03/10/2012 - Three selected films to go into production in 2013

Creative England, BFI Film Fund and BBC Films have chosen eight films from an original slate of 16 the full development stage of iFeatures2, one of the UK initiatives for emerging feature film talent. These eight will now go through a period of paid script development and will be whittled down to three. These will go into production in early 2013, on budgets of £350,000 each. The partners will fully finance.

The successful directing talent includes Martin Radich, Jonathan Entwistle, Alex Taylor, Rachel Tunnard, Guy Myhill, Al Mackay, David Jackson and Esther Richardson. Selected writers include Ed Hime, Ed Aldridge, Regina Moriarty and Ross Jameson. The chosen producers are Michael Berliner, Dominic Buchanan, Rachel Dargavel, Finlay Pretsell, Nicola Bowen, Miranda Fleming, Lee Goombridge and Nicola Clayton.

Creative England also plans to offer further development investment outside of iFeatures2 to a number of the projects that didn’t make it through to the last eight.

Tristan Goligher, iFeatures2 Executive Producer, said, “From a slate of 16 strong projects it was not an easy process to choose eight. But just a glance at those selected ideas, and teams shows the quality of emerging filmmakers in the UK and the commitment of iFeatures2 to the most distinctive voices and stories.”