Tribeca Film Institute announced this year’s winners of their Tribeca All Access Grantees program which provides fourteen documentary and scripted filmmaking production teams with $10,000 grants to help with their business needs.
03.03.2020 - 18:31 / deadline.com
By Tom Grater
International Film Reporter
The Doha Film Institute has cancelled the 2020 edition of Qumra due to fears over the spread of coronavirus. Claire Denis and James Gray had been set to attend the event, which invites international directors to speak to Arab filmmakers and was due to run March 20-25.
In a statement today, organizers said, “Due to the current global alert regarding the COVID-19 outbreak, the decision comes as part of the Institute’s contribution to manage and reduce
Tribeca Film Institute announced this year’s winners of their Tribeca All Access Grantees program which provides fourteen documentary and scripted filmmaking production teams with $10,000 grants to help with their business needs.
The Scottish Government has ditched plans for indyref2 this year in the wake of the Coronavirus crisis.
It is the first time the contest has been cancelled in its 64-year history.
The British Film Institute is convening its Screen Sector Taskforce to help deal with what it has called the “unprecedented challenge” presented to the film industry by coronavirus.
The British Film Institute has set up a taskforce to deal with what it has called the “unprecedented challenge” presented to the film industry by coronavirus.
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The BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival has been canceled days before it was set to launch in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
The coronavirus outbreak has been categorized as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization, and the number of cases continues to rise, with more than 124,000 people diagnosed with COVID-19 so far. As a result, a growing number of public events are being canceled, and no industry has been left untouched.
In today’s film news roundup, film festivals in New Jersey and Idaho are being postponed, Oscar-nominated Jason Hall will direct wrestling drama “Unstoppable” and the StoryPlace Studios database of story content is unveiled.
As concern continues to grow over the worldwide spread of COVID-19, commonly known as coronavirus, many are taking proactive measures to keep themselves safe from the flu-like virus, which can be fatal in the most extreme cases.
Hollywood's annual gathering of classic film fans will be scrapped this year amid the spread of coronavirus.
By Erik Pedersen
In today’s film news roundup, four film festivals have opted to pull the plug, the horror film “Infection” finds a home, Heidi Honeycutt gets hired and “Where the Crawdads Sing” gets a writer.
With the coronavirus crisis continuing to accelerate at an alarming pace internationally, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has joined the growing number of organizations and companies to have instructed U.K. employees to cancel in-person meetings, The Hollywood Reporter understands.