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The UK government has forged a £21M ($28M) Global Screen Fund to help build the nation’s reputation for independent film internationally.
Today’s announcement is the extension of a £7M ($9.4M) pilot that has taken place over the past year, which has helped fund UK independent productions such as Maggie Smith-starring The Miracle Club and Emma Thompson’s Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, the latter of which struck a deal with Searchlight at last week’s Sundance. Other films to be awarded funding include UK-Ireland TV animation Ghastly Ghoul, UK-France co-pro Drift and UK-Chile-Argentina-France-Denmark co-pro The Settlers.
Across three years, the fund will be administered by the BFI and used in the co-production, distribution and business development of UK independent films.
BFI CEO Ben Roberts said Global Screen will provide “vital support” when it launches later this year.
“In its pilot, the fund has stimulated new international partnerships, boosting co-production, distribution and development opportunities to drive growth and export,” he added. “This continued investment recognises the power and potential of UK screen content.”
The move comes as part of a £50M ($67.1M) package of measures introduced by UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries to “level up” the country outside of London.
An £18M ($24.2M) Creative Scale Up Programme will provide finance and business support to companies working in the creative industries that aren’t based in the capital. A further £8M ($10.7M) is being readied for the games industry.
Dorries, who attracted headlines earlier this month for saying she wants to scrap the BBC licence fee, said creative businesses across the country will be “given the tools they need to expand their work and provide more
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Jennifer Lopez, 52, wowed on Feb. 4 when she made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in an eye-catching set of outfits. The singer performed her new song “Marry Me”, from the new film Marry Me, with Maluma, and wore a flattering white bikini top under a matching cropped blazer and a long skirt. Before she sang, she also wore a long bright red dress with spaghetti straps as she happily chatted with the show’s host, Jimmy Fallon.
Seori has performed a live band version of her 2021 single ‘Lovers In The Night’ for Grammy’s Global Spin series.On February 1, the star became the first Korean female artist and the second Korean act, after former iKON member B.I, to be featured on the series. She took to the stage to sing her English-language track ‘Lovers In The Night’ which dropped in early 2021, and had marked her first single with Asian-American label 88rising.Accompanied by a live band at the historical Deoksugung Palace in Seoul, Seori had donned a reinterpreted hanbok (traditional Korean dress) to perform the song in celebration of Seollal, the Korean Lunar New Year.
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Sir Keir Starmer, the UK’s opposition Labour Party leader, will tonight urge the screen industries to “speak out in defence of the values of public sector broadcasting against the government’s attacks.”
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