BFI Appoints Mia Bays Director Of Film Fund; Farhana Bhula & Kristin Irving Promoted

Starz has rounded out its cast for Becoming Elizabeth, its eight-episode drama series chronicling the early years of Queen Elizabeth I. Romola Garai (The Hour), Jessica Raine (The Informer), Tom Cullen (Weekend) and Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones) are among 14 cast members joining Alicia Von Rittberg in the Lionsgate-owned Starz series from UK producer The Forge. The series is a co-production of Lionsgate Television and The Forge.

A former Seattle Post-Intelligencer investigative reporter James Wallace and author of two books on Bill Gates has opened up about the Microsoft co-founder's life during the 80s and 90s. Wallace revealed that Bill Gates used to host 'wild parties' and he wasn't just a 'computer nerd'. Speaking to UK's Daily Mail, Wallace said, "A lot of those Microsoft kids back then, they were young guys in pizza-stained t-shirts for two or three days working on software code.

told the UK’s Sunday Times that “the truth is that I have not and I do not plan to right now.”Representatives for Franco did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment on this article.It’s been a long fall from grace for Franco in a career that has veered wildly from the highs of getting a Best Actor Oscar nomination for 2010’s “127 Hours” to the lows of his cringe-worthy co-hosting gig with Anne Hathaway at the 2011 Academy Awards.

intensity of Covid lockdowns and restrictions has affected married couples across the world, for better or worse, for richer or poorer. While some couples have found benefits to this altered life, a report from north-west China last March described a record number of applications for divorce as the registration offices reopened.

The second season of Bridgerton has officially started filming and the first photos from set have been released online!

Heather Stewart, a hugely respected film British Film Institute veteran who has helped transform the BFI National Archive into a world-leading film preservation facility, is to step down from her current role as creative director after 30 years at the organization.

Heather Stewart, the long-time British Film Institute executive, will step down from her role as Creative Director at the organization in September 2021 and will take up a new position as BFI Director Emeritus.

Naman Ramachandran British Film Institute (BFI) creative director Heather Stewart is stepping down after a career spanning 30 years to take on an advisory position.From September, Stewart will take up the role of BFI director emeritus where she will serve as an ambassador and advisor to the BFI, with a focus on strategic archive development and worldwide fundraising and philanthropic engagement.

Vogue. Gallery: 40 Iconic Photos Of Celebrities At Their Very First Oscars (ELLE (UK))“I know that one day it won’t be unusual or groundbreaking, it will just be normal” for black women, trans women, and Latinas to be claiming Oscars, Neal said.

UK Screen Industries Survey Highlights Socio-Economic ImbalanceA new survey has found that the majority of people working in the UK’s screen industries are from a background that is classified as ‘privileged’. The survey, conducted by the Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre and backed by ScreenSkills, analyzed data from the latest edition of the Office for National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey in 2019.

After unveiling plans for the project in late 2020, the British government and British Film Institute has now formally launched the U.K. Global Screen Fund.

The British Film Institute has appointed Mia Bays as director of the BFI Film Fund. Bays, currently director-at-large of the female-focused Birds' Eye View film charity and due to take the position in October, will fill the role left open by Ben Roberts when he was promoted to CEO in early 2020.

The acting bug has been passed down from Kate Winslet to her daughter, Mia Threapleton. Mia, the 20-year-old daughter of Kate, 45, and her husband, director Jim Threapleton, 48, has begun her career in show business.

Kate Winslet's daughter, Mia Threapleton, might be following in her famous mom's footsteps, but she's doing it on her own terms!The 20-year-old daughter of Winslet and her first husband, Jim Threapleton, has managed to make a name for herself with acting without anyone associating her with her Oscar-winning mom. «Mia's 20 and acting,» Winslet, 45, revealed of her eldest child on the British talk show,.

Brian Fallon has announced details of rescheduled UK and European tour dates for 2022.The Gaslight Anthem frontman will kick off the ‘Local Honey’ tour in Frankfurt in April 2022, before heading across the continent for a lengthy series of dates that will conclude at Nottingham’s Rock City on May 28 of that year.You can check out the tour dates in full below.APRIL 2022 26 – Frankfurt, GER – Batschkap 27 – Hamburg, GER – Edel-Optics.de Arena 28 – Gothenburg, SWE – Pustervik 29 – Stockholm, SWE –