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Daniel Hui, Martika Ramirez Escobar among Purin Pictures autumn 2024 grant selection
Two projects from Malaysia about legendary filmmaker P Ramlee also selected.
Hungarian 30% film tax incentive extended for six more years
Hungary has reached $910m annual film production spend.
First Budapest International Film Festival launches with independent Hungarian fund (exclusive)
The fund will support one Hungarian feature and one short, from script to release.
Edith Wharton adaptation ‘The Custom Of The Country’, directed by Josie Rourke, wins German funding
Sofia Coppola had previously been planning to adapt The Custom of the Country as a series for Apple TV+.
Seven talking points from Rome’s MIA market
The Rome film and TV event has emerged as an important co-production, pitching, sales and conference market.
A “generational shift” is pushing UK producers closer to international partners, says BFI’s Mia Bays
The roundtable discussion took place during the Dinard Festival of British & Irish Film.
Horror films comprise 50% of Screen Australia’s latest feature investments
Australia horor titles such as ‘Talk To Me’ have done well at the international box office.
Independent Film Tax Credit gets official greenlight from UK government
The BFI certification unit will begin accepting applications on October 30.
‘Riddick 4: Furya’ starring Vin Diesel secures €2m funding from Germany’s FFF Bayern
Fourth instalment of David Twohy’s space western will largely shoot in Bavaria, as well as Spain and the UK,
Greece further delays formal reopening of 40% tax rebate due to lack of funds
The newly-created HFAC-Creative Greece said it is waiting for funding to reopen the popular tax rebate.
Matt Dillon, Riley Keough and Isaach de Bankolé to star in Claire Denis’ ‘Le Cri Des Gardes’
Arte France Cinema is co-producing projects by Claire Denis, Arnaud Desplechin, Yann Gonzalez and Zou Jing.
Finnish film industry strongly protests proposed budget cuts
Finnish promotion and development agency facing 50% budget cut.
Ireland receives 8% tax incentive uplift for lower-budget local film production
Local films budgeted under €20m will now receive a 40% tax break.
BFI’s Harriet Finney and industry update on progress for the UK indie tax credit
“They’re engaging very quickly,” said Finney at yesterday’s ’Screen Summit 2024: The Future of UK Film’.
“You realise how many opportunities are out there,” say producers of impact of UK Global Screen Fund
”The UKGSF is about our outward-looking perspective on the business – this is not about the UK.”
Five actions could revive struggling indie UK film sector, according to British Screen Forum report
They include galvanising private equity investment and improved access to data.
Italian minister outlines why attracting international projects is a top priority under revised tax credit (exclusive)
Lucia Borgonzoni outlines key changes including reforms around use of AI.
Italy revises international tax credit, maintaining headline 40% rate and banning relief for AI spend
Italy is one of the first countries to exclude AI costs from financial incentives.
Roy Keane football drama ‘Saipan’, Karim Aïnouz’s ‘Rosebushpruning’ among latest UK Global Screen Fund recipients
’Behind The Palm Trees’ from The Bureau and ‘Dust’ from Bêtes Sauvages have also received backing.
‘Babylon Berlin’, Sandra Hüller, Isabelle Huppert projects receive German funding
The fifth and final season of Babylon Berlin received €2m from Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.
