BAFTA-nominated Three Brothers; and Loco Award-winning Two Dosas.
This year’s slate includes Chick or Treat from rising internet stars Mandem On The Wall; The Monster, which will star Richard Glover (A Field In England, Sightseers); Rainbow Party, which marks the directorial debut of BAFTA-nominated producer Eva Sigurdardottir; and Above, which was scripted by award-winning playwright Michael Bhim.
Chick or Treat is one of the projects selected by London Calling Plus, now...
- 3/5/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
TLA Releasing
NEW YORK -- Much as Quentin Tarantino has created a genre unto himself with only a few films, British director Guy Ritchie has an influence not really commensurate with his limited output -- his fingerprints are all over this would-be black comedy about a pair of gay hustlers. Witless, sophomoric and relentlessly frenetic, "9 Dead Gay Guys", currently playing at New York's Quad Cinema, is about as funny and understated as its title.
The hustlers in question are not actually gay, mind you, just working-stiff Irish guys living in London and looking to make some easy money. Kenny (Glenn Mulhern) is recruited into the profession by his best friend Byron (Brendan Mackey), who has taken to providing oral sex for money to the patrons of a gay pub. Kenny proves to have such a knack for his new avocation that he causes his first client (noted actor and playwright Steven Berkoff) to have a fatal attack, thereby making him dead gay guy No. 1.
Unfortunately for viewers, there are eight dead gay guys to go, their demises resulting from the pair's ill-advised attempts to procure a large stash of money supposedly stashed in the mattress of one of their clients, a closeted Orthodox Jew. Among the more colorful figures involved are an angry dwarf with penis issues, a Pakistani cabdriver and a tougher-than-nails lesbian.
Director-screenwriter Lab Ky Mo attempts to enliven the frequently incoherent proceedings with a wide variety of stylistic tricks, most of which merely have the effect of spotlighting the paucity of wit on display. He has also elicited broad, over-the-top performances from the entire cast (not, as with the case of Mr. Berkoff, that it's a difficult task), but the net effect is more exhausting than entertaining.
NEW YORK -- Much as Quentin Tarantino has created a genre unto himself with only a few films, British director Guy Ritchie has an influence not really commensurate with his limited output -- his fingerprints are all over this would-be black comedy about a pair of gay hustlers. Witless, sophomoric and relentlessly frenetic, "9 Dead Gay Guys", currently playing at New York's Quad Cinema, is about as funny and understated as its title.
The hustlers in question are not actually gay, mind you, just working-stiff Irish guys living in London and looking to make some easy money. Kenny (Glenn Mulhern) is recruited into the profession by his best friend Byron (Brendan Mackey), who has taken to providing oral sex for money to the patrons of a gay pub. Kenny proves to have such a knack for his new avocation that he causes his first client (noted actor and playwright Steven Berkoff) to have a fatal attack, thereby making him dead gay guy No. 1.
Unfortunately for viewers, there are eight dead gay guys to go, their demises resulting from the pair's ill-advised attempts to procure a large stash of money supposedly stashed in the mattress of one of their clients, a closeted Orthodox Jew. Among the more colorful figures involved are an angry dwarf with penis issues, a Pakistani cabdriver and a tougher-than-nails lesbian.
Director-screenwriter Lab Ky Mo attempts to enliven the frequently incoherent proceedings with a wide variety of stylistic tricks, most of which merely have the effect of spotlighting the paucity of wit on display. He has also elicited broad, over-the-top performances from the entire cast (not, as with the case of Mr. Berkoff, that it's a difficult task), but the net effect is more exhausting than entertaining.
- 10/24/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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