Day: 7 February 2025
Reclaim the Frame celebrates 20 year anniversary
UK-based Reclaim The Frame will present a programme of events celebrating International Women’s Day 2025, also marking the 20-year anniversary of the inaugural Birds’ Eye View Film Festival, from which the charity evolved. Taking place from 7-9 March at BFI Southbank, where the festival first launched, and the Regent Street Cinema, and with a selection … Read more
The making of A Complete Unknown
Over the course of seven feature collaborations, cinematographer Phedon Papamichael ASC GSC and director James Mangold have nurtured their shared sensibilities into an expanding visual language they continually modify to meet the needs of the story at hand. Their most recent movie, A Complete Unknown, charts Bob Dylan’s rise to fame in New York City’s … Read more
VMI wins West London SME Green Business of the Year Award
VMI TV has been honoured with the West London Business SME Green Business of the Year award at the prestigious awards ceremony in Twickenham on 29 January 2025. This accolade, in the inaugural year of the category, recognises VMI’s unwavering commitment to sustainability and industry-wide environmental leadership. VMI’s sustainability journey was inspired by the Better Futures programme with … Read more
DP Timur Civan lights gothic country music video with Snapbridge
In his Joshua Tree studio, cinematographer Timur Civan recently lensed a new music video “Resurrection” for gothic country artist Blood Nebraska. Working in collaboration with director Bhavani Lee, the video features a poetic interplay of light and shadow, which Civan achieved using Snapbridge with Color Bounces from DoPchoice and Lightbridge. The music video, starring Blood … Read more
Director-DP Lauren Maya Davis on Songbirds
Please share an outline of the production? Songbirds is a short film inspired by personal experiences working with children and rescued wolves and is loosely based on scenes from the award-winning novel Theft by American writer BK Loren. It was awarded bronze at the 2024 CICLOPE Festival in Berlin, has been awarded best short film … Read more
DP James Hoare on Don’t Talk About the Monster on the Roof
Please share an outline of the production? Don’t Talk About the Monster on the Roof is a short student film that follows four buddies on a road trip who are confronted with a monstrous creature living on the roof of their car. This film was a final major project for the Screen Arts course at … Read more
Motion Impossible to showcase at BSC Expo
At this year’s BSC Expo, Motion Impossible is teaming up with big names like Fujifilm (Stand 121), Camera Revolution (Stand 248) and Brownian Motion (244) to showcase its technology – not in isolation, but as part of these partners’ exhibits. By doing this, the company aims to highlight how its camera movement and stabilisation systems … Read more
Douglas Delaney joins Light Iron as supervising colourist
Light Iron, the post-production creative-services division of Panavision, announce that Douglas Delaney has joined the company’s artist roster as a supervising colourist. Delaney is based out of Light Iron’s Los Angeles facility, with the ability to collaborate with clients globally through Light Iron’s comprehensive remote capabilities. With more than two decades of experience in post production … Read more
BFI 2024 stats reveal £5.6b film and HETV production spend in the UK
The latest official figures published by the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit show that film and high-end TV production spend in the UK was £5.6 billion in 2024, a 31% increase on 2023 as parts of the sector regained momentum, generating billions to the UK economy. The lion’s share of the total £5.6 billion production spend was … Read more
Awards jury and nominations announced for BFI Future Film Festival 2025
The BFI announces the award nominations for the programme of fifty-four short films that have been selected to screen as part of the BFI Future Film Festival 2025, the UK’s largest festival for young, emerging filmmakers which returns from 20 February – 6 March in-venue at BFI Southbank, online globally for free, and in cinemas … Read more