After an exciting 11 days of screenings, networking and informative panel talks, the 2024 BFI London Film Festival has come to a close. To conclude the festivities, the winners of this year’s LFF Awards. The winning films touched on all elements of filmmaking from stop-motion animation to powerful documentary formats.
The winners for CICLOPE 2024 have been announced. Marking the biggest festival to date, CICLOPE gathered at the prestigious Konzertsaal der UdK to award the top performers in craft and creativity. Grand Prix winners selected include talents from across the global creative industry including NOMINT, Iconoclast, The Youth, Ogilvy and more.
Today marks the start of CICLOPE Festival 2024. The festival centred around craft across commercial, music videos and short films, will take place from 8-10 October in Berlin. This year’s festival will welcome a slate of esteemed speakers including Stink president Daniel Bergman, Barking Owl’s managing director Carol Dunn, writer, actor, producer and director Sharon Horgan, and many more. The three day event will conclude with the announcement of the CICLOPE Awards on 10 October.
Last week the fourth edition of Iberseries & Platino Industria (I&PI) took place in Madrid. The event, sponsored by Madrid Film Office, the audiovisual office of the Madrid City Council, once again turned the city into the global epicentre of Spanish and Portuguese speaking film and audiovisual production. More than 980 companies and 2,000 professionals from nearly 50 Ibero-American countries have met to promote synergies between different industries and stimulate the development of new projects and co-productions of series and films.
Six winners have been announced for The Hot House 2024 writers’ lab through Climate Spring. The winning writers will have their original screenplays developed as well as receive GBP 1,000 each from Climate Spring and other high level editorial and industry support. The lab, in partnership with Film London and BBC Writers, will conclude with an industry showcase where the projects will be up for production deals and further development funding in collaboration with Climate Spring’s production company partners.
After a week of judging at Kinsale last week by 38 judges, sitting across 7 different panels for advertising, digital, social and design, the Shark Awards have announced their shortlist for 2024. Creative projects by some of the world’s biggest agencies fall into 100 shortlisted positions. Winners will be revealed on 14 October and presented at the winners party in London on 24 October.
The Irish government and minister of finance Jack Chambers T.D announced today in the Budget 2025 an 8% uplift for the local film and television incentive. This uplift will apply to feature film productions with a maximum global budget of EUR 20 million (GBP 16.7 million) and joins the additional introduction of a 20% tax incentive for unscripted production.
The Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB) have announced the six winners for their biennial awards on 14 September. The teams of Supacell and Wonka were amongst the winners of the night, as well as David Heyman who took home The PGGB Contribution to the Industry Award 2024. The evening celebrating the organisation’s members and their achievements in the UK film and HETV industry, was hosted by presenter and actor Patrick Kielty at The Grove Hotel in Hertfordhshire.