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FEDERATION APPOINTMENT Federation Stories U. K. has appointed Beth Warin as the new head of development for the company. Warin will work alongside Polly Williams, managing director, and will be responsible for the company’s international drama production slate. Warin joins from the BBC where she was drama commissioning executive, supporting commissioning editors Jo McClellan and Gaynor Holmes editorially […]

Media entrepreneur and Luti Media founder Luti Fagbenle has launched a new TV production company called Osun Group, tapping “Supacell” producer Sheila Nortley as head of drama and exec producer. Osun will focus on compelling, high-end television, providing a comprehensive production framework with specialised teams across areas including production management, finance, legal, human resources and […]

In 2022, the world’s first-ever higher-education program for social media was launched in Tampere, Finland, and Finnish director Jussi Sandhu was given unprecedented access for his feature debut “But I’m No Influencer,” which is part of a showcase of upcoming Nordic projects being presented this week at Helsinki’s Finnish Film Affair.

Disgraced anchor Phillip Schofield, who resigned from ITV’s “This Morning” in 2023 after admitting to an affair with a PA, is planning a return to television. Schofield has filmed a new show for U. K. PSB Channel 5 called “Cast Away,” in which he is marooned on an island near Madagascar for 10 days.

The British Academy has selected Sandhya Suri’s acclaimed crime thriller “Santosh” as the U. K.’s submission to the Oscars’ international feature film category. The Hindi-language film, which bowed in the Un Certain Regard competition in Cannes earlier this year, enters the race perhaps carrying some added weight of pressure, with the U.

The Tokyo International Film Festival has unveiled a competition section with as many Chinese titles as Japanese for its 37th edition. Announced on Wednesday the festival’s full lineup runs to a compact 110 films, culled from a huge 2,023 applications, and functions partly as discovery event, partly as a Japanese showcase and also as best-of […]