BFI International News – winter 2018

Animation 2018, BFI / Juno Films partnership, Margaret Tait at 100 and more.

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Animation 2018

The Penguin Who Couldn’t Swim (2018)

The Penguin Who Couldn’t Swim (2018)

Loneliness, loss, love and libido are just some of the subjects explored in a new programme of animated short films, commissioned through Animation 2018, the prestigious programme from the BFI and BBC Four, designed to find and support the UK’s most exciting new and emerging animators.

Each film received production grants and will be broadcast on BBC Four in December, following a launch event at BFI Southbank, London, on 19 November.

A selection of the animations are available to license now from the BFI. For more information please contact our .

BFI / Juno Films partnership

Shiraz (1928) / Arcadia (2017)

Shiraz (1928) / Arcadia (2017)

The BFI National Archive’s restoration of Shiraz (1928) has crossed the Atlantic and starts a US tour this December.

Acquired by our North American distribution partner, Juno Films, Shiraz screens in Chicago, Albuquerque, New York and Denver and is available now for booking across the US.

Juno Films will also be bringing Arcadia (2017) to the North American market in the first half of 2019.

For US booking enquiries please contact Juno Films directly, and to discuss licensing opportunities in your territory please email our .

BFI titles on tour

Documentary Centre, Guangzhou

Drifters (1929)

Drifters (1929)

We are proud to be collaborating with Guangzhou Library and the Guangzhou Documentary Film Festival on the launch of their dedicated, new Documentary Centre. They will be screening Drifters (1929), Night Mail (1936) and Industrial Britain (1931), from pioneering British filmmaker John Grierson, who first coined the term ‘documentary’.

BFI and Korean Film Archive

The Informer (1929)

The Informer (1929)

BFI is pleased to announce an exchange of archive restorations with the Korean Film Archive, in association with the Korean Cultural Centre UK.

In February 2019, BFI Southbank and KCCUK in London will screen every known surviving Korean film made before 1945 — many showing in the UK for the first time — while Korean audiences will be able to see BFI National Archive restorations of classic British films this December.

The programme of 11 BFI Treasures includes The Informer (1929), Shooting Stars (1928) and the BFI’s new restoration of Terence Davies’ Distant Voices, Still lives (1988), in addition to work by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Derek Jarman, Margaret Tait and Ken Russell.

Black Star at TIFF

Tell Me Sweet Something (2015)

Tell Me Sweet Something (2015)

Inspired by the BFI’s original groundbreaking programme at BFI Southbank, TIFF ran a second edition of Black Star in October, in what they hope will become an annual event celebrating black excellence on screen.

BFI-talia

The Edge of the World (1937)

The Edge of the World (1937)

And finally, two BFI restorations screened at festivals in Italy this month. The DCP of The Edge of the World (1937) screened at the 36th Torino Film Festival, as part of a complete retrospective of the films of Powell and Pressburger, whilst Shiraz screened at Cinema La Compagnia for the 18th edition of River to River, the Florence Indian Film Festival on 8 December.

For queries about screenings or live events please contact , and to discuss working together please contact International Enquiries.

Margaret Tait at 100

Blue Black Permanent (1992)

Blue Black Permanent (1992)

11 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of acclaimed poet-filmmaker Margaret Tait and the launch of centenary events across the world.

The director of many distinctive short films, over a long and illustrious career, Tait directed just one feature film late in her life: the partly autobiographical Blue Black Permanent (1992).

Newly remastered in 2K to mark the centenary, the film — the first directed by a Scottish woman — explores loss and remembrance in characteristically bold and original fashion, encapsulating Tait’s innovative and passionate approach to the medium.

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