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3818 articles available in total starting from 23/05/2002. Last article published on 30/01/2026.

Name-change for Film Council

As of 13 May, the United Kingdom’s leading agency for the promotion of the local film industry, the Film Council (FC) and its inward investment arm, the British Film Commission (BFC), will be...  

30/05/2003 | Institutions | UK

Theatre siege filmed

Journalist Michael Lerner has written an initial treatment for a film about the four-day siege of Moscow’s Dubrovka Theatre by armed Chechen rebels in October 2002. The Czech Republic’s Ivan...  

30/05/2003 | Films | UK

"Gosford" scribe’s directorial debut

Oscar-winner Tom Wilkinson and two-time Academy nominee Emily Watson to star in "A Way Through the Woods" by Julian Fellowes, who's also writing the adaptation  

29/05/2003 | Films | UK

More women in film

Two leading film directors, New Zealand’s Jane Campion (The Piano, An Angel at my table and Portrait of a Lady) and Britain’s Gurinder Chadha (Bend it like Beckham and the Bollywood Pride and...  

07/05/2003 | UK

Brits keep low profile

In contrast to last year, when films by Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Michael Winterbottom were selected for the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, the 2003 crop of British films saw...  

30/04/2003 | Cannes 2003 | UK

27 per cent drop in March

UK cinema admissions reached 10.4m last March, a 27 per cent drop on the same period last year. The first quarter of 2003 also reported a 14 per cent drop on 2002 with a total of 42m tickets sold....  

30/04/2003 | Admissions | UK

Film Council says "Yes"

Sally Potter begins shooting Yes, starring Sam Neill and Joan Allen, in a love story about a US scientist and a Lebanese cook living in London  

29/04/2003 | Production | UK

Six films get Development Funding

Six new feature film projects, including Revolving Door by Martha Fiennes (Onegin), have just been awarded a total of £180,032 (Euros260,388) from the Film Council’s Development Fund headed by...  

28/04/2003 | Funding | UK

BFI Film Archives need urgent rescue plan

The British Film Institute’s National Film and Television Archive (NFTA), one of the oldest and largest in the world, is in serious need of a financial, strategic and management review to avoid...  

14/04/2003 | Archives | UK

Nordic hits get UK release

Two Scandinavian hits are currently screening in the United Kingdom with mixed results. Norwegian hit, Elling by Petter Naess was released on 14 March by alternative independent distributor...  

14/04/2003 | Distribution | UK

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