The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), in partnership with financier Yu Holdings, has launched a new initiative to spotlight China’s future stars of film, games and television and help grow their international presence.
Amanda Berry OBE, Chief Executive of BAFTA, announced the BAFTA Breakthrough China initiative today at the Shanghai IFilm Festival, alongside British actor Tom Hiddleston and philanthropist Wendy Yu, founder and CEO of Yu Holdings. The Avengers star Hiddleston will serve as an ambassador on the scheme.
A jury of Chinese and Brit industry experts will select the five ‘Breakthrough’ talents from across China to take part in the year-long mentoring programme. Their names will be announced at an event at The Peninsula Shanghai in October. The winners will then be flown to the UK to be introduced to British creatives and share their knowledge and experiences with their overseas peers.
BAFTA wants Chinese...
Amanda Berry OBE, Chief Executive of BAFTA, announced the BAFTA Breakthrough China initiative today at the Shanghai IFilm Festival, alongside British actor Tom Hiddleston and philanthropist Wendy Yu, founder and CEO of Yu Holdings. The Avengers star Hiddleston will serve as an ambassador on the scheme.
A jury of Chinese and Brit industry experts will select the five ‘Breakthrough’ talents from across China to take part in the year-long mentoring programme. Their names will be announced at an event at The Peninsula Shanghai in October. The winners will then be flown to the UK to be introduced to British creatives and share their knowledge and experiences with their overseas peers.
BAFTA wants Chinese...
- 6/21/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Paramount Pictures and Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road Pictures have set Patrick Osborne to develop to direct Monument Valley, hoping to launch a live action/CG hybrid family franchise based on the Ustwo Games’ international mobile game phenomenon. Osborne won the Best Animated Short Film Oscar for Feast and is currently directing Nimona for Fox and Blue Sky. The mobile game and its sequel take place in a surreal, Escher-esque landscape, where established laws of space and time do not apply. The film will send contemporary live-action characters into the game’s extraordinary, mind-bending world.
Goldsman is producing and Paramount President of Production Elizabeth Raposo and Weed Road President of Production Greg Lessans will oversee. They will now set a screenwriter to work closely with Osborne on the adaptation.
“Monument Valley is a one of a kind experience, at once small in its meditative, simple gameplay, as well as...
Goldsman is producing and Paramount President of Production Elizabeth Raposo and Weed Road President of Production Greg Lessans will oversee. They will now set a screenwriter to work closely with Osborne on the adaptation.
“Monument Valley is a one of a kind experience, at once small in its meditative, simple gameplay, as well as...
- 8/21/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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