BFI & BAFTA Team For Plan To Reduce Film Production Carbon Footprint To Net Zero Emissions

Andreas Wiseman International EditorThe BFI and IWC Schaffhausen today revealed the three filmmakers shortlisted for the annual IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, given in association with the UK film organization.The 2020 contenders are Cathy Brady, writer-director of debut feature Wildfire, Aleem Khan, writer-director of debut feature After Love, and Francis Lee, writer-director of sophomore feature Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan.At £50,000 ($65k), and now in its

David Bowie in Stardust has been released – check it out below.The film, an unauthorised biopic about Bowie in 1971 mapping his infamous US tour and the creation of the Ziggy Stardust persona, has set a UK premiere date at Raindance Film Festival.The first screening will take place at a socially-distanced opening night gala in London on October 28 with the film’s director Gabriel Range in attendance.Check out the new image here:Stardust will not include any of Bowie’s songs, as the musician’s

Andreas Wiseman International EditorThe UK government has published the awaited eligibility criteria and guidelines for its £500M ($646M) film and TV production restart program.The scheme is aimed at helping UK productions that have been suspended and are not able to secure insurance going forward, or are yet to start because of no existing insurance, get back underway before the end of the year.Following industry lobbying, the government committed to an emergency COVID insurance fund back in

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Dax Phelan (Jasmine, The Other Side of the Wind) has acquired the rights to UK author Mark Turley’s boxing book Journeymen: The Other Side of the Boxing Business, a New Perspective on the Noble Art, and will be shopping the project during Toronto.The novel follows an alcoholic, drug-abusing, past-his-prime journeyman boxer, who, after being diagnosed with neurological damage, continues his career on the small-hall circuit at grave risk to himself,

coronavirus pandemic The event will take place as a closed-studio, socially distanced show, hosted by TV presenter and radio broadcaster Edith Bowman.

Oscar-winner Sir Anthony Hopkins and rising British name Johnny Flynn (Beast, Emma) are set to star in One Life, a drama based on the incredible true story of humanitarian Sir Nicholas George. See-Saw Films and BBC Films are behind the project, with co-managing director Iain Canning (Lion, The King's Speech) and Joanna Laurie producing and Aisling Walsh (Maudie, Elizabeth is Missing) set to direct.

Dave McNary Film ReporterAnthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn are starring in the Holocaust drama “One Life,” centered on the life of humanitarian Nicholas George Winton.Both actors will portray Winton, who championed the rescue of Czech children threatened with deportation to Hitler’s death camps to the safety of British foster families. He succeeded in rescuing 669 children before World War II broke out.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes) and rising Brit actor Johnny Flynn (Emma) are attached to star in One Life, a feature drama based on the true story of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton who helped save hundreds of children from the Nazis on the eve of World War Two.Lucinda Coxon (The Danish Girl) and Nick Drake (Romulus) have co-written the screenplay based on the extraordinary story of Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton who, when just 29 years

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: BBC One has commissioned 9/11: The Twenty Year Anniversary, a feature length documentary marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11, from UK firm Top Hat Productions (Exposed: The Church’s Darkest Secret) and BAFTA-winning director Arthur Cary (The Last Survivors).The 90-minute film, which will air next year, will tell the story of the two-hour period when terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and Flight 93 changed the world forever.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe 2020 British Britannia Awards has been delayed until next year due to the coronavirus pandemic.BAFTA LA, which holds the event every year, said in a statement: “BAFTA’s focus in Los Angeles during 2020 will continue to be on its year-round membership programming, educational initiatives, and new talent programs, reaffirming its commitment to keep people connected, creatively inspired and supported during these challenging circumstances.

Also Read: BAFTA Film Awards Pushed Back 2 MonthsThe Awards are presented annually at The British Academy Britannia Awards gala dinner, which celebrates the relationship between the British and American entertainment industries. The first Britannia Award was presented in 1989 to Albert R.

Peter White Television EditorThe Britannia Awards, organized by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, has been postponed.The event, which last year was held on October 25 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, has been shelved until 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.It is the latest, and likely not the last, physical film and television event to have been hit by the Coronavirus.BAFTA said that instead its focus in LA during 2020 will be on its membership programming, educational

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThis year’s BFI London Film Festival, taking place as a hybrid of online and physical activities due to ongoing pandemic disruption, has unveiled a program of 58 titles.A selection of screenings will take place at cinemas and others will take place in a virtual form for audiences across the UK. The films come from 40 countries.

Naman Ramachandran The 64th edition of the British Film Institute London Film Festival (LFF) revealed its full program Tuesday, containing a robust line-up of 58 features from around the world, as well as a range of extended reality (XR) projects and shorts.As previously announced, Steve MacQueen’s “Mangrove” will open the festival and Francis Lee’s “Ammonite” will close it.Highlights of the program include Harry Macqueen’s mature love story “Supernova,” starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci;

The average tentpole film creates 2,840 tons of greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent carbon impact of 11 one-way trips from the Earth to the moon, according to a new sustainability report.