“Black Mirror,” “Silo” and “The Last of Us” were among winners at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards on Sunday night in London.
“Black Mirror” Season 6 was among a handful of shows to take home two awards, with creator Charlie Brooker and writer Bisha K Ali winning in the drama writer category while the show also won best photography and lighting in fiction category for the episode “Demon 79.”
The awards were a win for Apple TV+ with “Silo” and “Slow Horses” also each taking home two awards, the former for original music in fiction and production design and the latter for sound in fiction and editing in fiction.
Meanwhile “The Last of Us” director Peter Hoar took home an award for best fiction director.
Period drama “The Great” also picked up a gong thanks to costume designer Sharon Long.
The awards were hosted by Stacey Dooley and guest presenters included Katie Piper and Tanya Moodie.
“Black Mirror” Season 6 was among a handful of shows to take home two awards, with creator Charlie Brooker and writer Bisha K Ali winning in the drama writer category while the show also won best photography and lighting in fiction category for the episode “Demon 79.”
The awards were a win for Apple TV+ with “Silo” and “Slow Horses” also each taking home two awards, the former for original music in fiction and production design and the latter for sound in fiction and editing in fiction.
Meanwhile “The Last of Us” director Peter Hoar took home an award for best fiction director.
Period drama “The Great” also picked up a gong thanks to costume designer Sharon Long.
The awards were hosted by Stacey Dooley and guest presenters included Katie Piper and Tanya Moodie.
- 4/29/2024
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Black Mirror, The Last of Us, and Slow Horses were among the winners of the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2024, which were handed out in London on Sunday.
Silo, The Witcher, coverage of the coronation of King Charles III and the Eurovision Song Contest were also among the winners.
The craft award for best drama writer went to Charlie Brooker and Bisha K. Ali for Black Mirror episode “Demon 79.” Peter Hoar won the best director in fiction honor for his work on The Last of Us.
The ceremony, celebrating the best behind-the-scenes TV talent of 2023, was held at The Brewery in the British capital, an 18th-century brewery recast as an events venue.
HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon and the BBC/AMC medical comedy-drama This Is Going to Hurt won the most honors at the 2023 BAFTA TV Craft Awards.
There are more U.K. TV awards to be handed out soon.
Silo, The Witcher, coverage of the coronation of King Charles III and the Eurovision Song Contest were also among the winners.
The craft award for best drama writer went to Charlie Brooker and Bisha K. Ali for Black Mirror episode “Demon 79.” Peter Hoar won the best director in fiction honor for his work on The Last of Us.
The ceremony, celebrating the best behind-the-scenes TV talent of 2023, was held at The Brewery in the British capital, an 18th-century brewery recast as an events venue.
HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon and the BBC/AMC medical comedy-drama This Is Going to Hurt won the most honors at the 2023 BAFTA TV Craft Awards.
There are more U.K. TV awards to be handed out soon.
- 4/28/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Scheme is a week-long immersive directors’ residency for female and non-binary directors.
Irish professional development and networking initiative X-Pollinator has unveiled the participants for its latest programme, Creator.
A week-long immersive directors’ residency for female and non-binary directors, Creator commenced this week in Adare, Co Limerick.
Featuring workshops with actors and mentorship and guidance from industry experts, the residency is led by Maudie director Aisling Walsh.
The twelve directors selected for Creator are:
Aisling Byrne (Headspace - Cork International Film Festival Grand Prix Irish Short Winner) Andie McCaffrey (Sparkle - from The Actor as Creator scheme) Ayla Amano (4X4 -...
Irish professional development and networking initiative X-Pollinator has unveiled the participants for its latest programme, Creator.
A week-long immersive directors’ residency for female and non-binary directors, Creator commenced this week in Adare, Co Limerick.
Featuring workshops with actors and mentorship and guidance from industry experts, the residency is led by Maudie director Aisling Walsh.
The twelve directors selected for Creator are:
Aisling Byrne (Headspace - Cork International Film Festival Grand Prix Irish Short Winner) Andie McCaffrey (Sparkle - from The Actor as Creator scheme) Ayla Amano (4X4 -...
- 1/17/2023
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
You've heard me, scornful, harsh, and discontented,Mocking and loathing War: you've asked me whyOf my old, silly sweetness I've repented—My ecstasies changed to an ugly cry. You are aware that once I sought the Grail,Riding in armour bright, serene and strong;And it was told that through my infant wailThere rose immortal semblances of song. But now I've said good-bye to Galahad,And am no more the knight of dreams and show:For lust and senseless hatred make me glad,And my killed friends are with me where I go.Wound for red wound I burn to smite their wrongs;And there is absolution in my songs.—Siegfried Sassoon, “The Poet as Hero”Films about art and artists face different obstacles in making the art itself cinematic. A movie about a painter, like Pollock (2000) or My Left Foot (1989), can simply observe them at work. Keiichi Hara’s animated...
- 6/14/2022
- MUBI
Most biopics are thuddingly prosaic: There’s a lot of “this happened, then that happened,” performed by a famous person covering themselves in latex in an attempt to resemble another famous person.
In the hands of British auteur Terence Davies, however, biopics can be poetry, although his choice of subject matter probably helps in that department. On the heels of his gorgeous and contemplative “A Quiet Passion,” about the life of Emily Dickinson, he returns with another passionately quiet portrait, this time exploring Siegfried Sassoon in “Benediction.”
It’s an impressionistic collage, and Davies skillfully jumps from the 1910s to the 1960s and back again. “Benediction” fleetingly encapsulates the horrors of WWI — Sassoon went from being a decorated soldier to an outspoken critic against those who would prolong the conflict — the shadow-world of British gay men in the decades before homosexuality was decriminalized in the UK, and the bitterness of...
In the hands of British auteur Terence Davies, however, biopics can be poetry, although his choice of subject matter probably helps in that department. On the heels of his gorgeous and contemplative “A Quiet Passion,” about the life of Emily Dickinson, he returns with another passionately quiet portrait, this time exploring Siegfried Sassoon in “Benediction.”
It’s an impressionistic collage, and Davies skillfully jumps from the 1910s to the 1960s and back again. “Benediction” fleetingly encapsulates the horrors of WWI — Sassoon went from being a decorated soldier to an outspoken critic against those who would prolong the conflict — the shadow-world of British gay men in the decades before homosexuality was decriminalized in the UK, and the bitterness of...
- 6/3/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Some murder mysteries begin with murders; some begin with Mamie Gummer giving a lecture on a rooftop, arguing that all life springs from death, all death springs from life, and 90% of matter is invisible. “You can tell a lot by looking,” she tells her students. But in the world of “Out of Blue,” it’s the telling that takes up most of the running time, and it’s a little monotonous, if we’re being honest.
Patricia Clarkson stars as Mike Hoolihan, a detective investigating the death of astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell (Gummer), who was shot in an observatory shortly after that opening lecture. Rockwell’s death is no ordinary murder. It looks suspiciously like the work of the never-captured but long since retired “.38 Caliber Killer.” And all of the suspects are spacey intellectuals who pontificate about highfalutin concepts like Schrödinger’s cat and alternate realities when they should be telling...
Patricia Clarkson stars as Mike Hoolihan, a detective investigating the death of astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell (Gummer), who was shot in an observatory shortly after that opening lecture. Rockwell’s death is no ordinary murder. It looks suspiciously like the work of the never-captured but long since retired “.38 Caliber Killer.” And all of the suspects are spacey intellectuals who pontificate about highfalutin concepts like Schrödinger’s cat and alternate realities when they should be telling...
- 3/22/2019
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Russell Brand and Paula Patton have joined Oscar-winner Michael Caine and The Crown star Matthew Goode in family adventure film Four Kids And It.
Shoot is under way in Ireland on the feature which is directed by Andy De Emmony (West Is West) and follows four children who are horrified to learn that their beach holiday is in fact a bonding trip with their potential future step siblings engineered by new couple Alice (Patton) and David (Goode). During an argument, the kids accidently find a Psammead, a magical, sandy, grumpy creature called It (voiced by Caine) who can grant them one wish a day.
Brand plays the local oddball villain Tristan bent on capturing the Psammead for his own gain. The children at the center of the family adventure are played by Ashley Aufderheide (Infinitely Polar Bear) and Teddie Malleson-Allen (Swallows And Amazons) alongside Billy Jenkins (The Crown) and newcomer...
Shoot is under way in Ireland on the feature which is directed by Andy De Emmony (West Is West) and follows four children who are horrified to learn that their beach holiday is in fact a bonding trip with their potential future step siblings engineered by new couple Alice (Patton) and David (Goode). During an argument, the kids accidently find a Psammead, a magical, sandy, grumpy creature called It (voiced by Caine) who can grant them one wish a day.
Brand plays the local oddball villain Tristan bent on capturing the Psammead for his own gain. The children at the center of the family adventure are played by Ashley Aufderheide (Infinitely Polar Bear) and Teddie Malleson-Allen (Swallows And Amazons) alongside Billy Jenkins (The Crown) and newcomer...
- 7/19/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Production is underway in London and Rome on Richard Loncraine’s British comedy ‘Finding Your Feet’.
Screen can reveal an exclusive first look at Timothy Spall and Imelda Staunton in British comedy Finding Your Feet.
The film follows Lady Sandra Abbott (Staunton) who, after discovering that her husband of forty years is having an affair, takes up a community dance class with her sister, where she finds a new lease of both fun and romance.
The cast is rounded out by Celia Imrie (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), David Hayman (The Jackal), John Sessions (Mr Holmes) and Josie Lawrence (EastEnders).
Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon) directs the feature from a script by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft (Urban Hymn). John Sachs and Andrew Berg produce for Eclipse Films with Nick Moorcroft and Meg Leonard for Powder Keg Pictures, James Spring for Fred Films, and Charlotte Walls for Catalyst Global Media.
Executive producers...
Screen can reveal an exclusive first look at Timothy Spall and Imelda Staunton in British comedy Finding Your Feet.
The film follows Lady Sandra Abbott (Staunton) who, after discovering that her husband of forty years is having an affair, takes up a community dance class with her sister, where she finds a new lease of both fun and romance.
The cast is rounded out by Celia Imrie (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), David Hayman (The Jackal), John Sessions (Mr Holmes) and Josie Lawrence (EastEnders).
Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon) directs the feature from a script by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft (Urban Hymn). John Sachs and Andrew Berg produce for Eclipse Films with Nick Moorcroft and Meg Leonard for Powder Keg Pictures, James Spring for Fred Films, and Charlotte Walls for Catalyst Global Media.
Executive producers...
- 12/12/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Production is underway in London and Rome on Richard Loncraine’s British comedy ‘Finding Your Feet’.
Screen can reveal an exclusive first look at Timothy Spall and Imelda Staunton in British comedy Finding Your Feet.
The film follows Lady Sandra Abbott (Staunton) who, after discovering that her husband if forty years is having an affair, takes up a community dance class with her sister, where she finds a new lease of both fun and romance.
The cast is rounded out by Celia Imrie (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), David Hayman (The Jackal), John Sessions (Mr Holmes) and Josie Lawrence (EastEnders).
Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon) directs the feature from a script by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcraft (Urban Hymn). John Sachs and Andrea Berg produce for Eclipse Films with Nick Moorcroft and Meg Leonard for Powder Keg Pictures, James Spring for Fred Films, and Charlotte Walls for Catalyst Global Media.
Executive producers...
Screen can reveal an exclusive first look at Timothy Spall and Imelda Staunton in British comedy Finding Your Feet.
The film follows Lady Sandra Abbott (Staunton) who, after discovering that her husband if forty years is having an affair, takes up a community dance class with her sister, where she finds a new lease of both fun and romance.
The cast is rounded out by Celia Imrie (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), David Hayman (The Jackal), John Sessions (Mr Holmes) and Josie Lawrence (EastEnders).
Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon) directs the feature from a script by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcraft (Urban Hymn). John Sachs and Andrea Berg produce for Eclipse Films with Nick Moorcroft and Meg Leonard for Powder Keg Pictures, James Spring for Fred Films, and Charlotte Walls for Catalyst Global Media.
Executive producers...
- 12/12/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Production is underway in London and Rome on Richard Loncraine’s British comedy.
Screen can reveal an exclusive first look at Timothy Spall and Imelda Staunton in British comedy Finding Your Feet.
The film follows Lady Sandra Abbott (Staunton) who, after discovering that her husband if forty years is having an affair, takes up a community dance class with her sister, where she finds a new lease of both fun and romance.
The cast is rounded out by Celia Imrie (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), David Hayman (The Jackal), John Sessions (Mr Holmes) and Josie Lawrence (EastEnders).
Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon) directs the feature from a script by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcraft (Urban Hymn). John Sachs and Andrea Berg produce for Eclipse Films with Nick Moorcroft and Meg Leonard for Powder Keg Pictures, James Spring for Fred Films, and Charlotte Walls for Catalyst Global Media.
Executive producers...
Screen can reveal an exclusive first look at Timothy Spall and Imelda Staunton in British comedy Finding Your Feet.
The film follows Lady Sandra Abbott (Staunton) who, after discovering that her husband if forty years is having an affair, takes up a community dance class with her sister, where she finds a new lease of both fun and romance.
The cast is rounded out by Celia Imrie (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), David Hayman (The Jackal), John Sessions (Mr Holmes) and Josie Lawrence (EastEnders).
Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon) directs the feature from a script by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcraft (Urban Hymn). John Sachs and Andrea Berg produce for Eclipse Films with Nick Moorcroft and Meg Leonard for Powder Keg Pictures, James Spring for Fred Films, and Charlotte Walls for Catalyst Global Media.
Executive producers...
- 12/12/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Phase 4 Films is set to bring the serial killer thriller Hemorrhage to VOD tomorrow, June 1st.
The film hails from Canadian writer and director Braden Croft and Random Bench principal and producers Liz Levine and Adrian Salpeter. Brittney Grabill and Alex Mackie star.
Hemorrhage takes a creepy and deep look inside a man’s schizophrenic hallucinations as he tries to come to terms with the most basic and humane feelings of love, attraction and survival.
Read more...
The film hails from Canadian writer and director Braden Croft and Random Bench principal and producers Liz Levine and Adrian Salpeter. Brittney Grabill and Alex Mackie star.
Hemorrhage takes a creepy and deep look inside a man’s schizophrenic hallucinations as he tries to come to terms with the most basic and humane feelings of love, attraction and survival.
Read more...
- 5/31/2013
- shocktillyoudrop.com
The good folks over at Phase 4 Films have just sent over the official trailer and artwork for their latest terror tale Hemorrhage, and since it's Friday and we're all looking to get the hell out of this hellish work week, we figured we'd share. Not that we wouldn't have anyway, but still!
From the Press Release
Phase 4 Films is pleased to announce the world premiere of the serial killer thriller Hemorrhage, from first-time Canadian writer and director Braden Croft and Random Bench principal and producers Liz Levine (Toad Road, Camp Hollywood) and Adrian Salpeter (Toad Road, The French Guy).
The film, which can now be viewed on Video On Demand, stars Brittney Grabill and Alex Mackie. Hemorrhage was an official Selection of the Fantasia International Film Festival in 2012, where it garnered incredible reviews from some of the top entertainment and horror publications in the industry.
Hemorrhage takes a...
From the Press Release
Phase 4 Films is pleased to announce the world premiere of the serial killer thriller Hemorrhage, from first-time Canadian writer and director Braden Croft and Random Bench principal and producers Liz Levine (Toad Road, Camp Hollywood) and Adrian Salpeter (Toad Road, The French Guy).
The film, which can now be viewed on Video On Demand, stars Brittney Grabill and Alex Mackie. Hemorrhage was an official Selection of the Fantasia International Film Festival in 2012, where it garnered incredible reviews from some of the top entertainment and horror publications in the industry.
Hemorrhage takes a...
- 5/31/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Post-production on BBC drama 'Loving Miss Hatto' has been completed at Dublin's Screen Scene and Wicklow's Ardmore Sound after a successful four-week shoot in the capital. Screen Scene VFX and Ardmore Sound carried out full picture and sound post production on the project. Alex Mackie edited, with Dermot Grace assisting. Gary Curran supplied the grade with Warren Dowling finishing. John Stevenson was sound designer with Michelle Cunniffe editing the dialogue. Garret Farrell completed the final sound mix at Screen Scene's centre stage. Dee Collier supervised the overall post production.
- 7/23/2012
- IFTN
Lushly photographed and handsomely mounted, "Swept From the Sea" is a visual treat, radiating with incandescent seascapes and majestic swatches of the jagged coast of Cornwall.
Alas, all this brilliance amounts to mere preciousness in a narrative sunk by literal melodrama and a plodding pace. Receiving its gala at the Toronto International Film Festival, this Phoenix Pictures production is alternately enthralling and disappointing.
Inspired by a Joseph Conrad short story, the saga centers on two misfits who endure the stony rigors of the Cornish coast and its icy-hearted inhabitants. They are Amy (Rachel Weisz), a servant girl considered "simple" by the villagers, and Yanko (Vincent Perez), a Russian washed up on the shores following a shipwreck.
Amy has been an outcast all her life and has retreated into an inner world, nourishing it with romantic escapades along the beach where she collects cast-off treasures. Her solitary existence is altered considerably when Yanko washes up on shore: She is initially the only one to offer him kindness.
While Tim Willocks' screenplay is scrupulously attentive to plotting, it is also maddeningly thin. Every movement is noted, including the predictable ones, which compose nearly the whole of the picture. The narrative is, woefully, a paint-by-numbers composition as we watch the townsfolk in lock step isolate and ostracize the young Russian, despite his eagerness to please and wholesome industry.
If ever there was a story in need of subplot, this fills the bill. Its skeletal narrative structure is underdeveloped in terms of ambiguity, irony or any but the most obvious complications. In short, director Beeban Kidron has etched, albeit with a sumptuous visual palette, a transparent and ultimately unaffecting film.
Still, former still photographer Kidron is masterful in her framings and use of light. The Cornwall coast is captured in all its majesty and yet, because of the skimpy screenplay, Kidron's compositions never rise to the level of visual correlatives.
The performances are solid throughout, with the shining stars being the supporting players. While Perez exudes both a vitality and kindness as Yanko and Weisz is properly subdued as the introverted Amy, there is little spark to their portrayals. It's Ian McKellen as a pompous but wise local doctor and Kathy Bates as a perceptive spinster who conjure up the most flesh and blood in this oils-and-canvas production.
SWEPT FROM THE SEA
Phoenix Pictures presents
With the participation of the Greenlight Fund
A Tapson Steel Films production
A Beeban Kidron film
Producers Polly Tapson, Charles Steel,
Beeban Kidron
Screenwriter Tim Willocks
Inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Amy Foster"
Executive producers Garth Thomas,
Tim Willocks
Director of photography Dick Pope
Production designer Simon Holland
Music John Barry
Editors Alex Mackie, Andrew Mondshein
Costume designer Caroline Harris
Associate producer Devon Dickson
Color/stereo
Cast:
Amy Foster Rachel Weisz
Yanko Gooral Vincent Perez
Mr. Swaffer Joss Ackland
Miss Swaffer Kathy Bates
Dr. Kennedy Ian McKellen
Mr. Smith Tony Haygarth
Mrs. Smith Fiona Victory
Running time -- 114 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Alas, all this brilliance amounts to mere preciousness in a narrative sunk by literal melodrama and a plodding pace. Receiving its gala at the Toronto International Film Festival, this Phoenix Pictures production is alternately enthralling and disappointing.
Inspired by a Joseph Conrad short story, the saga centers on two misfits who endure the stony rigors of the Cornish coast and its icy-hearted inhabitants. They are Amy (Rachel Weisz), a servant girl considered "simple" by the villagers, and Yanko (Vincent Perez), a Russian washed up on the shores following a shipwreck.
Amy has been an outcast all her life and has retreated into an inner world, nourishing it with romantic escapades along the beach where she collects cast-off treasures. Her solitary existence is altered considerably when Yanko washes up on shore: She is initially the only one to offer him kindness.
While Tim Willocks' screenplay is scrupulously attentive to plotting, it is also maddeningly thin. Every movement is noted, including the predictable ones, which compose nearly the whole of the picture. The narrative is, woefully, a paint-by-numbers composition as we watch the townsfolk in lock step isolate and ostracize the young Russian, despite his eagerness to please and wholesome industry.
If ever there was a story in need of subplot, this fills the bill. Its skeletal narrative structure is underdeveloped in terms of ambiguity, irony or any but the most obvious complications. In short, director Beeban Kidron has etched, albeit with a sumptuous visual palette, a transparent and ultimately unaffecting film.
Still, former still photographer Kidron is masterful in her framings and use of light. The Cornwall coast is captured in all its majesty and yet, because of the skimpy screenplay, Kidron's compositions never rise to the level of visual correlatives.
The performances are solid throughout, with the shining stars being the supporting players. While Perez exudes both a vitality and kindness as Yanko and Weisz is properly subdued as the introverted Amy, there is little spark to their portrayals. It's Ian McKellen as a pompous but wise local doctor and Kathy Bates as a perceptive spinster who conjure up the most flesh and blood in this oils-and-canvas production.
SWEPT FROM THE SEA
Phoenix Pictures presents
With the participation of the Greenlight Fund
A Tapson Steel Films production
A Beeban Kidron film
Producers Polly Tapson, Charles Steel,
Beeban Kidron
Screenwriter Tim Willocks
Inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Amy Foster"
Executive producers Garth Thomas,
Tim Willocks
Director of photography Dick Pope
Production designer Simon Holland
Music John Barry
Editors Alex Mackie, Andrew Mondshein
Costume designer Caroline Harris
Associate producer Devon Dickson
Color/stereo
Cast:
Amy Foster Rachel Weisz
Yanko Gooral Vincent Perez
Mr. Swaffer Joss Ackland
Miss Swaffer Kathy Bates
Dr. Kennedy Ian McKellen
Mr. Smith Tony Haygarth
Mrs. Smith Fiona Victory
Running time -- 114 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 9/10/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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