email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

Festivals / UK


256 articles available in total starting from 14/06/2002. Last article published on 12/04/2019.

Strong British, European presence at LFF

The main programme for the upcoming Times BFI London Film Festival (LFF) boasts of a strong British and European presence amongst 189 features and 108 shorts. Apart from closing night film Slumdog...  

11/09/2008 | Festivals | UK

Frost/Nixon, Slumdog Millionaire to bookend London

The 52nd Times BFI London Film Festival (October 15-30) will open with the world premiere of Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon, an adaptation of his own stage play by BAFTA-winning scriptwriter Peter...  

05/09/2008 | Festivals | UK

Choke, Hush bookend Raindance programme

Festival patron Ken Loach has announced the programme for the 16th Raindance Film Festival (October 1-12). Clark Gregg’s Choke will open the festival. The festival concludes with the world...  

04/09/2008 | Festivals | UK

British wave set to sweep Toronto

The British film industry has a significant presence at the Toronto Film Festival this year with 25 films chosen in the line-up. Some of the selected films have already garnered acclaim and awards...  

22/08/2008 | Festivals | UK

BRITDOC 08 promises stellar line-up

Sundance winner Man on Wire, war photographer documentary Blood Trail, and the inspirational Day After Peace, about a peace campaigner questing for a rare day of world peace, are amongst 17...  

08/07/2008 | Festivals | UK

Carlyle joins Edinburgh Patron cast

Actor Robert Carlyle, who just won the Best Performance Award at the recently concluded Edinburgh International Film Festival, has joined Sir Sean Connery and Tilda Swinton as a Festival Patron....  

04/07/2008 | Festivals | UK

Somers Town takes top Edinburgh honour

Shane Meadows’ Somers Town has won the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF). The Jury citation read: “It is a great pleasure...  

01/07/2008 | Festivals | UK

Woolley heads Edinburgh Lab

Director Stephen Woolley has been named the Patron of the new Directors’ Lab at the ongoing Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF). The five-day lab will match up the six chosen directors...  

23/06/2008 | Festivals | UK

British festivals get huge cash injection

The UK Film Council is awarding British film festivals £740,000 over the next three years, enabling them to raise their profile. Belfast’s Cinemagic World Screen Film and Television Festival for...  

16/06/2008 | Festivals | UK

Edinburgh replete with industry events

The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) boasts of a record number of industry events this year. This year’s new talent focus drive has no less than three events over a weekend: Producer...  

10/06/2008 | Festivals | UK

Privacy Policy