Husam Sam Asi is a film journalist, TV producer and neuroscientist. He founded UKScreen in 1999, produced and presented BBC Cinematic on BBC Arabic, and was a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and a Golden Globe voter until 2022. He is the founder of Resala Productions. More at husamasi.com.
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,…
Booktrust Launches Short Story Competition To Find Teenage Judges 21 May 07Booktrust have launched a UK wide search to find five teenagers to join their Booktrust Teenage Prize panel.
Search Is On For UK's Slam Champion 22 May 07Theatre Royal Stratford East from 27th of June – 1st of JulyTheatre Royal Stratford East is looking for the hottest Spoken Word artists…
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…
CASTING IS ON FOR ENGLAND’S MOST ENTERPRISING ARTS ENTREPRENEURSNational Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship, Northern Edge, and Arts Council England to select 40 social entrepreneurs to take centre stageApplications now being acceptedAspiring entrepreneurs…
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…
The BBC today launched New Music Shorts 2007 – an initiative offering aspiring filmmakers a £5,000 budget to make a music-based short film with a professional production company and have it premiered…
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…
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,…
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…