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The U.K.’s National Film and Television School has partnered with the Sean Connery Foundation to establish a new Scottish filmmaking center in Edinburgh. Meanwhile, Abu Bakr Shawky’s drama ‘The Stories’ has been selected as Egypt’s entry for the Academy Award for best international feature film.
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Variety
Primetime and Breaking Through The Lens have unveiled a strategic partnership at the Cannes Film Festival designed to create new financing channels for women and non-binary filmmakers working across film and television. The two organizations are combining Primetime’s model of bundling in-kind
2026-05-19 12:52 UTC
Deadline
Piers Morgan is on the warpath over Swan Song, the bombshell memoir from Charles Spencer, brother of the late Princess Diana. Spencer’s book has dominated the headlines in the UK for days following his explosive allegation that King Charles III said Diana would soon be forgotten in the afterma
2026-09-22 08:53 UTC
Variety
Abu Bakr Shawky’s drama “The Stories” — which is inspired by how the director’s Egyptian father and Austrian mother began their love affair as pen pals — has been selected as Egypt’s entry for the Academy Award for best international feature film. When Shawky’s fa
2026-09-22 08:53 UTC
Variety
In a move mirroring European indie producers’ look out for strong partners in an unstable market, Helsinki-filmi (“Tom of Finland,“ “The Summer Book,” “Codename: Annika”), one of the biggest content creators in Finland, and Glassriver (“As Long as I Live,” Black Sands”), one of the leading players i
2026-09-22 09:00 UTC
Variety
The U.K.’s renowned National Film and Television School (NFTS) has partnered with the Sean Connery Foundation to establish a new Scottish filmmaking center in Edinburgh. The NFTS Sean Connery Institute, which will launch in 2027, will bring together and expand the NFTS’ work in Scotland
2026-09-22 09:00 UTC
Deadline
Mubi and IPR. VC have locked what has been described as a multi-year alliance to co-finance a slate of European films for theatrical release and global distribution on Mubi. Fatherland, the latest feature by Paweł Pawlikowski, and Felix van Groeningen’s Let Love In are the first films to be produced
2026-04-08 13:51 UTC