Glasgow Film Festival’s (Gff) Industry Focus (March 3-7) returns with a line-up that includes a celebration of the new wave of UK filmmaking and brings together filmmakers for an in conversation event with the BFI’s head of the Filmmaking Fund Mia Bays and BBC Film director Eva Yates.
NextGen will unite executives with Girl director Adura Onashile, Scrapper filmmaker Charlotte Regan and Lucy Cohen, whose feature Edge Of Summer will world premiere at this year’s Gff.
Further highlights include the Animatic Live Pitch - Gff’s new animation talent development scheme, which culminates in a live pitch...
NextGen will unite executives with Girl director Adura Onashile, Scrapper filmmaker Charlotte Regan and Lucy Cohen, whose feature Edge Of Summer will world premiere at this year’s Gff.
Further highlights include the Animatic Live Pitch - Gff’s new animation talent development scheme, which culminates in a live pitch...
- 2/6/2024
- ScreenDaily
The board will develop a 10-year strategy for the festival’s industry programme.
Film and TV director Raisah Ahmed will chair the new industry advisory board of the Glasgow Film Festival (Gff), that will also include executives from Film4, Protagonist and Netflix.
The board will “drive further development of Glasgow Film Festival’s industry offer, providing new opportunities for Scotland-based talent to meet, collaborate, pitch ideas, and develop their work together”, said David Smith, director, Screen Scotland.
The board will announce its 10-year strategy for the industry programme at the next Gff which takes place February 28 – March 10, 2024.
Ahmed’s credts...
Film and TV director Raisah Ahmed will chair the new industry advisory board of the Glasgow Film Festival (Gff), that will also include executives from Film4, Protagonist and Netflix.
The board will “drive further development of Glasgow Film Festival’s industry offer, providing new opportunities for Scotland-based talent to meet, collaborate, pitch ideas, and develop their work together”, said David Smith, director, Screen Scotland.
The board will announce its 10-year strategy for the industry programme at the next Gff which takes place February 28 – March 10, 2024.
Ahmed’s credts...
- 9/19/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The board will develop a 10-year strategy for the festival’s industry programme.
Film and TV director Raisah Ahmed will chair the new industry advisory board of the Glasgow Film Festival (Gff), that will also include executives from Film4, Protagonist and Netflix.
The board will “drive further development of Glasgow Film Festival’s industry offer, providing new opportunities for Scotland-based talent to meet, collaborate, pitch ideas, and develop their work together”, said David Smith, director, Screen Scotland.
The board will announce its 10-year strategy for the industry programme at the next Gff which takes place February 28 – March 10, 2024.
Ahmed’s credts...
Film and TV director Raisah Ahmed will chair the new industry advisory board of the Glasgow Film Festival (Gff), that will also include executives from Film4, Protagonist and Netflix.
The board will “drive further development of Glasgow Film Festival’s industry offer, providing new opportunities for Scotland-based talent to meet, collaborate, pitch ideas, and develop their work together”, said David Smith, director, Screen Scotland.
The board will announce its 10-year strategy for the industry programme at the next Gff which takes place February 28 – March 10, 2024.
Ahmed’s credts...
- 9/19/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Netflix Appoints Hamish Moseley As Distribution Exec
London-based Hamish Moseley has been tapped as Director Of Distribution, theatrical, for Emea, reporting to Spencer Klein, Head of Distribution at the streamer. The distribution vet most recently helped establish Altitude’s distribution arm, acquiring titles including Oscar-winners Moonlight and Minari, and helped to get the UK theatrical supply chain back up and running after the pandemic with movies like Unhinged. He respected professional started out at Momentum Pictures working on titles including The Woman In Black and The King’s Speech. Netflix is expected to theatrically release around 30 features and docs in the Emea per year. Screen was first to report the hire.
Cohen Media Acquires Picks Up Israeli Oscar Submission
Cohen Media Group has acquired North American rights to Let It Be Morning, Israel’s submission to the 2022 Oscars. The Eran Kolirin-directed drama is a gently satirical tale of a man...
London-based Hamish Moseley has been tapped as Director Of Distribution, theatrical, for Emea, reporting to Spencer Klein, Head of Distribution at the streamer. The distribution vet most recently helped establish Altitude’s distribution arm, acquiring titles including Oscar-winners Moonlight and Minari, and helped to get the UK theatrical supply chain back up and running after the pandemic with movies like Unhinged. He respected professional started out at Momentum Pictures working on titles including The Woman In Black and The King’s Speech. Netflix is expected to theatrically release around 30 features and docs in the Emea per year. Screen was first to report the hire.
Cohen Media Acquires Picks Up Israeli Oscar Submission
Cohen Media Group has acquired North American rights to Let It Be Morning, Israel’s submission to the 2022 Oscars. The Eran Kolirin-directed drama is a gently satirical tale of a man...
- 11/4/2021
- by Anuj Radia
- Deadline Film + TV
Sundance winner ‘Minari’ leads acquisitions of festival hits.
Altitude Film Entertainment has acquired UK and Ireland distribution rights to three festival hits and plans to release them during the upcoming awards season.
Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari was acquired from A24. It won the grand jury and audience awards at Sundance, where the drama debuted earlier this year. Altitude hopes to release on April 2, 2021.
Steven Yeun, best known for roles in Bong Joon Ho’s Okja and The Walking Dead, stars in the story of a Korean-American family trying to build themselves a new life in small town Arkansas in the 1980s.
Altitude Film Entertainment has acquired UK and Ireland distribution rights to three festival hits and plans to release them during the upcoming awards season.
Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari was acquired from A24. It won the grand jury and audience awards at Sundance, where the drama debuted earlier this year. Altitude hopes to release on April 2, 2021.
Steven Yeun, best known for roles in Bong Joon Ho’s Okja and The Walking Dead, stars in the story of a Korean-American family trying to build themselves a new life in small town Arkansas in the 1980s.
- 12/3/2020
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The deal was done with Russian sales outfit Wizart.
Russian animation specialists Wizart has closed multiple sales on its autumn market slate including an eye-catching two-film deal with the UK’s Altitude Film Distribution.
Altitude has bought The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands and The Snow Queen: Fire And Ice, the third and fourth titles in the Snow Queen franchise. Fire And Ice will be a home entertainment release, aimed at the Christmas market in November. Mirrorlands will follow as a theatrical release in February 2020.
The Snow Queen franchise has previously been handled in the UK by Signature. The first in the series,...
Russian animation specialists Wizart has closed multiple sales on its autumn market slate including an eye-catching two-film deal with the UK’s Altitude Film Distribution.
Altitude has bought The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands and The Snow Queen: Fire And Ice, the third and fourth titles in the Snow Queen franchise. Fire And Ice will be a home entertainment release, aimed at the Christmas market in November. Mirrorlands will follow as a theatrical release in February 2020.
The Snow Queen franchise has previously been handled in the UK by Signature. The first in the series,...
- 9/13/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Company unveils plans for its summer slate including ‘Maradona’, ‘Horrible Histories’.
Altitude Film Distribution, the releasing arm of UK mini-studio Altitude Film Entertainment, has added four titles to its UK release slate.
The company has picked up rights to Andre Singer and Werner Herzog’s documentary Meeting Gorbachev. The film, which premiered at Telluride last year, sees Herzog interview the former general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to get an insight into his life and career. Altitude picked up the title from History Films and will release in November.
Altitude has also bought Little Monsters, the...
Altitude Film Distribution, the releasing arm of UK mini-studio Altitude Film Entertainment, has added four titles to its UK release slate.
The company has picked up rights to Andre Singer and Werner Herzog’s documentary Meeting Gorbachev. The film, which premiered at Telluride last year, sees Herzog interview the former general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to get an insight into his life and career. Altitude picked up the title from History Films and will release in November.
Altitude has also bought Little Monsters, the...
- 5/10/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: One of the most obvious but routinely encountered hazards for a growing distributor is over-reach: buying or marketing beyond your means. So far, that’s a pitfall UK outfit Altitude Films has avoided with aplomb.
Set up by former Optimum Releasing founder Will Clarke in 2012, the carefully managed integrated firm, comprising distribution, sales and production, is coming off its biggest year to date, despite the challenging UK landscape. Four movies crossed $1M for the distribution arm in 2017: Moonlight (which took a company record $6M), Loving Vincent ($1.4M), The Florida Project ($1.3M) and Lady Macbeth (1.1M). Six of the company’s top ten movies have been released in the last 12 months.
Much of the growing distribution slate is made up of rising UK talent (Michael Pearce’s Toronto drama Beast is released in around 70 screens this weekend), festival favorites and commercially-minded documentaries...
Set up by former Optimum Releasing founder Will Clarke in 2012, the carefully managed integrated firm, comprising distribution, sales and production, is coming off its biggest year to date, despite the challenging UK landscape. Four movies crossed $1M for the distribution arm in 2017: Moonlight (which took a company record $6M), Loving Vincent ($1.4M), The Florida Project ($1.3M) and Lady Macbeth (1.1M). Six of the company’s top ten movies have been released in the last 12 months.
Much of the growing distribution slate is made up of rising UK talent (Michael Pearce’s Toronto drama Beast is released in around 70 screens this weekend), festival favorites and commercially-minded documentaries...
- 4/26/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Folman’s previous work includes Waltz With Bashir.
Altitude Film Distribution has bolstered its UK release slate with two acquisitions at the Efm.
The company has picked up UK rights to Waltz With Bashir director Ari Folman’s upcoming animation Where Is Anne Frank?
Wild Bunch handles sales on the project, which is in pre-production and is inspired by Anne Frank’s diaries. The story focuses on Frank’s imaginary friend Kitty, who in the film comes to life in the family’s Amsterdam home.
Folman was granted access to the Anne Frank family’s archives for research. Producers are Folmans’ Purple Wale (Israel), Jani Thiltges for Samsa Film (Luxembourg), and Eric Gossen for Walking The Dog (Belgium).
Altitude has also picked up UK rights to Tom Volf’s feature documentary Maria By Callas: In Her Own Words in a deal with sales agent mk2 films.
The doc tells the life story of the titular Greek-American soprano, 40 years...
Altitude Film Distribution has bolstered its UK release slate with two acquisitions at the Efm.
The company has picked up UK rights to Waltz With Bashir director Ari Folman’s upcoming animation Where Is Anne Frank?
Wild Bunch handles sales on the project, which is in pre-production and is inspired by Anne Frank’s diaries. The story focuses on Frank’s imaginary friend Kitty, who in the film comes to life in the family’s Amsterdam home.
Folman was granted access to the Anne Frank family’s archives for research. Producers are Folmans’ Purple Wale (Israel), Jani Thiltges for Samsa Film (Luxembourg), and Eric Gossen for Walking The Dog (Belgium).
Altitude has also picked up UK rights to Tom Volf’s feature documentary Maria By Callas: In Her Own Words in a deal with sales agent mk2 films.
The doc tells the life story of the titular Greek-American soprano, 40 years...
- 2/18/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
High Point has confirmed the first acquisitions of Ed Boase’s urban myth-inspired horror, The Mirror.
Film Movement has acquired The Mirror for North America and Matchbox Films has taken the film for the UK and Australia/New Zealand.
The Frightfest pick is about friends who buy a supposedly haunted mirror on eBay.
The Mirror is already on release on DVD and on-demand through Matchbox Films in the UK, playing on Blinkbox, FilmFlex and iTunes Horror.
In Australia, the film is premiering on November 22 at Monsterfest, and is scheduled to come out on Bigpond and Quickflix, and iTunes, in February 2015.
The Us release through Film Movement is set for late January, with its Netflix release to follow in April.
“The festival roll-out and buzz among horror fans is beginning to pay off,” said High Point COO Julie Delaney who negotiated the deals.
“Both Film Movement and Matchbox Films are excellent distributors who understand the genre completely and we...
Film Movement has acquired The Mirror for North America and Matchbox Films has taken the film for the UK and Australia/New Zealand.
The Frightfest pick is about friends who buy a supposedly haunted mirror on eBay.
The Mirror is already on release on DVD and on-demand through Matchbox Films in the UK, playing on Blinkbox, FilmFlex and iTunes Horror.
In Australia, the film is premiering on November 22 at Monsterfest, and is scheduled to come out on Bigpond and Quickflix, and iTunes, in February 2015.
The Us release through Film Movement is set for late January, with its Netflix release to follow in April.
“The festival roll-out and buzz among horror fans is beginning to pay off,” said High Point COO Julie Delaney who negotiated the deals.
“Both Film Movement and Matchbox Films are excellent distributors who understand the genre completely and we...
- 11/10/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Hamish Moseley joins Altitude; first titles announced; “substantial” slate planned.
Will Clarke’s Altitude Film Entertainment has launched film distribution arm Altitude Film Distribution.
Former Momentum executive Hamish Moseley has joined the outfit as head of distribution.
Moseley spent nearly ten years at Momentum Pictures, stepping down as svp of theatrical sales in April. Prior to Momentum, he spent two years as a film buyer for Cineworld.
Clarke and Andy Mayson head parent company Altitude Film Entertainment which now comprises Altitude Film Production, Altitude Film Sales and Altitude Film Distribution.
First films on the slate will be Asif Kapadia’s Untitled Amy Winehouse Documentary and Morgan Neville’s Sundance documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, a tribute to backup vocalists, which has already grossed well in the Us.
Also on the slate is horror-thriller The Loch, co-produced by Altitude Film Production with James Watkins and co-written by Watkins with Simon Duric who will also direct. The film is...
Will Clarke’s Altitude Film Entertainment has launched film distribution arm Altitude Film Distribution.
Former Momentum executive Hamish Moseley has joined the outfit as head of distribution.
Moseley spent nearly ten years at Momentum Pictures, stepping down as svp of theatrical sales in April. Prior to Momentum, he spent two years as a film buyer for Cineworld.
Clarke and Andy Mayson head parent company Altitude Film Entertainment which now comprises Altitude Film Production, Altitude Film Sales and Altitude Film Distribution.
First films on the slate will be Asif Kapadia’s Untitled Amy Winehouse Documentary and Morgan Neville’s Sundance documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, a tribute to backup vocalists, which has already grossed well in the Us.
Also on the slate is horror-thriller The Loch, co-produced by Altitude Film Production with James Watkins and co-written by Watkins with Simon Duric who will also direct. The film is...
- 10/31/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Midweek releases help movies steal a march on the competition
A decade ago, release date etiquette was easy. Films opened on a Friday, with only the occasional movie sneaking out a day early. Most tickets were sold at the weekend, and this was the period that always featured in box-office reports. In an age of appointment TV, tempting audiences into cinemas midweek was a challenge.
Today, it's a different story. Friday is still the presumed release date for films, but exceptions are now so common they can barely be termed exceptional. This summer alone, we have seen films large (Avengers Assemble), small (Leave it on the Floor) and all points in between pursue a midweek strategy. Some releases worked (The Amazing Spider-Man boosted its opening tally with £4.3m of previews), others did not (What to Expect when You're Expecting added just £69,000), and the trend is showing no sign of abating.
A decade ago, release date etiquette was easy. Films opened on a Friday, with only the occasional movie sneaking out a day early. Most tickets were sold at the weekend, and this was the period that always featured in box-office reports. In an age of appointment TV, tempting audiences into cinemas midweek was a challenge.
Today, it's a different story. Friday is still the presumed release date for films, but exceptions are now so common they can barely be termed exceptional. This summer alone, we have seen films large (Avengers Assemble), small (Leave it on the Floor) and all points in between pursue a midweek strategy. Some releases worked (The Amazing Spider-Man boosted its opening tally with £4.3m of previews), others did not (What to Expect when You're Expecting added just £69,000), and the trend is showing no sign of abating.
- 8/3/2012
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
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