More than half of all competition titles directed by women.
Switzerland’s Zurich Film Festival (Zff) has unveiled the full programme for its 2020 edition, which is set to go ahead as a physical event from September 24 to October 4.
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The 16th edition of the festival will comprise 165 films, of which 23 are world premieres and more than half of the competition titles are directed by women. Zff also revealed that Oscar-winning UK actress Olivia Colman will receive an honorary award and Johnny Depp is set to attend the festival with a new documentary.
The feature...
Switzerland’s Zurich Film Festival (Zff) has unveiled the full programme for its 2020 edition, which is set to go ahead as a physical event from September 24 to October 4.
Scroll down for list of competition titles
The 16th edition of the festival will comprise 165 films, of which 23 are world premieres and more than half of the competition titles are directed by women. Zff also revealed that Oscar-winning UK actress Olivia Colman will receive an honorary award and Johnny Depp is set to attend the festival with a new documentary.
The feature...
- 9/10/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The projects have received between £10,000 - £80,000.
The BFI has increased its funding commitment to the BFI Doc Society Fund by 50% from an annual £1m to £1.5m per year.
The organisation had earlier this year committed to injecting £1m annually into the newly-formed fund, which has taken over all of the BFI’s production funding activities for documentaries.
A total of £650,000 of that amount was ring-fenced for production grants, with the remaining £350,000 set aside for initiatives including four regional outreach events a year, an edit lab, staff costs and further events.
That amount has now increased to £1.776m to cover a period of 15 months,...
The BFI has increased its funding commitment to the BFI Doc Society Fund by 50% from an annual £1m to £1.5m per year.
The organisation had earlier this year committed to injecting £1m annually into the newly-formed fund, which has taken over all of the BFI’s production funding activities for documentaries.
A total of £650,000 of that amount was ring-fenced for production grants, with the remaining £350,000 set aside for initiatives including four regional outreach events a year, an edit lab, staff costs and further events.
That amount has now increased to £1.776m to cover a period of 15 months,...
- 11/23/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Feature documentaries from stars including Tilda Swinton and Alan Cumming as well as producers such as Searching For Sugarman’s John Battsek and Shooting Bigfoot’s Morgan Matthews are some of the high-profile projects searching for funding at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Major broadcasters including HBO and the BBC as well as a slew of European networks have come on board a raft of early-stage docs, which are searching for final funding at Sheffield Doc/Fest’s MeetMarket. The marketplace, which is whittled down from around 550 projects, entices over 300 decision makers including Netflix and YouTube as well as distributors including Neon, Submarine and Cinetic.
We Need To Talk About Kevin star Swinton’s On Drumduan Hill, which she will direct, is arguably the most high-profile project on offer at the event, held in the UK city between June 7 – 12. The film, which is produced by Lily Ford with a...
Major broadcasters including HBO and the BBC as well as a slew of European networks have come on board a raft of early-stage docs, which are searching for final funding at Sheffield Doc/Fest’s MeetMarket. The marketplace, which is whittled down from around 550 projects, entices over 300 decision makers including Netflix and YouTube as well as distributors including Neon, Submarine and Cinetic.
We Need To Talk About Kevin star Swinton’s On Drumduan Hill, which she will direct, is arguably the most high-profile project on offer at the event, held in the UK city between June 7 – 12. The film, which is produced by Lily Ford with a...
- 6/11/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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