Producer Loran Dunn to oversee new initiative.
The British Council and BFI are partnering to offer three filmmaking teams £10,500 to fully-fund a short film project that will focus on an Lgbtq+ subject.
The programme #MOREFilms4Freedom is inviting applications from experienced UK-based producers that will pitch projects with an international outlook, specifically with a focus on Africa and the Middle East.
The core members of the teams will need to have realised two or more short films with industry recognition. The films should explore Lgbtq+ topics related to intersectionality, global human rights, and diaspora identity.
Producer Loran Dunn (A Deal With The Universe...
The British Council and BFI are partnering to offer three filmmaking teams £10,500 to fully-fund a short film project that will focus on an Lgbtq+ subject.
The programme #MOREFilms4Freedom is inviting applications from experienced UK-based producers that will pitch projects with an international outlook, specifically with a focus on Africa and the Middle East.
The core members of the teams will need to have realised two or more short films with industry recognition. The films should explore Lgbtq+ topics related to intersectionality, global human rights, and diaspora identity.
Producer Loran Dunn (A Deal With The Universe...
- 7/9/2019
- by Tofe Ayeni
- ScreenDaily
Founder and managing director of the UK’s Peccadillo Pictures awarded last night.
Tom Abell, founder and managing director of the UK’s Peccadillo Pictures, was presented last night (April 11) with the inaugural Iris Fellowship, honouring those who have made a significant contribution to the Lgbt+ film industry.
The award is an extension of the Iris Prize, which awards £30,000 annually to the best short film shown at Cardiff’s Lgbt+ Iris Prize Film Festival, with entries selected by multiple international partner festivals, and £20,000 to the best British short. The prizes are supported annually by a £50,000 donation by the Michael Bishop Foundation.
Tom Abell, founder and managing director of the UK’s Peccadillo Pictures, was presented last night (April 11) with the inaugural Iris Fellowship, honouring those who have made a significant contribution to the Lgbt+ film industry.
The award is an extension of the Iris Prize, which awards £30,000 annually to the best short film shown at Cardiff’s Lgbt+ Iris Prize Film Festival, with entries selected by multiple international partner festivals, and £20,000 to the best British short. The prizes are supported annually by a £50,000 donation by the Michael Bishop Foundation.
- 4/12/2019
- by Charles Gant
- ScreenDaily
’Wonder Park’, ’Wild Rose’ among other new openers.
Lionsgate’s superhero title Hellboy will look to overcome predominantly negative reviews for the film in its first weekend at the UK box office.
After a reviews embargo that lifted at 10pm UK time on Wednesday 10, the film opened wide around the country yesterday (Thursday 11).
Directed by Neil Marshall, the film is based on the Dark Horse Comics character, who battles an undead sorceress trying to destroy the world. Stranger Things star David Harbour plays the title role, alongside Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane, Daniel Dae Kim and Thomas Haden Church.
Lionsgate’s superhero title Hellboy will look to overcome predominantly negative reviews for the film in its first weekend at the UK box office.
After a reviews embargo that lifted at 10pm UK time on Wednesday 10, the film opened wide around the country yesterday (Thursday 11).
Directed by Neil Marshall, the film is based on the Dark Horse Comics character, who battles an undead sorceress trying to destroy the world. Stranger Things star David Harbour plays the title role, alongside Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane, Daniel Dae Kim and Thomas Haden Church.
- 4/12/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Waiting for a ship to come in, in A Deal With The Universe
Jason Barker's groundbreaking documentary A Deal With The Universe, about fertility treatment, being a transgender parent and the struggles that he and his partner Tracy went through to have a child, brings a refreshing human angle to some highly contested issues. In the first part of our recent interview he and I discussed his process as a filmmaker, his reasons for making the film and the importance of telling positive stories about trans people's lives. This part begins as we approached the subject of how other trans people have reacted to the film and what they thought about his decision to try and get pregnant himself.
Jason looking out at the universe
“Our community have changed a lot," he says. "I think when I was pregnant I had one comment from one trans guy. It didn...
Jason Barker's groundbreaking documentary A Deal With The Universe, about fertility treatment, being a transgender parent and the struggles that he and his partner Tracy went through to have a child, brings a refreshing human angle to some highly contested issues. In the first part of our recent interview he and I discussed his process as a filmmaker, his reasons for making the film and the importance of telling positive stories about trans people's lives. This part begins as we approached the subject of how other trans people have reacted to the film and what they thought about his decision to try and get pregnant himself.
Jason looking out at the universe
“Our community have changed a lot," he says. "I think when I was pregnant I had one comment from one trans guy. It didn...
- 4/11/2019
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Testing times in A Deal With The Universe
Back in the early years of this century, Jason Barker and his partner Tracey began trying for a child. That might seem like an everyday story, and in many ways it is, but the sheer number of obstacles they had to overcome on their journey was something else, with one disappointment after another. Eventually, with Tracey unable to take it any further, Jason decided that - as a trans man - he would just have to do it himself. His film documenting their experiences, A Deal With The Universe, is now getting a cinema release and is having a big impact of audiences and critics alike.
Jason and I first met in 2012, when he was a programmer at BFI Flare and I was part of a panel there on documentary Intersexion. We both agreed that it was good to reconnect for a...
Back in the early years of this century, Jason Barker and his partner Tracey began trying for a child. That might seem like an everyday story, and in many ways it is, but the sheer number of obstacles they had to overcome on their journey was something else, with one disappointment after another. Eventually, with Tracey unable to take it any further, Jason decided that - as a trans man - he would just have to do it himself. His film documenting their experiences, A Deal With The Universe, is now getting a cinema release and is having a big impact of audiences and critics alike.
Jason and I first met in 2012, when he was a programmer at BFI Flare and I was part of a panel there on documentary Intersexion. We both agreed that it was good to reconnect for a...
- 4/9/2019
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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