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“The Repair Shop’s” Jay Blades has struck a first look deal with BBC Studios via his production company Hungry Jay Media.
Hungry Jay is a joint venture between Blades and production company Hunrgy Bear (“Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel”), which was founded in November 2020 by Dan Baldwin and Juliet Denison Gay.
The 1-year deal will mean BBC Studios has first dibs on Hungry Jay’s factual entertainment slate. Recent shows from the company have included “Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51” (BBC One) and “Jay Blades: There’s No Place Like Home” (Channel 5).
“I’m really looking forward to working with the team at BBC Studios and creating formats they can sell around the world,” said Blades.
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“Strictly Come Dancing” host Claudia Winkleman is set to front a new BBC One show called “The Traitors.” It’s an unscripted competition series set in Scotland.
Described as “an...
“The Repair Shop’s” Jay Blades has struck a first look deal with BBC Studios via his production company Hungry Jay Media.
Hungry Jay is a joint venture between Blades and production company Hunrgy Bear (“Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel”), which was founded in November 2020 by Dan Baldwin and Juliet Denison Gay.
The 1-year deal will mean BBC Studios has first dibs on Hungry Jay’s factual entertainment slate. Recent shows from the company have included “Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51” (BBC One) and “Jay Blades: There’s No Place Like Home” (Channel 5).
“I’m really looking forward to working with the team at BBC Studios and creating formats they can sell around the world,” said Blades.
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“Strictly Come Dancing” host Claudia Winkleman is set to front a new BBC One show called “The Traitors.” It’s an unscripted competition series set in Scotland.
Described as “an...
- 5/25/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
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Compensation
Visual effects and animation studio Dneg, whose credits include “Dune” and “No Time to Die,” will pay enhanced overtime to its U.K. employees.
From October, Dneg will pay overtime at 1.5x rate to all U.K. staff in non-management positions for all incremental time that they are asked to work beyond the standard 40-hour week. The move will bring Dneg’s U.K. overtime policy in line with its studios in North America and applies across its film and episodic visual effects, Dneg Animation and ReDefine operations, including its artist, production, technology and support teams.
The decision is a departure from the existing U.K. industry norm, where employees are compensated for overtime with paid time off after a project is completed.
Dneg has won multiple awards over the years. In 2021 alone, the company won the visual effects BAFTA and Oscar for Christopher Nolan‘s “Tenet.”
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Visual effects and animation studio Dneg, whose credits include “Dune” and “No Time to Die,” will pay enhanced overtime to its U.K. employees.
From October, Dneg will pay overtime at 1.5x rate to all U.K. staff in non-management positions for all incremental time that they are asked to work beyond the standard 40-hour week. The move will bring Dneg’s U.K. overtime policy in line with its studios in North America and applies across its film and episodic visual effects, Dneg Animation and ReDefine operations, including its artist, production, technology and support teams.
The decision is a departure from the existing U.K. industry norm, where employees are compensated for overtime with paid time off after a project is completed.
Dneg has won multiple awards over the years. In 2021 alone, the company won the visual effects BAFTA and Oscar for Christopher Nolan‘s “Tenet.”
Novator Capital Advisers...
- 9/13/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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The U.K.’s Broken Flames Prods. has entered into a partnership with producer Lucas A. Ferrara to form a new film fund for writers, it was revealed at Cannes on Friday.
The fund will provide an opportunity for emerging writers to get their projects financed and produced, with the winner also receiving a monetary stipend. Writers may submit original previously unproduced scripts of up to 15 pages, which have a mental health focus. The winner will have their film made by the team at Broken Flames Prods.
Lucas A. Ferrara, a New York based attorney, has produced over 100 features and shorts, including the upcoming “Find the Light,” starring George MacKay (“1917”), and “Pragma,” starring Phil Dunster (“Ted Lasso”). Ferrara has also produced three of Broken Flames’ projects, “Self-Charm,” starring BAFTA winner Bukky Bakray (“Rocks”), “Why Wouldn’t I Be?,” starring Harry Collett (“Doolittle”) and Elizabeth Berrington (“The Nevers”) and “Better...
The fund will provide an opportunity for emerging writers to get their projects financed and produced, with the winner also receiving a monetary stipend. Writers may submit original previously unproduced scripts of up to 15 pages, which have a mental health focus. The winner will have their film made by the team at Broken Flames Prods.
Lucas A. Ferrara, a New York based attorney, has produced over 100 features and shorts, including the upcoming “Find the Light,” starring George MacKay (“1917”), and “Pragma,” starring Phil Dunster (“Ted Lasso”). Ferrara has also produced three of Broken Flames’ projects, “Self-Charm,” starring BAFTA winner Bukky Bakray (“Rocks”), “Why Wouldn’t I Be?,” starring Harry Collett (“Doolittle”) and Elizabeth Berrington (“The Nevers”) and “Better...
- 7/10/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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Mia McKenna-Bruce, star of BBC and Netflix series “Get Even,” will headline Ella Greenwood’s “Smudged Smile,” a short film on teenage depression that kicks off a mental health anthology series.
Also starring are Elliot Levey (“Quiz”), Anna Acton (“Brassic”) and Priya Blackburn (“Bohemian Rhapsody”). Greenwood directs from a script by Hannah Westall.
McKenna-Bruce will play Zoe, a joyful teenager whose infectious zest for life elevates everyone around her. Her 16th birthday is coming up, and everything is going well in her world. But, struggling with her mental health whilst maintaining the goofy, happy image that everyone knows and loves, Zoe faces an inner turmoil that overshadows what is meant to be the most exciting night of her year.
The film is supported by teen mental health charity stem4. Greenwood is an ambassador for stem4 and is campaigning for better representation of mental health in the media.
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Also starring are Elliot Levey (“Quiz”), Anna Acton (“Brassic”) and Priya Blackburn (“Bohemian Rhapsody”). Greenwood directs from a script by Hannah Westall.
McKenna-Bruce will play Zoe, a joyful teenager whose infectious zest for life elevates everyone around her. Her 16th birthday is coming up, and everything is going well in her world. But, struggling with her mental health whilst maintaining the goofy, happy image that everyone knows and loves, Zoe faces an inner turmoil that overshadows what is meant to be the most exciting night of her year.
The film is supported by teen mental health charity stem4. Greenwood is an ambassador for stem4 and is campaigning for better representation of mental health in the media.
Oriane Pick and...
- 2/17/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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“Rocks” star Bukky Bakray will headline “Self-Charm,” a mental health themed film from writer/director Ella Greenwood.
The film will follow a young teen who is struggling with self-harm and so is recommended multiple alternatives by a therapist but each to no avail. The next suggestion she receives is to care for a plant as if it’s herself.
Greenwood’s Broken Flames Productions will produce the film. The company is building a slate of mental health based projects, including the upcoming “Faulty Roots,” Greenwood’s directorial debut with Melanie Walters (“Gavin & Stacey”) and Kayleigh-Paige Rees (“Sanditon”). Tallulah Films (“Little Miss Sumo”) is co-producing, with Karina Michel Feld as executive producer.
The cast also includes Hazel Young (“Nightmare on 34th Street”) and newcomer Agness Nyama.
Greenwood said: “I wanted to make a film about self-harm, something which is rarely spoken about and yet many people go through. I want...
The film will follow a young teen who is struggling with self-harm and so is recommended multiple alternatives by a therapist but each to no avail. The next suggestion she receives is to care for a plant as if it’s herself.
Greenwood’s Broken Flames Productions will produce the film. The company is building a slate of mental health based projects, including the upcoming “Faulty Roots,” Greenwood’s directorial debut with Melanie Walters (“Gavin & Stacey”) and Kayleigh-Paige Rees (“Sanditon”). Tallulah Films (“Little Miss Sumo”) is co-producing, with Karina Michel Feld as executive producer.
The cast also includes Hazel Young (“Nightmare on 34th Street”) and newcomer Agness Nyama.
Greenwood said: “I wanted to make a film about self-harm, something which is rarely spoken about and yet many people go through. I want...
- 12/1/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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‘Gavin and Stacey’ actress Melanie Walters and ‘Sandition’ actress Kayleigh-Paige Rees have joined the cast of the indie coming-of-age project ‘Faulty Roots’.
Set in Somerset, England, the movie follows two teens with different genetic conditions who are forced to form a friendship.
Dealing with mental health issues, Rees will play the lead character of Lola, a teen with depression, and Walters will play her mother Susan.
Writer/director Ella Greenwood will make her debut on the adaptation which is based on her short film.
“I want to give people a better understanding of certain things that you experience as a teen with a mental health problem, and I’m looking forward to getting to expand on this with a feature version of Faulty Roots,” said Greenwood.
Also in news – Sundance Institute and Picturehouse Cinemas announce online ‘Celebration of Sundance Film Festival: London’
Kayleigh-Paige Rees added “Young adults’ mental health has...
Set in Somerset, England, the movie follows two teens with different genetic conditions who are forced to form a friendship.
Dealing with mental health issues, Rees will play the lead character of Lola, a teen with depression, and Walters will play her mother Susan.
Writer/director Ella Greenwood will make her debut on the adaptation which is based on her short film.
“I want to give people a better understanding of certain things that you experience as a teen with a mental health problem, and I’m looking forward to getting to expand on this with a feature version of Faulty Roots,” said Greenwood.
Also in news – Sundance Institute and Picturehouse Cinemas announce online ‘Celebration of Sundance Film Festival: London’
Kayleigh-Paige Rees added “Young adults’ mental health has...
- 7/16/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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Exclusive: The Collection and Gavin & Stacey star Melanie Walters and Sanditon actress Kayleigh-Paige Rees have been cast in UK coming-of-age drama Faulty Roots, which will mark the debut of writer/director Ella Greenwood.
Set in Somerset, England, the movie follows two teens with different genetic conditions who are forced to form a friendship. Rees will play the lead character of Lola, a teen with depression, and Walters, who can currently be seen in the BBC adaptation of The Snow Spider books, will play her mother Susan. Filming is set to take place next year in South West England.
Pic is adapted from Greenwood’s short of the same name. The director is producing through her Broken Flames Productions with Raspberry Films, which is run by Kayleigh-Paige Rees with George Perry.
Walters is repped by Katie Threlfall Associates. Rees by Bba Management.
“I want to give people a better understanding of...
Set in Somerset, England, the movie follows two teens with different genetic conditions who are forced to form a friendship. Rees will play the lead character of Lola, a teen with depression, and Walters, who can currently be seen in the BBC adaptation of The Snow Spider books, will play her mother Susan. Filming is set to take place next year in South West England.
Pic is adapted from Greenwood’s short of the same name. The director is producing through her Broken Flames Productions with Raspberry Films, which is run by Kayleigh-Paige Rees with George Perry.
Walters is repped by Katie Threlfall Associates. Rees by Bba Management.
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- 7/14/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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Stars: Ella Greenwood, Sani Thabo, Sarah Greenwood | Written and Directed by Ella Greenwood
Written, directed and produced by 18 year old Ella Greenwood who, by the way, also plays the part of Lola here, Faulty Roots joins in the conversation regarding mental health and the prejudices that surround that segment of life. Lola suffers from depression and her Mum, Susan, played by Sarah Eastwood, arranges for her, against her wishes, to spend some time with Zack, a boy she hasn’t seen in many years. Zack is played by Sani Thabo, and has a genetic condition with no known cure. Their conversation surrounds Lola’s unwillingness to grab life and make the most out of it, which offends Lola, and she walks away.
The way the short 11 minute film opens a dialogue about such a deep and complex issue is quite astounding, with Lola being upset by her feelings that Zack...
Written, directed and produced by 18 year old Ella Greenwood who, by the way, also plays the part of Lola here, Faulty Roots joins in the conversation regarding mental health and the prejudices that surround that segment of life. Lola suffers from depression and her Mum, Susan, played by Sarah Eastwood, arranges for her, against her wishes, to spend some time with Zack, a boy she hasn’t seen in many years. Zack is played by Sani Thabo, and has a genetic condition with no known cure. Their conversation surrounds Lola’s unwillingness to grab life and make the most out of it, which offends Lola, and she walks away.
The way the short 11 minute film opens a dialogue about such a deep and complex issue is quite astounding, with Lola being upset by her feelings that Zack...
- 3/19/2020
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
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