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PENGUIN LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE FILM COMPETITIONTO PROMOTE THE MOST CHILLING THRILLER OF THE YEARYour browser may not support display of this image.THE WOMAN WHO MISSING FOR FIVE YEARSTHE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR WHO FINDS HERAND THE SERIAL KILLER WHO WANTS THEM BOTH DEAD…Penguin is offering an exciting opportunity for budding filmmakers with [...]

Untrained Filmmaker Wins Top Award at the 2006 Imperial War Museum Student FilmFestivalA documentary produced by an English Literature student with no formal trainingin film production has been awarded ‘Winner of the Audience Poll’ in theImperial War Museum’s Sixth Annual Student Film Festival. Liberating Dachau,made by Genevieve Simms, who was [...]

UK REGIONAL CRITICS VOTE FOR THEIR FILM OF THE YEARANNUAL FILM AWARDS TO BE LAUNCHED AT JANUARY 2007 ‘CINEMA DAYS’ EVENT8 January 2007 – It was announced today by Cinema Days that UK regional film journalists are to vote for their film of the year. The new accolade – “The [...]

Campo Viejo – making film and wine go hand in handEnjoy a complimentary glass of Campo Viejo, the UK’s favourite Rioja, for the opening night of Notes on a Scandal at participating Picturehouse cinemas across the UK on Friday 2nd February 2007. Starring award-winning actresses, Cate Blanchett and Dame Judi [...]

BBC Worldwide has joined forces with multi-award-winning independent wildlife filmmakers, Mark Deeble & Victoria Stone to co-produce its third wildlife feature film, Distant Thunder.Combining Deeble & Stone’s incomparable storytelling, their eye for the extraordinary and the very latest in cinematic technical innovation, Distant Thunder promises a natural history epic of [...]

‘TOUR OF THE HOUSE’ SCOOPS MOBILE MOVIE AWARD- Winner of Nokia Shorts 2006 Handset category revealed -A short film which takes the audience on a house tour with a criminal twist was announced as the winner of the Nokia Shorts 2006 Handset category at the Raindance Film Festival last night.The [...]

UKscreen would like to announce an increase of server space for showreel, music and film uploads to members.Showreel uploads:Now all members can upload a showreel in different sizes.Verified member: up to 1 MBSilver member: up to 2 MBGold member: up to 5 MBPremium member: up to 10 MBExtraPremium member: up [...]

The regional and country finalists for The National Lottery Awards 2006 have just been announced, and some of the UK’s most innovative film projects will now be competing in a public vote against a wide range of Lottery funded initiatives to decide the UK’s favourite National Lottery funded projects.The National [...]

Weak culture body needs more muscleA lack of funding and resources are seriously undermining the London Cultural Consortium’s (LCC) potential to influence and promote arts, heritage and sports in the capital, a London Assembly report says today1.So far, the LCC has proved to be merely a ‘talking shop’, making little [...]

12-year-old British schoolgirl to play Lyra in adaptation of the first of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy.Film set for November 16, 2007 release dateNew Line Cinema has officially greenlit production on The Golden Compass, the highly anticipated adaptation of the first of author Philip Pullman’s bestselling His Dark Materials [...]