Call for entries for the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, October 2007 Glasgow is set to host the first Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film festival, in celebration of World Mental Health Day. With one in four people experiencing a mental health trouble at some point in their life, it's a ripe area for exploration, as the DFG's Andy Glyne demonstrated a few years back…

  British films by directors Kenneth Branagh, Ken Loach and Peter Greenaway are in competition for the top prize at this year's Venice Film Festival. British and US films dominate this year's selection, with Atonement, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, previously announced as the opening film in competition for the Golden Lion.

    Simon Miller's shoestring budget feature made in Gaelic language Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle is to premier at Edinburgh IFF and will be in contention for the Michael Powell Award. Seachd (pronounced "shack")was picked up by Soda for UK and Ireland distribution at this years's Cannes film market. There is strong international interest in Seachd alre…

The Melbourne International Film Festival kicks off on  25th July with the Michael Moore offering, Sicko, which takes a critical view of the American health service - and sometimes a rather too rosy one of our very own NHS.  

Some 12,000 fans were at the Hallam FM Arena, with more at BBC big screens in Leeds, Bradford and Rotherham, to witness the stars arrive at the annual Indian film awards. The event is held in a different location around the world each year to increase the profile of Bollywood film. Some 10% of income for Bollywood films come from outside India and Pakistan, while the UK is the sec…

Your Last Chance to Submit to the UK's Largest Indie Film Festival   Raindance, the UK’s largest independent film festival, is accepting final submissions for its fifteenth anniversary edition. We are accepting shorts and features of all genres from anywhere in the world. The festival dates have been set for 26th September to 7th October 2007 and we will be accepti…

 CANNES DEBUT FOR ROGUE RUNNER MOBILE STUDIO RogueRunner are excited to announce the formation of the UK's smallest film studio. So small in fact that it fits inside a Ford transit van. The creation of Director Dan Hartley who began his film career driving around Ewan, Jude and Bob and then went on to create the position of ‘floor editor' on the Harry Potter films, th…

As Cannes puts the finishing touches to its 60th edition, we're just making plans for the launch there of our new world funding book on May 16th.  With information on funding and tax incentives in over 50 countries, details of more than 1000 funds around the world,  a new chapter on the Internet, 400 entry glossary and significantly expanded information about low and microbudget…

DepicT! short film competition, part of the renowned Encounters International Short Film Festival (Wed 21 – Sun 25 Nov ‘07), once again challenges filmmakers from across the globe to come up with a compelling, imaginative idea and distil it into 90 seconds of cinematic originality. Not only will shortlisted films gain priceless industry exposure at Encounters, “Th…