Frontières International Co-Production Market – back to an in-person event after four online editions – has unveiled this year’s projects, including 18 titles in its official selection, all in advanced development stages or now financing.
Ranging from the highly personal to absolutely outlandish, they make for a varied lineup. It is packed by female-centered stories, from “Camp,” about a woman so dependent on her new friends that she fails to notice their sinister agenda, to “Beasts of Prey,” “Bugul Noz,” “Jane” or Canadian offering “Bloody Bunny” by Kat and Karissa Strain.
“There simply aren’t enough women in the film industry, especially the indie film scene in Canada, for us to draw on as mentors and collaborators. We hope ‘Bloody Bunny’ can play a part in the change we would like to see,” they said, calling it a film “for women by women.”
Mètis filmmaker Laura Tremblay will produce, while the directors...
Ranging from the highly personal to absolutely outlandish, they make for a varied lineup. It is packed by female-centered stories, from “Camp,” about a woman so dependent on her new friends that she fails to notice their sinister agenda, to “Beasts of Prey,” “Bugul Noz,” “Jane” or Canadian offering “Bloody Bunny” by Kat and Karissa Strain.
“There simply aren’t enough women in the film industry, especially the indie film scene in Canada, for us to draw on as mentors and collaborators. We hope ‘Bloody Bunny’ can play a part in the change we would like to see,” they said, calling it a film “for women by women.”
Mètis filmmaker Laura Tremblay will produce, while the directors...
- 7/19/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Eleven of overall 24 projects directed or co-directed by women.
The first project from Palestine and Jordan has been selected for Frontières Co-Production Market organised by Fantasia International Film Festival with the participation of the Cannes Marché.
Said Zagha’s Weedestine (Pal-Jor-Swe) takes its place among the market titles alongside: Beasts Of Prey (It-Den) by Andrea Corsini; Bloody Bunny (Can) by Kat and Karissa Strain; Foxblood (Can) by Benjamin Steiger Levine; and Quantum Suicide (Phil-Jap-Can) by Mikhail Red.
The roster includes Space Beers (Neth) by Bouke van Veen and Maurice Schutte; Stray (UK) by Zam Salim; Surgat (USA) by Michael Borowiec and Sam Marine; and Switchback (Can) by Melanie Jones.
The first project from Palestine and Jordan has been selected for Frontières Co-Production Market organised by Fantasia International Film Festival with the participation of the Cannes Marché.
Said Zagha’s Weedestine (Pal-Jor-Swe) takes its place among the market titles alongside: Beasts Of Prey (It-Den) by Andrea Corsini; Bloody Bunny (Can) by Kat and Karissa Strain; Foxblood (Can) by Benjamin Steiger Levine; and Quantum Suicide (Phil-Jap-Can) by Mikhail Red.
The roster includes Space Beers (Neth) by Bouke van Veen and Maurice Schutte; Stray (UK) by Zam Salim; Surgat (USA) by Michael Borowiec and Sam Marine; and Switchback (Can) by Melanie Jones.
- 5/24/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
A survivor of the Lampedusa tragedy speaks in Morgan Knibbe's Shipwreck
The Glasgow Short Film Festival drew to a close today with its awards ceremony. Duncan Cowles received the Scottish Award for Directed By Tweedie, whilst special mention went to Cailleach. Morgan Knibbe won the Bill Douglas Award for best International Short Film for Shipwreck, about a survivor of the sinking that saw hundreds of Eritreans drown off the coast of Lampedusa.
The Channel 4 Innovation in Storytelling award went to Monkey Love Experiments directors Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson, whilst the International Audience Award was won by Don Hertzfeld's World Of Tomorrow, though Don himself (best know for providing voices in The Simpsons) was incommunicado and does not yet know of his success. The Scottish Audience award was won by Zam Salim for Dropping Off Michael and accepted by writer and producer James Price, who was extremely excited about their success.
The Glasgow Short Film Festival drew to a close today with its awards ceremony. Duncan Cowles received the Scottish Award for Directed By Tweedie, whilst special mention went to Cailleach. Morgan Knibbe won the Bill Douglas Award for best International Short Film for Shipwreck, about a survivor of the sinking that saw hundreds of Eritreans drown off the coast of Lampedusa.
The Channel 4 Innovation in Storytelling award went to Monkey Love Experiments directors Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson, whilst the International Audience Award was won by Don Hertzfeld's World Of Tomorrow, though Don himself (best know for providing voices in The Simpsons) was incommunicado and does not yet know of his success. The Scottish Audience award was won by Zam Salim for Dropping Off Michael and accepted by writer and producer James Price, who was extremely excited about their success.
- 3/15/2015
- by Jennie Kermode and Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
New projects from Screen Stars of Tomorrow, playwrights, TV talent.
UK low-budget filmmaking scheme iFeatures has selected 18 projects (below) for its next development slate.
The scheme, backed by Creative England, BFI Film Fund, BBC Films and Creative Skillset, selected 18 - instead of the usual 16 - feature-length projects from more than 400 submissions.
Three films will be ‘greenlit’ in March 2015 at budgets of £350,000.
The roster of writing and directing talent includes Lynsey Miller, Hope Dickson Leach and Dan Gitsham, all recent Screen Stars of Tomorrow; Rachel De-lahay, winner of 2013 Evening Standard’s Most Promising Playwright; Dominic Leclerc, director of Skins and The Village; Alice Birch, winner of this year’s George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright; Olivia Poulet, star of The Thick Of It; BAFTA Scotland winner Zam Salim; Broadcast Hotshots Abby Ajayi and Alex Kalymnios; and William Oldroyd whose short Best won the 2013 Sundance London Short Film Competition.
Producers include Nfts graduates Jessica Levick and Fodhla Cronin...
UK low-budget filmmaking scheme iFeatures has selected 18 projects (below) for its next development slate.
The scheme, backed by Creative England, BFI Film Fund, BBC Films and Creative Skillset, selected 18 - instead of the usual 16 - feature-length projects from more than 400 submissions.
Three films will be ‘greenlit’ in March 2015 at budgets of £350,000.
The roster of writing and directing talent includes Lynsey Miller, Hope Dickson Leach and Dan Gitsham, all recent Screen Stars of Tomorrow; Rachel De-lahay, winner of 2013 Evening Standard’s Most Promising Playwright; Dominic Leclerc, director of Skins and The Village; Alice Birch, winner of this year’s George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright; Olivia Poulet, star of The Thick Of It; BAFTA Scotland winner Zam Salim; Broadcast Hotshots Abby Ajayi and Alex Kalymnios; and William Oldroyd whose short Best won the 2013 Sundance London Short Film Competition.
Producers include Nfts graduates Jessica Levick and Fodhla Cronin...
- 6/30/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Paul Brannigan, Chloe Pirrie, Rowan Athale, Ed Barratt, Nisha Parti among selected.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced its first crop of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits.
The BAFTA Breakthrough Brits – chosen by a jury of industry experts – were named today as: actors Paul Brannigan, James Floyd, Tom Holland, Ade Oyefeso, Chloe Pirrie, and Sharon Rooney; writers/directors Rowan Athale and Zam Salim; writer Dominic Mitchell; game developers Oliver Clarke, Mitu Khandaker and Dan Pearce; game designers Rex Crowle and Sophia George; broadcaster Arthur Williams; and producers Ed Barratt and Nisha Parti.
The candidates will be invited to a day of networking sessions and talks at BAFTA’s London headquarters.
A number of the candidates have previously been selected as Screen Stars of Tomorrow, ,including Brannigan, Floyd, Holland, Pirrie, Oyefeso, Athale and Salim.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced its first crop of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits.
The BAFTA Breakthrough Brits – chosen by a jury of industry experts – were named today as: actors Paul Brannigan, James Floyd, Tom Holland, Ade Oyefeso, Chloe Pirrie, and Sharon Rooney; writers/directors Rowan Athale and Zam Salim; writer Dominic Mitchell; game developers Oliver Clarke, Mitu Khandaker and Dan Pearce; game designers Rex Crowle and Sophia George; broadcaster Arthur Williams; and producers Ed Barratt and Nisha Parti.
The candidates will be invited to a day of networking sessions and talks at BAFTA’s London headquarters.
A number of the candidates have previously been selected as Screen Stars of Tomorrow, ,including Brannigan, Floyd, Holland, Pirrie, Oyefeso, Athale and Salim.
- 9/26/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Outsider Expected To Replace George Entwistle At BBC Speculation about who will replace George Entwistle as director general of the BBC is growing in the UK. BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten has promised the selection won’t be as drawn out as it was when it came to naming Entwistle in the first place. While some editorials have suggested the likes of BBC head of news Helen Boaden, who is on sabbatical owing to her own involvement in the corporation’s Jimmy Savile scandal, The Guardian suggests that Patten will favor outside contenders, even if the ongoing crisis might make the job look a little unattractive. Entwistle’s shock resignation after just 54 days as director general came earlier this month, as the BBC’s current affairs program Newsnight became embroiled in a second child sex scandal after the Savile affair, when it made false allegations against former Margaret Thatcher adviser Lord McAlpine.
- 11/20/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Last night, Edith Bowman played host to the British Academy Scotland Awards 2012, celebrating the year’s best and most promising talent in Scotland.
Previously known as the BAFTA Scotland Awards, the nominations were announced last month, with Ken Loach’s The Angel’s Share leading the pack, having taken home the Jury Prize at Cannes back in the spring.
The results have officially been announced, and Loach’s film didn’t disappoint, taking home the Best Writer award for Paul Laverty and Best Actor/Actress in the Film category for Paul Brannigan.
Zam Salim came away with the Best Director and Best Feature Film awards for his feature directorial debut, Up There, which was released in UK cinemas on Friday – if it’s playing in a theatre near you, this should definitely be encouragement enough to go and seek it out, if you haven’t done so already.
The great...
Previously known as the BAFTA Scotland Awards, the nominations were announced last month, with Ken Loach’s The Angel’s Share leading the pack, having taken home the Jury Prize at Cannes back in the spring.
The results have officially been announced, and Loach’s film didn’t disappoint, taking home the Best Writer award for Paul Laverty and Best Actor/Actress in the Film category for Paul Brannigan.
Zam Salim came away with the Best Director and Best Feature Film awards for his feature directorial debut, Up There, which was released in UK cinemas on Friday – if it’s playing in a theatre near you, this should definitely be encouragement enough to go and seek it out, if you haven’t done so already.
The great...
- 11/19/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Amour | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 | Mental | Up There | Hit So Hard | Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet | Happy Happy | The Pool | Son Of Sardar
Amour (12A)
(Michael Haneke, 2012, Aus/Fra/Ger) Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, 127 mins
Most romantic stories are beginnings; this is the endgame – the "till death us do part", as experienced by a cultured, elderly French couple after the wife's stroke. Call it a last slow dance in Paris. Watching body, mind and possibly love slowly diminish in their claustrophobic apartment, Haneke's gaze is stately and unflinching. However, there's also a slight remove, making this less emotional than you'd expect but rich in deeper themes.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (12A)
(Bill Condon, 2012, Us) Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner. 115 mins
The love/hate teenage supernatural saga comes to a spectacular/preposterous climax, for better or worse. Bella's enjoyment of her newfound vampire skills is dented...
Amour (12A)
(Michael Haneke, 2012, Aus/Fra/Ger) Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, 127 mins
Most romantic stories are beginnings; this is the endgame – the "till death us do part", as experienced by a cultured, elderly French couple after the wife's stroke. Call it a last slow dance in Paris. Watching body, mind and possibly love slowly diminish in their claustrophobic apartment, Haneke's gaze is stately and unflinching. However, there's also a slight remove, making this less emotional than you'd expect but rich in deeper themes.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (12A)
(Bill Condon, 2012, Us) Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner. 115 mins
The love/hate teenage supernatural saga comes to a spectacular/preposterous climax, for better or worse. Bella's enjoyment of her newfound vampire skills is dented...
- 11/17/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Talk about yer dead-end job. Meet Martin, who died a few years ago, and now works as a “carer” for the newly deceased in the bureaucracy that awaits us after we kick the bucket but before we’re allowed “up there.” There’s no mention or even hint of a “down there,” which is probably the most cheerful thing about this bleakly bitter and super sly black comedy. Burn Gorman (Torchwood) is poignant and very funny, in the driest sort of way, as pale, sad Martin, shuffling around Glasgow in his too-big suit, just trying to pass the endless time, waiting for people to open doors (that stuff about being able to just pass through walls and doors is nonsense, it turns out), and hanging around the hospital for new souls to escort through the admission paperwork the afterlife requires. It’s like being on the dole: gotta check in every week,...
- 11/16/2012
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Zam Salim's film about ghosts caught in purgatory is good-looking, but feels like an overstretched short
British first-timer Zam Salim has made a quirky film, but ultimately it looks like an idea for a short stretched to breaking point. Burn Gorman plays Martin, an ordinary guy who dies and then discovers – with a glum stoicism – that dead people are required to hang around for a bit in this world; like ghosts they are unseen by the living, but unlike ghosts they cannot walk through solid matter and if they want to hitch a ride in a car they have to nip in and out while the door is open. Martin has to prove to some bland bureaucracy that he has adjusted to the change before being allowed "up there" and part of his remedial activity programme is shepherding the newly dead, and helping them with their transition through their transition.
British first-timer Zam Salim has made a quirky film, but ultimately it looks like an idea for a short stretched to breaking point. Burn Gorman plays Martin, an ordinary guy who dies and then discovers – with a glum stoicism – that dead people are required to hang around for a bit in this world; like ghosts they are unseen by the living, but unlike ghosts they cannot walk through solid matter and if they want to hitch a ride in a car they have to nip in and out while the door is open. Martin has to prove to some bland bureaucracy that he has adjusted to the change before being allowed "up there" and part of his remedial activity programme is shepherding the newly dead, and helping them with their transition through their transition.
- 11/16/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Zam Salim's film about ghosts caught in purgatory is good-looking, but feels like an overstretched short
British first-timer Zam Salim has made a quirky film, but ultimately it looks like an idea for a short stretched to breaking point. Burn Gorman plays Martin, an ordinary guy who dies and then discovers – with a glum stoicism – that dead people are required to hang around for a bit in this world; like ghosts they are unseen by the living, but unlike ghosts they cannot walk through solid matter and if they want to hitch a ride in a car they have to nip in and out while the door is open. Martin has to prove to some bland bureaucracy that he has adjusted to the change before being allowed "up there" and part of his remedial activity programme is shepherding the newly dead, and helping them with their transition through their transition.
British first-timer Zam Salim has made a quirky film, but ultimately it looks like an idea for a short stretched to breaking point. Burn Gorman plays Martin, an ordinary guy who dies and then discovers – with a glum stoicism – that dead people are required to hang around for a bit in this world; like ghosts they are unseen by the living, but unlike ghosts they cannot walk through solid matter and if they want to hitch a ride in a car they have to nip in and out while the door is open. Martin has to prove to some bland bureaucracy that he has adjusted to the change before being allowed "up there" and part of his remedial activity programme is shepherding the newly dead, and helping them with their transition through their transition.
- 11/15/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Zam Salim's film about ghosts caught in purgatory is good-looking, but feels like an overstretched short
British first-timer Zam Salim has made a quirky film, but ultimately it looks like an idea for a short stretched to breaking point. Burn Gorman plays Martin, an ordinary guy who dies and then discovers – with a glum stoicism – that dead people are required to hang around for a bit in this world; like ghosts they are unseen by the living, but unlike ghosts they cannot walk through solid matter and if they want to hitch a ride in a car they have to nip in and out while the door is open. Martin has to prove to some bland bureaucracy that he has adjusted to the change before being allowed "up there" and part of his remedial activity programme is shepherding the newly dead, and helping them with their transition through their transition.
British first-timer Zam Salim has made a quirky film, but ultimately it looks like an idea for a short stretched to breaking point. Burn Gorman plays Martin, an ordinary guy who dies and then discovers – with a glum stoicism – that dead people are required to hang around for a bit in this world; like ghosts they are unseen by the living, but unlike ghosts they cannot walk through solid matter and if they want to hitch a ride in a car they have to nip in and out while the door is open. Martin has to prove to some bland bureaucracy that he has adjusted to the change before being allowed "up there" and part of his remedial activity programme is shepherding the newly dead, and helping them with their transition through their transition.
- 11/15/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Formerly known as the BAFTA Scotland Awards, the nominations for this year’s British Academy Scotland Awards 2012 have been announced, with the ever-brilliant Edith Bowman officially set to host the awards ceremony next month.
Leading the pack with four nominations to its name is Ken Loach’s The Angel’s Share, which took home the Jury Prize at Cannes earlier this year.
Following closely behind with two nominations each are Kevin Bridges and Zam Salim, the latter nominated in both the Best Director and Best Feature Film categories for the forthcoming, Up There, which will be released on 16th November in the UK.
The Scotland-born Bowman has a wealth of experience that makes her a perfect fit for the awards, having presented pretty much every major music festival the UK has to offer through her career, along with hosting the Q Awards back in 2005 on BBC Radio 1.
“I am delighted...
Leading the pack with four nominations to its name is Ken Loach’s The Angel’s Share, which took home the Jury Prize at Cannes earlier this year.
Following closely behind with two nominations each are Kevin Bridges and Zam Salim, the latter nominated in both the Best Director and Best Feature Film categories for the forthcoming, Up There, which will be released on 16th November in the UK.
The Scotland-born Bowman has a wealth of experience that makes her a perfect fit for the awards, having presented pretty much every major music festival the UK has to offer through her career, along with hosting the Q Awards back in 2005 on BBC Radio 1.
“I am delighted...
- 10/25/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Back in 2008, Zam Salim created a short film called Laid Off. A critical smash and a minor YouTube sensation, it told the tale of a man that had died but lived on in an earth-bound purgatory until he was worthy of going up to heaven. Here today is the first trailer for the feature length version, Up There, starring Game Of Thrones/Torchwood/The Dark Knight Rises' Burn Gorman as Martin, a recently deceased man who wants to get Up There after being knocked down by a car.Winner of the Panavision Spirit Award - the top prize at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2012 - and co-starring Kate O'Flynn (Happy-Go-Lucky), Aymen Hamdouchi (Green Zone), it also features the acting takents of Chris Waitt (A Complete History of My Sexual Failures), Jo Hartley (Dead Man's Shoes, Ill Manors), Iain de Caestecker (The Fades, Young James Herriott), and Kirsty Strain (Burnistoun,...
- 9/19/2012
- EmpireOnline
A dead man stuck in a dead end job welcoming new arrivals to the afterlife fears things will get even worse when he accidentally loses a soul.
What if the fate of your afterlife is not decided based on what you did while you were alive, but how you deal with your demise? Zam Salim's feature film debut Up There sets out to answer this question and does so with wit and simplicity.
Martin (Burn Gorman) works as a carer since he was run over by a car, welcoming new arrivals into the terribly bureaucratic and beige afterlife. When his partner Ali is assessed and found worthy to go...
What if the fate of your afterlife is not decided based on what you did while you were alive, but how you deal with your demise? Zam Salim's feature film debut Up There sets out to answer this question and does so with wit and simplicity.
Martin (Burn Gorman) works as a carer since he was run over by a car, welcoming new arrivals into the terribly bureaucratic and beige afterlife. When his partner Ali is assessed and found worthy to go...
- 2/25/2012
- by Lindis Kipp
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Dead funny
It won the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival at now it's about to have its British première at the Glasgow Film Festival. We talk to director Zam Salim about Up There, and ask what's so funny about being dead.
“I wanted to make a film about loneliness, unemployment, misery and death,” says Zam, “but if I'd done that literally I don't think anybody would want to watch it. So I gave it a twist. I wanted to look at the absurdity of it and make more of a genre movie.”
Up There is the story of...
It won the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival at now it's about to have its British première at the Glasgow Film Festival. We talk to director Zam Salim about Up There, and ask what's so funny about being dead.
“I wanted to make a film about loneliness, unemployment, misery and death,” says Zam, “but if I'd done that literally I don't think anybody would want to watch it. So I gave it a twist. I wanted to look at the absurdity of it and make more of a genre movie.”
Up There is the story of...
- 2/13/2012
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The afterlife comedy "Up There" and the Christopher Plummer showcase "Barrymore" are among the films that have won awards at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which concluded its 11-day run on Sunday by handing out 10 jury and one audience award. Ken Scott's "Starbuck," about a sperm donor sued by some of the 500-plus children he fathered, won the festival's Audience Choice Award. "Up There," Zam Salim's comedy about a newly-deceased man who's given a job welcoming newcomers to the afterlife, was given the jury's Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema,...
- 2/6/2012
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Zam Salim’s Up There, about a young man stuck into a dead-end job welcoming the newly deceased into the afterlife, received the Paranavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which concluded Sunday. The prize includes a Panavision camera package worth $60,000. Photos: The Scene at Santa Barbara International Film Festival Ken Scott’s dramatic feature, Starbuck, about a class action suit against a sperm donor, earned the Audience Choice Award, sponsored by the Sb Independent. The 27th edition of the festival announced winners at a brunch on Sunday at the Fess Parker Resort
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- 2/6/2012
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Zam Salim's feature-directing debut, "Up There," took the top prize at the 2012 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which ended today. "Up There," which received the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema, is a story about the deceased Martin, who's stuck in a dead-end afterlife job but dreams of ascending "up there" -- a hope that's dashed when he loses a soul and must figure out how to recover the new arrival. Salim's award included a Panavision camera package worth $60,000. The jury included actor/comedian Dave Koechner; actor/director Brad Hall; actor/writer W. Earl Brown; actor Anthony Zerbe and his wife Arnette Zerbe; Sbiff originator Phyllis de Picciotto; director Glenn Jordan; actor Tim Matheson; online awards columnist Kris Tapley and writer/ director Perry Lang. The Audience Choice Award, sponsored by the Sb Independent, went to "Starbuck," directed by Ken Scott, about a former sperm...
- 2/6/2012
- Indiewire
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