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Great Migrations selects 12 projects from East, Southeast Asian creators for BFI-backed development programme

Screen Daily 25 Feb 2026
Backed by the BFI Creative Challenge Fund, the lab aims to address historical under-representation of ESEA creatives in the UK screen sector ... said Mia Bays, director of the BFI Filmmaking Fund.
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BFI-backed Gatecrashers lab for working-class genre writers unveils cohort

Screen Daily 20 Feb 2026
Davison and Zadeh previously collaborated on the BFI-backed Darkroom Writers’ Lab. Gatecrashers is delivered by Sona Films and backed by the BFI Creative Challenge Fund, awarding National Lottery funding.
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’Madfabulous’ among world premieres at BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2026

Screen Daily 18 Feb 2026
BFI Flare ... UK writer-producer Russell T Davies, whose credits span  and upcoming Channel 4 series will give this year’s BFI Flare Screen Talk. The festival once again takes place at the BFI ...
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LGBTQIA+ lives on film: Top 8 highlights from the BFI Flare festival

London Evening Standard 17 Feb 2026
Diana Cipriano, one of the programmers for the 40th Anniversary of BFI Flare, chooses her highlights of the UK largest LGBTQIA+ film festival ... .
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BFI documentary funding receives 20% boost

Screen Daily 16 Feb 2026
The British Film Institute (BFI) is investing £7.2m of National Lottery funding from 2026-29 for documentary filmmaking, an increase of 20% from the previous three-year period ... Moody, head of BFI Doc Society Fund.
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BFI-backed Matchmakers Global South Lab includes Bêtes Sauvages, Lunar Pictures producers

Screen Daily 15 Feb 2026
EXCLUSIVE. Projects from Bêtes Sauvages and Lunar Pictures are among the 10 features selected for the inaugural Matchmakers Global South Lab ... Scroll down for the full list of projects ... Adesunloye ... Latin America. , prod. Dario Bocchini. , prod ... , prod ... , prod.
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19 Best Romantic Comedies And Epic Movie Love Stories To Stream This Valentine's Day

Huffington Post 14 Feb 2026
A selection of romantic films that are available to stream this Valentine's Day ... Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman ... Stream it on. Disney+Ghost (1990) ... Stream it on ... BFI PlayerCall Me By Your Name (2017) ... BFI PlayerThe Shape Of Water (2017) ... .
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Stranger Films Sales boards CPH:DOX-bound, BFI-backed ‘Something Familiar’ for world sales

Screen Daily 12 Feb 2026
EXCLUSIVE ... follows a filmmaker helping a woman search for her birth mother ... The film has production support from the BFI Doc Society Fund and the Romanian Film Center; and received development support from Creative Media Europe ... .
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Projects from Caspian Films, Sixteen Films selected for BFI-backed UK impact lab

Screen Daily 11 Feb 2026
It is run by Impact Together, the non-profit entity from UK marketing, distribution and sales company Together Films and has backing from the BFI Creative Challenge Fund, launched in October 2023.
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BFI-backed The Business of Impact Lab & Pitch selects 10 projects including Caspian Films, Wellington Films titles

Screen Daily 11 Feb 2026
It is run by Impact Together, the non-profit entity from UK marketing, distribution and sales company Together Films; and has backing from the BFI Creative Challenge Fund, launched in October 2023.
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Projects from Caspian Films, Sixteen Films and Wellington Films selected for BFI-backed UK impact lab

Screen Daily 11 Feb 2026
It is run by Impact Together, the non-profit entity from UK marketing, distribution and sales company Together Films and has backing from the BFI Creative Challenge Fund, launched in October 2023.
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Boom time for anti-racist TV: how an £84 bottle of wine triggered an explosion in ...

The Guardian 11 Feb 2026
In the 1980s, spearheaded by Channel 4, British TV stopped telling Black and Asian people how to assimilate and gave them a voice. A golden age of dissent, activism and culture ensued – but have we since gone backwards? ... ....
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James Sweeney Interview: 'Twinless Is Exactly The Film I Wanted To Make'

Huffington Post 07 Feb 2026
Dylan O'Brien and James Sweeney as Roman and Dennis in the dark comedy Twinless ... You know what’s so funny, of those three, I’ve only seen Fatal Attraction ... I do love a stalker girl film, though, whether it’s Swimfan or Wicker Park ... It’s a mixed bag ... .
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Hollywood money fuelled record £2.8bn spend on UK film production last year

The Guardian 05 Feb 2026
Growth expected to slow as Netflix pulls back projects to US to secure $80bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery ... ....
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