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  • Al Pacino honoured with BFI fellowship

    Al Pacino honoured with BFI fellowship

    MUMBAI: The Godfather star Al Pacino was honoured with the British Film Institute (BFI) Fellowship for his extraordinary achievement in films. The prestigious award was given to him by BFI chairman Greg Dyke and CEO Amanda Nevill.

     

    The 74-year-old actor-director follows British industry legends including Sir Michael Caine and the late Richard Attenborough in being awarded BFI Fellowship, its highest accolade for outstanding contribution to film.

     

    Pacino received the honour in front of a star-studded audience including Richard E Grant, Terry Gilliam and John Hurt at the Corinthia Hotel in London.

     

    Pacino’s illustrious career includes the Godfather trilogy, Scarface and Dog Day Afternoon, while his latest appearances came in movies Manglehorn and The Humbling, which debuted last month in Venice. He also won an Oscar for best actor in 1993 for Scent Of A Woman.

     

    He had also had success behind the camera with 1996’s Looking For Richard and Salome in 2013 among others.

     

    Since its inception in 1983 the BFI Fellowship has been handed to 78 recipients, also including stars such as Dirk Bogarde, Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith and Laurence Olivier.

  • British Film Institute draws plans to push UK film industry

    British Film Institute draws plans to push UK film industry

    MUMBAI: The British Film Institute has unveiled a three-pronged assault on driving the UK film industry forward over the next five years with almost $800 million rattling its pockets from the lottery, the government and substantial earned income.
    Unveiling its long-looking plan for the first time since taking up the bulk of the public funding duties for movies from the now-closed dow U.K. Film Council in 2011,the organisation noted the headline figure “sounded a lot” but wasn‘t that much spread across its ambitions.
    Entitled “Film Forever: Supporting UK Film 2012-2017,” the BFI‘s plans include pledging $52 million per year to British film and filmmaking, $71.3 million each year for education and audience development and pumping $16 million annually into film heritage projects such as digital restoration of the BFI‘s archives.
    BFI chairman and former BBC director general Greg Dyke said one of his main ambitions with the plans was to ensure the organisation was no longer referred to in certain circles as the London Film Institute.
    The BFI has pledged “more money for the production and development of U.K. films.”
    The cash available will rise annually to ?24 million ($38.7 million) by 2017, “with new opportunities for filmmakers working in documentary and animation and a greater focus on development.”
    The BFI aims to develop a “new talent network to discover, grow and nurture new voices and stories all over the U.K.” and has remodeled the old prints and advertising fund – renaming it the distribution fund – to try and reflect the myriad ways digital distribution has thrown up.