Brits Fly the Flag In Cannes
The British film industry flag is flying high at this year’s Cannes Film Festival with four films selected for official competition and another 98 films offered for sale in the market. Hopefully, the newly established tax regime for UK filmmakers may now be generating some international business for new British films.
Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley and Andrea Arnold’s feature debut film Red Road, both National Lottery-funded feature films through the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund, are in the running for the main competition prize, the Palme d’Or. In addition, Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation, produced by the UK’s Recorded Picture Company and also supported by the Lottery through the UK Film Council’s Development Fund, is In Competition along with the British animated short, Film Noir by Osbert Parker.
Anyone in Cannes seeking information on British films, screening times, talent, distributors, sales companies during the festival, should head for the UK Film Centre, open from today, Wednesday May 17th to Saturday May 27th.