Film London has announced changes to its senior leadership team, with Helena Mackenzie taking on the new, expanded role Head of Talent and Business Development and Rose Cupit promoted to Head of Artists’ Moving Image. Mackenzie continues to oversee film and TV inward investment into London, running landmark projects such as the Production Finance Market (PFM) […]

Film London, the capital’s official screen industries agency, has announced four new board members across technology, games, production and independent filmmaking. The new appointees are: Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, award-winning director, Blue Story and Animol producer and founder of Joi Productions Fiona Lamptey (pictured), BAFTA-winning film and TV producer, founder of Fruit Tree Media and former Director of UK […]

US President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose a 100 per cent tariff on all internationally-produced films. Trump said he was authorising the Department of Commerce and Trade Representative to begin the process to impose the levy because he feels that America’s film industry is dying “a very fast death”. He blamed a “concerted […]

Responding to the Budget Statement from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Adrian Wootton OBE, Chief Executive of the British Film Commission, the UK Government’s national organisation responsible for international film and television production in the UK, said the announcements demonstrated “timely and welcome action” by Government, which would “significantly boost the UK’s world-class film and […]