World’s best documentary film maker introduces free screeningThe director of the world’s best documentary film is to visit Glasgow next week for a special free screening of his most celebrated work.Arunas Matelis’s remarkable documentary, ‘Before Flying Back to the Earth’ topped the list of the 50 best documentaries [...]

Oscar-nominated screenwriter chooses winner of South West Screenwriting CompetitionTuesday 16 October 2007, Bristol, UKOscar-nominated screenwriter Bill Nicholson (‘Gladiator’, ‘Shadowlands’, ‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age’) today announced Patrick Evans as the winner of South West Screen’s ‘Screenwriter Development Competition’.129 budding writers from the South West of England region submitted screenplays for the [...]

Young filmmakers hail the death of cinema and DVDTomorrow’s filmmakers predict a shift to online film distributionLondon, 10 July: New research released today by Vividas, the provider of full-screen video streaming technology, finds that 83 per cent of the next generation of filmmakers expect most film distribution to be online. [...]

Screen East launches £2.25 millionContent Investment Fund at the Cannes Film FestivalRegional Screen Agency, Screen East launched an exciting new £2.25 million Content Investment Fund at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday 19 May with internationally celebrated director Michael Winterbottom and producer Andrew Eaton officially announcing the scheme which is [...]

Screen East launches £2.25 million Content Investment Fund at the Cannes Film FestivalRegional Screen Agency, Screen East launches an exciting new £2.25 million Content Investment Fund at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday 19 May with internationally celebrated director Michael Winterbottom and producer Andrew Eaton officially announcing the scheme which [...]

Simultaneous release of film in Cinema and DVD will boost studio revenues – but optimal distribution strategy differs between countriesFilm studios in the US can boost revenues by 16 if films are released simultaneously in cinemas, on rental DVD and through video-on-demand (VOD), a global study shows for the first [...]

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.One of the most highly regarded film directors in modern cinema has finally joined the top echelon of the film industry – Martin Scorsese picked up the Best Director Oscar at this year’s ceremony at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. His [...]

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.Representatives from the Oscar-nominated Foreign Language films attended a question and answer session at the Academy’s Beverly Hills headquarters on Saturday, a day before the Oscars..After showing clips from the films, the directors answered questions from the thousand-strong audience at the [...]

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.The big event in the film awards calendar, the day before the Oscars, is the Independent Spirit Awards, which honour low budget films, made outside the major studio system. The event, held in a marquee on the beach in Santa Monica [...]

Jason Korsner reporting from Los Angeles. Photos available at http://www.ukscreen.com/gallery.htm?user=jkinla.“It all started with a short,” the Oscar-winning short (Teenage Father, 1978) – and Oscar-nominated feature (Ray, 2004) – director Taylor Hackford to an audience of more than a thousand people in Hollywood, gathered to watch this year’s ten Oscar-nominated short [...]