All BFI articles
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News‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ is top grossing UK indie film in first six months of 2026
Market share for UK independent films falls 6.6%, down from 8.4%
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NewsNo Password Required scheme for Black and global majority producers returns with BFI backing
EXCLUSIVE: The programme is supported by the BFI Creative Challenge Fund, and run by Victoria Thomas’ Republic of Story and Akua Gyamfi’s The British Blacklist.
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NewsUK producers offer verdict on Isabel Davis’s BFI Filmmaking Funds director appointment
Screen Scotland executive director Davis takes over the role in October.
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NewsManchester Animation Festival launches BFI-backed animation development lab
EXCLUSIVE: Seven-month lab will turn animation concepts into fully developed packages.
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NewsBFI reveals next director of Filmmaking Funds
New director will take over from Mia Bays in October.
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NewsUK appoints new chancellor in role that controls government cultural funding
Burnham is first UK prime minister to have previously been culture secretary.
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NewsTrue Brit, UK Jewish Film key recipients of latest BFI audience projects funding
Dogwoof and Scottish Queer International Film Festival have also received support.
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NewsBritish Council relaunches £623,000 Travel Grant Fund to support international festival, lab attendance
Travel Grant Fund will complement UKGSF’s Festival Launch Support Fund.
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News‘I Swear’, ‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’ among latest UK Global Screen Fund recipients
Distribution grants have been given to 25 companies, totalling £703,956.
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NewsUK government launches wide review of National Lottery support, including BFI funding
National Lottery Good Cause funding covers around a third of the BFI’s budget.
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NewsWarp’s Mark Herbert, Bad Wolf’s Jane Tranter join BFI board of governors
’Slow Horses’ executive producer Hakan Kousetta has also joined the board.
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NewsAustralian and UK producers meet in London for major co-production initiative
Partner With Australia (UK) was initiated by Screen Australia and Ausfilm.
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NewsBFI to fund dedicated sustainability consultants on BFI-backed features
BFI will fund sustainability consultants on Filmmaking Fund projects.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office up in first quarter of 2026, boosted by book-to-screen adaptations
‘Project Hail Mary’, ‘Wuthering Heights’, ‘Hamnet’ and ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ have all been released.
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NewsBFI unveils £14.6m funding allocation for youth education and skills programmes
EXCLUSIVE: The 2026-29 funding round will see additional areas across the UK targeted, including Fife, Newham and Omagh.
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NewsUK film production spend dips 11% year-on-year in first quarter of 2026
However, local film production spend is up 69%
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NewsBFI to expand geographical reach of Skills Clusters Fund
EXCLUSIVE: In addition to £9m for its existing seven skills clusters, £2.9m has been set aside for new regions.
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NewsMia Bays to launch Dogma UK programme
EXCLUSIVE: Bays will work with Sigma Films producer Gillian Berrie.
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News‘A Town In Nova Scotia’ starring Bill Nighy sells to UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: Babak Jalali’s first film since ‘Fremont’ also stars Makram J Khoury.