BOOTLEG FILM INVESTORS SOUGHT

Local producer Leofric Films plc is making a feature film set in Coventry. The film,
called Bootleggers, will be made this year and the film company is looking for investors to get on board.

Swedish film Never Like the First Time! (ALDRIG SOM FÖRSTA GÅNGEN! ) last week picked up the Cork Film Festival Prix UIP award, rounding out the 14 nominations for the UIP European Film Awards short film prize. The film from Jonas Odell animates people's accounts of their first sexual experience and won the Golden Bear in Berlin earlier this year.

A little late in publishing the award winners for the Hull International Short Film Festival, but better late than never. I was lucky enough to visit the festival a few years back (when I first came across Virgil Widrich) and have always held the city in the very highest regard ever since, in spite of many a poll claiming otherwise. If you ever go - check out an awesome all-you-can-eat veggie buffet called Hitchcocks and if you can get to a Hutt Street party, then you can say you have lived. Anyway, to the awards..

The Times BFI London Film Festival hosted the European premiere of Stranger Than Fiction on Friday, at the Odeon West End. In attendance were the stars, Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman, as well as writer Zach Helm and producer Lindsay Doran. Suchandrika Chakrabarti reports from the red carpet...