Film
2018
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UK delegation at Rome's MIA: ready to collaborate
October 2018
Wendy Mitchell reports from the MIA Film and TV market in Rome, where the UK enjoyed a special spotlight in 2018.
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Activism with soul at the BlackStar Film Festival
29th August 2018
The American festival of films by people of colour, which we have just added to our Key Festivals List for travel grants, energised and inspired our Film Programme Manager Jemma Desai.
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Making movies with mobiles in Bangladesh
14th August 2018
Three groups of filmmaking novices were let loose in Dhaka to tell their stories with just phones and imagination. Workshop leader Mark Bishop reveals all.
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Talking festivals at Think Fest
6th August 2018
Festival experts gathered at the second annual Think Fest in Jerusalem to look at hot topics in the film festival world.
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Empowerment in the east: tackling gender at the Odessa Film Festival
24th July 2018
Kate Kinninmont MBE reveals what happened at a lively event where British Council Ukraine unveiled its findings on equality in the arts.
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Rachel Shenton and Chris Overton on their Oscar-winning short The Silent Child
24th July 2018
The filmmaking couple, who are on our Short Support Scheme, made a film about a deaf girl who has difficulty communicating with her distracted family.
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What would Jarman have made of Trump?
17th July 2018
As a British Council-supported season of Derek Jarman's films plays in Buenos Aires, Alex Davidson explains why his work still has firepower.
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Alisa Kovalenko on how her doc Home Games went from idea to short to feature
31st May 2018
The Ukrainian director, whose project was developed through The Guardian Goes Ukraine, with our support, took the feature-length version to Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018 for its world premiere.
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George Clark on Jatiwangi Art Factory's living archive
22nd May 2018
The second of filmmaker and curator George Clark's reports on his residency with Jatiwangi Art Factory in West Java, undertaken as part of the UK/Indonesia 2016-18 season.
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Director Finlay Pretsell on the sights and sounds of his cycling doc Time Trial
24th April 2018
Find out what happened when our colleague from the Scottish Documentary Institute and his composer Dan Deacon hit music-flavoured film festivals SXSW and CPH:DOX with their film Time Trial.
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Filmmaker Anna Maguire imbibes Goan culture – and liquor – at Unbox
10th April 2018
The director 'threw herself into the unknown' to attend the collaborative event where everything from cuisine to conservation inspired her filmmaking.
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Heart and Seoul: falling for the South Korean capital at its Pride Film Festival
22nd March 2018
Brian Robinson, senior programmer for BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival, finds hope in a modern city where homosexuality is still taboo.
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Deaffest's adventures in China
13th March 2018
Nikki Stratton, co-director of Wolverhampton's deaf-led film and arts festival, reports on her trip to Shanghai.
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Virtual Reality producer Alex Pearson rebuilds Aleppo
2nd March 2018
With the help of Syrian refugee children, Pearson has created a virtual version of their bombed city. He explains the process of bringing Aleppo back to life.
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The low-down on This Way Up
22nd February 2018
Three young people from the BFI Film Academy share their experience of the film exhibition innovation conference and its special guest, Audrey the vintage mobile cinema.
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George Clark on making and showing films at Jatiwangi Art Factory
15th February 2018
As part of the UK/Indonesia 2016-18 season, filmmaker and curator George Clark undertook a residency in summer 2017 with Jatiwangi Art Factory (JaF) in the small village of Jatiwangi in West Java.
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Shola Amoo takes A Moving Image to Africa
10th January 2018
Shola Amoo recently travelled to four African countries with his feature film A Moving Image for a series of screenings and workshops
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