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UPDATE: After today’s story that Creative England’s popular iFeatures scheme was looking at an uncertain future, Lady Macbeth producer Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly and director William Oldroyd got in touch to ask if they could send over a comment to voice their support for the program, which I’ve added to the end of this…

EXCLUSIVE: A new survey published today on the state of the UK's independent production sector has revealed the harsh challenges being faced by the country's indie producers. Among the eye-opening findings are that 75% of independent film producer respondees who have made 1-2 feature films earned less than $7,800…

EXCLUSIVE: A potential TV spin-off of British director Jonathan Glazer’s cult sci-fi feature Under The Skin has sparked a bidding war between the film’s original financier Silver Reel and studio A24. Based on a novel by Michel Faber, Under The Skin was director Glazer's first film in a decade when it landed in 2013…

UK funding body the British Film Institute (BFI) has published a study on how its 'Diversity Standards', the guidelines introduced in 2016 to improve diversity in film production, engaged with representation in 235 movies across a three-year period. The disclosed data is complex to draw concise conclusions from, but…

Tilda Swinton will receive a British Film Institute (BFI) Fellowship this year, joining the likes of Martin Scorsese and Akira Kurosawa, in recognition of her "her great contribution to film culture, independent film exhibition and philanthropy". Swinton will be awarded the prize at the BFI Chair's annual dinner…

Ammonite, the period romance pic starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan from God's Own Country filmmaker Francis Lee, received the highest individual production award from the British Film Institue's Film Fund this year. The pic from The King's Speech outfit See-Saw Films was awarded $1.74m (£1.3m) in production…

The British Film Institute has upped Ben Roberts to CEO, taking over from Amanda Nevill. He will start mid-February, 2020. The appointment, widely tipped, was made by BFI Chair and Warner Bros UK chief Josh Berger on behalf of the BFI's Board of Governors after a recruitment process that began last summer. As CEO of…

The British Film Insitute (BFI) has invested in David Abraham's production company Wonderhood Studios. The film body has made its first investment with the deal, via the UK Creative Content EIS Fund, which it launched earlier this summer in association with Calculus Capital and Stargrove Pictures. This comes after…

Secret Diary Of A Call Girl creator and Succession executive producer-writer Lucy Prebble has been awarded the 2019 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship, given in partnership with the BFI and Film4. Now in its seventh year, the UK fellowship awards a screenwriter £30,000 to explore the intersection between screenwriting…

The British Film Institute has launched the fourth edition of the Vision Awards, its financial support program for UK producers. The initiative will once again award up to $3.2m (£2.5m) in funding over two years, with maximum grants of $64,000 (£50,000) per year available to successful applicants. The organisation is…

The UK’s lead organization for film, the BFI, is ramping up efforts to find its next CEO after posting the job spec online, something it is obliged to do as a publicly-funded body. Incumbent CEO Amanda Nevill announced last month that she would be stepping aside next year after 16 years at the helm of the film finance…

The UK’s leading organization for film, the BFI, has launched its first overseas streaming service in the U.S. BFI Player Classics, a version of which is already available in the UK, will showcase Brit classics such as The Third Man, Brighton Rock, The Wicker Man and The Man Who Fell to Earth on The Roku Channel. The…