The Occupant backed by UK Global Screen Fund
The new project is a minority co-production by Revolver Amsterdam
The BFI has made a further 14 awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, boosting global opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. Financed through the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the awards allocate over £2.2m through the fund’s International Co-production strand, supporting UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions and help create new global projects.
This latest round of awards sees the UK co-producing with 18 territories and will be the first time the fund has supported projects with Czech Republic, Georgia, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Saudi-Arabia, Ukraine and USA. The funding will also support partnerships closer to home with Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland and Luxembourg.
The funding, in the form of non-recoupable grants, supports UK independent companies as minority co-producers for feature films of all genres, and as majority and minority co-producers for TV projects in animation and documentary genre. The latest round of awards support ten feature films, including two animations and one documentary, plus four TV projects, including three documentaries and one animation.
The Occupant, a Netherlands, UK and Georgia co-production under the European Convention. The UK producer is the Electric Shadow Company (Jay Taylor and Kwesi Dickson) who will be co-producing with Revolver Amsterdam BV (Raymond van der Kaaij) and Georgian Studio Artizm (Lasha Khalvashi). The feature film, to be directed by Hugo Keijzer and starring British actress Ella Balinska, is represented for world sales by Altitude who have secured several key pre-sales. The Occupant is also supported by the Netherlands Film Fund.
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