BBC One and Two will again transmit the celebrated Last Night of the Proms when the season comes to an end this Saturday, 8th September.Hosted Alan Titchmarsh live from London's Royal Albert Hall the night promises a rare performance of The Fourth Of August from The Spirit Of England, performed by tenor Andrew Kennedy. The season's Shakespearean celebrations are reflected with performances of Dvoř�k's Othello … [Read more...]

The Times BFI London Film Festival is looking for 25 talented and experienced filmmakers who are seeking to develop their feature film career to take part in Think-Shoot-Distribute.Now in its fourth year, Think-Shoot-Distribute brings together 25 elite, emerging filmmakers with international leading film professionals, including those with films showing in the Festival, in a unique, five-day talent development … [Read more...]

The New Producers Alliance are to run their 9 Point Producer Training Sessions at the newly re-launched BFI Southbank from this month.The panel based training programme takes producers, new and old, step by step through the process of, developing, packaging, funding, shooting and distributing a film. Participants may attend all nine sessions or choose individual panels.The NPA is the national UK membership … [Read more...]

The BBC have cemented their hold over hit US series Heroes with a deal guaranteeing them first refusal on all future seasons of the show. The corporation already has exclusive UK rights to the second series.According to the Guardian BBC2 controller Roly Keating has struck the deal with producers NBC Universal "guaranteeing that the BBC has first option on series three and beyond." The deal will prevent the series … [Read more...]