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  'If you happen to be at the Edinburgh Film Festival this year, you must check out the following films:
  • 'Wasted' with cinematography by Lol Crawley and directed by Caroline Paterson and Stuart Davies, produced by Wendy Griffin
  • 'A Boy Called Dad' directed by Brian Percival and edited by Kristina Hetherington
  • 'Boogie Woogie' directed by Duncan Ward, with costumes by Claire Anderson and an all star cast including Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming and Danny Huston
  • 'My Last Five Girlfriends' written and directed by Julian Kemp and starring Naomi Harris. Based on the novel by Alain de Botton
  • 'Wide Open Spaces' directed by Tom Hall, with cinematography by Tim Fleming and edited by Kristina Hetherington
  • 'Unmade Beds' directed by Alexis dos Santos and with cinematograpy by Jakob Ihre
  Many congratulations must go to the team behind 'Moon' which has just won the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Film at Edinburgh. The film was edited by Nic Gaster, directed by Duncan Jones and stars Sam Rockwell

  More congratulations to Jacqueline Abrahams who won the BAFTA for Best Production Design for 'Wallander' at this year's Craft Awards. Well done!

  Huge Congratulations must go to Luke Watson and all those who worked on 'Criminal Justice' as they won Best Drama Serial at this year's BAFTA Television Awards.
Also 'White Girl', in which the costumes were designed by James Keast and production design was by Jacqueline Abrahams, won Best Single Drama, and 'Wallander' which won Best Drama Series, edited by Kristina Hetherington and also designed by Jacqueline. Big well done everyone!

  Congratulations to Kristina Hetherington who's two recent films 'Wide Open Spaces' and 'A Boy Called Dad' have been selected for the Edinburgh Film Festival

  Huge congratulations to Michael O'Connor, who can now add the Oscar for best Costume Design to his BAFTA for his fantastic work on 'The Duchess'. Well done Michael!


AT THE CINEMA

  'Leave To Remain' written and directed by Henrique Goldman and produced by Luke Schiller will premiere in Brazil on 26 June. 'Leave To Remain' tells the tragic story of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot in 2005 by British Police as a result of mistaken identity

Gael Garcia Bernal stars in football comedy drama 'Rudo y Cursi' about two brothers, Beto and Tato, whose fortunes drastically change when a football scout spots them but places them on rival teams. Edited by Alex Rodriguez for director Carlos Cuarón, and produced by Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro, you can catch the film in selected cinemas from Friday 26th June

ON TELEVISION

  After a very successful screening on daytime television the first episode of MOVING ON written by Karen Brown and executive produced by Jimmy McGovern will be repeated this Monday 15 June at 10:35pm on BBC1

  The third series of KINGDOM written and co-created by Alan Whiting and starring Stephen Fry begins this Sunday 7 June at 9pm on ITV1


IN PRODUCTION

  Writers

Jo Ho's fantastical childrens series 'Bo and the Spirit World' has begun to go into production for CBBC. Directed by Jon East the series is due to air late 2009

Nick Stevens is presently adapting 'The Savage Garden' by Mark Mills. Set in 1950s Tuscany, this is the haunting tale of family murder and deceit entwined with young, yet doomed, love

  Directors of Photography

Lol Crawley is currently shooting 'Here' in Armenia, directed by Brendan King for the production outfit Parts and Labour

Clerkenwell Films has started production on 'Paradox', their new sci-fi television series with cinematography by Ivan Strasburg and directed by Simon Cellan Jones

  Editors

Stuart Gazzard is now editing Bubonic Plague thriller 'Black Death', directed by Chris Smith for Ecosse Films

Kristina Hetherington is about to begin editing Mo Mowlam television biopic for ITV directed by Philip Martin

Alex Rodriguez is editing the CGI animation film 'Planet 51' for Future Films

  Production Designers

Rob Harris has begun designing 'Strike Back' the television thriller from Left Bank Pictures for Sky One

Tom Conroy is currently designing the fourth and final series of 'The Tudors' for Working Title and CBC

Simon Elliott has begun work on the sequel to the family feature 'Nanny McPhee', directed by Susanna White for Working Title

  Costume Designers

James Keast is presently designing costumes for 'Gracie!' directed by Brian Percival and produced by Janet Tyler for BBC4

Michael O'Connor has begun work on Kevin MacDonald's highly anticipated Roman epic 'Eagle of the Ninth'. Produced by Duncan Kenworthy of Toledo Productions

Louise Stjernsward is currently designing costumes for 'Dagenham Girls' set during the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham Car plant. It is to be directed by Nigel Cole and produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley of Number 9 Films

Tom Bowyer is presently designing Clerkenwell Films' new series 'Misfits' which follows a group of teenagers with ASBOs who get caught in a freak storm and emerge with superpowers. Directed by Tom Green and produced by Kate Crowe

Pam Downe is about to start designing costumes for the third series of the highly popular drama serial 'Larkrise to Candleford'



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