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2025

Creative Trio Join Saturday Night Live UK

UTAS UK Productions, which is part of Universal Studio Group, and Broadway Video today announced three key appointments to the creative team powering “Saturday Night Live UK”, which is coming to Sky and NOW in 2026. James Longman will serve as Lead Producer, Liz Clare joins as Director and Daran...


13th November 2025
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Netflix Expands Creative Asia at BIFF 2025

Netflix, in partnership with the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), is bringing back Creative Asia for its second year — bigger and bolder to celebrate BIFF’s 30th anniversary.  Creative Asia 2025 will bring together leading talent from across the globe, providing a unique chance for rising filmmakers from across Asia...


1st September 2025
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BFI Creative Challenge Fund reopens

The BFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund reopens today seeking applications from UK screen organisations to create and deliver targeted project development programmes for features or immersive projects. Awarding between £12,000 to £150,000 per programme, applicants must respond to one of multiple challenges to create development labs to focus on: early career producers; independent producers with ambitious projects...


14th April 2025
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2024

Apple TV+ scores at the 76th Creative Arts Emmy Awards

Apple TV+ was recognised with eight wins across five titles for the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, as hit drama “The Morning Show” lands Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling and Makeup (Non-prosthetic); acclaimed limited series “Lessons in Chemistry” wins Outstanding Music Composition For A Limited Or Anthology Series, Movie Or Special (Original Dramatic...


11th September 2024
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BFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund

The film industry is constantly evolving, with new talent emerging and pushing boundaries in storytelling and creativity. To support these emerging filmmakers and nurture their projects, the BFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund has been established. This fund aims to provide financial support and development opportunities for filmmakers working on...


1st May 2024
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2023

Filoni Named Lucasfilm Chief Creative Officer

Source: Hollywood Reporter – Film Dave Filoni is expanding his footprint in a galaxy far, far away. The longtime Star Wars force has been named chief creative officer at Lucasfilm. “In the past, in a lot of projects I would be brought into it, I would see it after it had already developed a good ways,”...


21st November 2023
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Tyler Perry Forms Creative Partnership with Netflix

Tyler Perry and Netflix have formed a creative partnership that will have Perry write, direct and produce feature films under a multi-year first-look deal.  Perry’s upcoming films with Netflix include Six Triple Eight starring an ensemble cast led by Kerry Washington about the inspiring true story of the the first...


24th October 2023
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Netflix Confirms Its Commitment to the Italian Creative Community

Rome, September 19, 2023 – Today at Italy’s See What’s Next event, attended by some of Italy’s biggest names in front of and behind the camera, Netflix presented an exciting slate featuring series, films, docuseries and unscripted shows, across a mix of genres, formats and languages. These films and series...


21st September 2023
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Creative Powerhouses: The Role of Producers in Film and TV

This BFI Film Academy Lab introduces you to the role of a producer. Producers play a crucial part in every film and TV project, being at the financial, practical, and creative heart of it all. In this session we explore the responsibilities of producers in the film and TV industries....


25th August 2023
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Sky Sports Seeks New Creative Voices

Sky today unveils a new production fund designed to uncover fresh talent in sports content creation. The New Focus Fund from Sky Sports will be open to independent production companies and content creators who bring new ideas and perspectives to storytelling across Sky Sports’ channels. Developed in recognition that traditional...


12th July 2023
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Netflix and Hansal Mehta Enter Into Multi-Year Creative Partnership

Netflix has announced a multi-year series partnership with filmmaker Hansal Mehta, after the launch of his maiden series with Netflix, Scoop. Taking this collaboration forward, Hansal will create multiple series for Netflix in the coming years. Scoop has been called a genre-defining series inspired by crime reporter Jigna Vora’s book...


26th June 2023
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Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds Of Powell And Pressburger

Tuesday 21 March 2023, London, 12:00. Today BFI announces CINEMA UNBOUND: THE CREATIVE WORLDS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER, a major UK-wide celebration of one the greatest and most enduring filmmaking partnerships: Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988). Bold, subversive and iconoclastic, challenging and changing the visual language of ‘British’...


21st March 2023
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