Source: Screen International

Screen International Exclusive: Charlie Murphy and Flora Nicholson will lead the cast of Miss Pirie And Miss Woods, a true story LGBTQI+ drama from director Sophie Heldman and Winners producer Paul Welsh.

The UK has submitted Hassan Nazer’s Winners as its entry for best international feature at the Oscars. Set in a small Iranian village, the film follows two kids who go on an adventure to find the owner of an Oscar trophy they’ve discovered.

Screen International on Winners 

Hassan Nazer on Winners’ Audience Award win at EIFF 2022: “Winning the audience award at EIFF means everything to me. I have been working towards this since I decided to become a filmmaker.”

Variety, 24th August 2022

Source: http://film-directory.britishcouncil.org/bound1

Developed and EP’ed by ECF’s Paul Welsh, Joe Carter’s comedy short Bound wins the audience award at Dinard British Film Festival. Commissioned by SFTN, funded by Creative Scotland and BFI, handcuffed and hungover two strangers navigate Edinburgh’s ultimate walk of shame. Also developed with SFTN First Feature funding, Ben Sharrock’s comic drama Limbo picks-up the Jury and Audience awards at the festival.

Growing-up in Scotland in the late seventies, Rhona Campbell doesn’t know whether she wants to marry a boy. Or be one.

Rhona Cameron’s original 8-part series Lemon has been backed by Screen Scotland for development. Based on Rhona’s acclaimed memoir 1979 – A Big Year In A Small Town, the project is being co-produced by Edge City Films and Hat Trick Productions. Paul Welsh is developing and Executive Producing for ECF. Jimmy Mulville is Executive Producing for Hat Trick.

Source: BFI London Film Festival

Set in Germany at the end of World War Two, Australian director Cate Shortland’s much anticipated follow-up to her debut feature Somersault is based on the second story in Rachel Seiffert’s Booker-shortlisted novel The Dark Room. When her Nazi SS parents are taken into Allied custody, teenage Lore (newcomer Saskia Rosendahl) and her four younger siblings are left to fend for themselves…

Source: Indiewire

Umat Dag’s “Kuma” and Cate Shortland’s “Lore” tied for the 2012 Hamptons International Film Festival’s Golden Starfish Narrative Feature Award, with the Golden Starfish Award for Best Documentary going to Tora Mårten’s “Colombianos.”…

Source: Filmophilia

Melancholic and raw are perfect words to describe the film. It’s bleak and there’s an all-encompassing sense of hopelessness. The film is photographed in a handheld style, containing only a handful of steady shots. There’s heavy use of close-ups and extreme close-ups; it feels like art house home cinematography, giving of a strong sense of intimacy with the subject…

Source: Financial Review

Cate Shortland enjoyed such extravagant success with Somersault, her debut feature of 2004, that it is no surprise she has taken her time to come up with film No. 2. The surprise is that she has made a German movie, not an Australian one. Although Shortland has drawn on Australian production skills and funding, Lore is a German language film with German actors…

Source: The West Australian

Writer-director Cate Shortland made one of the great debuts in Australian film history in 2004, garnering a record 13 AFI awards for her lyrical teen-runaway drama Somersault.

It was also the only Australian movie selected for the Cannes Film Festival that year, kicked off the career of Abbie Cornish and revealed to the world the tender side of tough guy Sam Worthington…