The makers of Don’t Worry About Me made something rare: a film where restraint is a philosophy, not just a workaround. Here’s what the industry can learn from it. There’s a particular kind of courage in making a film about things that actually happened to you — and then deliberately fictionalising them anyway. Steven Louis Arnold, the […]
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Eight years after his debut feature Hippopotamus premiered at the Manchester Film Festival, Edward Palmer returns with a psychological thriller that signals a filmmaker hitting his stride, and a team worth watching. Palmer used the eight years between features deliberately. A series of shorts served as a directed apprenticeship: one built around an all-female cast
The twelfth edition of the Manchester Film Festival took place 19-29 March at high profile cultural city centre venues, with the annual awards ceremony taking place on Saturday 28 March that celebrated some of the finest emerging talent in the world of cinema. LIFEHACK, directed by Ronan Corrigan, took home the prestigious Golden Bee, while LITTERMATES, directed
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The animation studio quietly building an international footprint from the heart of Scotland At the Glasgow Film Festival‘s “Made in Glasgow” panel — part of a full day of talks celebrating the city’s screen sector and sponsored by production house Blazing Griffin — Andrew Pearce gave a rare look at how his brand new studio
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Talent, Tax Credits, and culture: Inside Halon’s Strategic Expansion to Scotland Halon CEO Chris Ferriter on building a transatlantic pipeline, why talent drove the decision, and how Glasgow fits into a rapidly changing animation and VFX landscape. Part of the Glasgow Film Festival, the Made in Glasgow programme—a full day of panels and events featuring
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Rap has always been obsessed with authenticity: where you’re from, what you’ve lived through, and whether your story is real. But the strange true story behind California Schemin’ raises a question the music industry rarely wants to answer: what happens when the lie sounds better than the truth? The film tells the story of two
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Opening March 2026 at The Lost Estate’s West London home, Chat Noir! is the latest creation from The Lost Estate, the company behind The Great Christmas Feast and 58th Street; celebrated for transforming live performance into fully realised worlds. Here, audiences will be transported to bohemian Montmartre of the 1890s, inside the legendary Le Chat
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Alive is a new 12-minute short film written and directed by Marc Nelson and produced by Double Six Productions. The film will premiere on 21 February as part of a private screening event, accompanied by a fundraising initiative in support of Andy’s Man Club. Structured as a dialogue-free narrative, Alive follows a single male protagonist,
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At the Edinburgh International Film Festival, acclaimed Iranian director Abdolreza Kahani presented his latest film Mortician. Known for pushing boundaries, Kahani shot the project entirely on an iPhone with no additional equipment, relying solely on natural light and a minimal sound setup. Working with only a handful of actors and no crew, he created a
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How a self-made journey from Jalandhar to Mumbai is now reaching global audiences Every once in a while, a story in the entertainment world arrives with the texture of a film script — unexpected beginnings, tough choices, and a moment that changes everything. Actor Ankit Raj Kashyap is living one such story. What he did
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