Tag: Film4
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An oral history of Film4: senior executives talk four decades of transforming British film | Features – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] In November 1982, Channel 4 — the UK’s fourth TV channel — burst onto the scene, with a mission to offer a distinct and innovative alternative to the television diet. Entrusted by founding Channel 4 CEO Jeremy Isaacs with steering the drama output was David Rose, a veteran executive who had made his name…
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Film4 to receive outstanding contribution to UK film honour at 2023 Big Screen Awards | News – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Film4 is to be honoured with the special recognition award for outstanding contribution to UK film at Screen International’s Big Screen Awards 2023. The award recognises the achievements of a company or individual whose contributions to UK film have had a significant impact on the reputation of the industry, both locally and internationally. It…
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Inside Film4: Exec team talk development, production strategy, supporting UK producers and the importance of risk-taking – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] It has been a lustrous 2023 for Film4. Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees Of Inisherin scored four Baftas from 10 nominations, including outstanding British film. Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest and Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex clinched the grand prize and Un Certain Regard prizes at Cannes, respectively. Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things…
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Film4 promotes Farhana Bhula to head of creative (exclusive) | News – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Film4 has promoted Farhana Bhula to head of creative, filling the role vacated by Ollie Madden since his move to director of Film4. Bhula moves up from senior commissioning executive. She joined Film4 in January last year from the BFI, where she had been a senior development and production executive at the Film Fund.…
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Clint Dyer, Roy Williams board Film4 football drama ‘Three Degrees’ (exclusive) | News – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] UK creative duo Clint Dyer and Roy Williams have lined up their next project, feature Three Degrees, which is currently in development with Film4, and tells the true story of three Black footballers who transformed the fortunes of West Bromwich Albion football team. UK actor Lenny Henry is attached as an executive producer. Dyer…
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Amrou Al-Kadhi’s queer love story ‘Layla’ wraps UK shoot for Film4, BFI; first-look revealed (exclusive) | News – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Layla, the debut feature of 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow Amrou Al-Kadhi, about the romance between a struggling British-Palestinian drag performer and a successful white gay man, wraps this week after a six-week shoot in east London. The film is backed by Film4 and the BFI and is produced by UK producer Savannah James-Bayly of Fox…