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Screen agency Film London has announced a new low-budgetfilm scheme in the UK,Microwave, which will fund ten low-budget films in the next three years. Each project can get up to $133,000 拢75,000 cash funding through FilmLondon including some BBC support , and film-makers can also raise additionalsupport up to a total budget of $178,000 拢100,000 . Film London sassistance will include waived location fees, in-kind support from filmservices companies, and a revenue share model from the unions. Because FilmLondon is non-profit, any monies recouped from the scheme will be reinvested. The programme s mentors will include directors Stephen Frears, Gurinder Chadha, and John Akomfrah andproducers
stanley website Sandy Lieberson, Jeremy Thomas, and James Schamus. Fiction, documentary and animation projects will beconsidered. Film London said Microwavewould emphasise tightly focused scripts, short production schedu
stanley cup les andcommercial potential. Applicants must be registered companies based in GreaterLondon, as Microwave is not open to individual film-makers. Applicants shouldhave made at least one short or no-budget feature and should have someexperience in production, marketing, and distribution. Applications will require a full shooting script, budget andschedule. Eligible films have to be primarily filmed and post-pr
stanley cup oduced in London.Completed films will be screened on one of the BBC stelevision channels and will also be considered for screening during the UKFilm Focus sales event. Microwave is Mqmy Sally Hawkins to play Northern Irish civil rights campaigner
Paramount Pictures will handle UK distribution; Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough star.Wild Bunch will handle international sales on new BBC Films spy thriller Shadow Dancer, with Paramount Pictures already on board for UK distribution.Oscar winner James Marsh Man on Wire, Project
stanley website Nim will direct. Tom Bradby wrote the script, based on his own novel.The project was high up on last years Brit List of the hottest unproduced screenplays.Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Aidan Gillen and Gillian Anderson will star in the film, which will start shooting in Dublin
stanley cup at the end of May.Riseborough plays a young mother involved in the Irish Republican movement, whose brother is killed by British forces before she is involved in a bomb attempt. Owen plays an MI5 officer who gives her the choice of informing on her family or spending her life in prison.Chris Coen of Unanimous Entertainment produces with Element Pictures Andrew Low
stanley cup e and Ed Guiney.BBC Films Joe Oppenheimer will serve as executive producer.Coen said in a statement: When I first read Tom Bradbys book I fell for the incredible story of one womans choice to betray her family to save her son or spend 25 years in prison. Working with Tom on the adaptation was a very fulfilling processand, three years later, to have such a terrific director and cast attached is nothing short of amazing. I am very grateful to the BBC, UK Film Council and IFB for all their support over the past few months. Christine Langan, Head of BBC Films, added:
