INDUSTRY BRIEFINGS
PINEWOOD TORONTO STUDIOS’ NORMAN JEWISON STAGE P inewood Toronto Studios has named one of its stages after legendary filmmaker Norman Jewison. An internationally acclaimed producer and director, the late Jewison’s credits include The Thomas Crown Affair and Rollerball . General manager Sarah Farrell commented: “His groundbreaking work was renowned throughout the world and it is an honour to have The Norman Jewison Stage on our lot.”
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UK GLOBAL SCREEN FUND AWARDS BOOST INDIE SCREEN SECTOR
T he BFI has announced 26 new awards to support global opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector through its UK Global Screen Fund (UKGSF). Funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, these awards provide a £2.15 million boost, allocated through the £7 million per year International Business Development (IBD) strand, which has now awarded over £9.1 million to date. With a goal of helping UK companies score new business partnerships, boost
their international profiles and increase revenue through export and expansion, the IBD support is awarded in the form of non-recoupable grants between £50,000 and £200,000. Funding tracks include Film Transformation for multi-year UK film strategies and General, covering IP creation and exploitation across film, TV, animation and video games. Beneficiaries of the latest round include notable production and games studios like Cantilever Group, NEON Films and
LEITZ LENS TEST TOOL ANNOUNCEMENT [ TASTY TOOL ]
C reative Gravity, the new exhibition at Cooke’s London gallery, explores the creative connection of cinematographer Lol Crawley and his regular collaborator, director Brady Corbet. Through a series of interviews, the pair reveal how they translate a script into a finely tuned visual language, and how their relationship has evolved. The pair teamed up for The Childhood of a Leader (2015), Vox Lux (2018) and, most recently, The Brutalist . [ GO & SEE ] DOP & DIRECTOR DYNAMIC IN SPOTLIGHT AT COOKE GALLERY
L EITZ recently completed its most extensive lens collection test yet, and the fruits of the team’s labour are now available for everyone to explore at leitz-cine.com/compare- lenses. This new tool enables DOPs and other filmmakers to side-by- side compare visuals achieved with different lenses on a single screen. The test features lenses from seven different sets
of LEITZ prime lenses, as well as the LEITZ ZOOM series. The scenes in the test were directed by lens aficionado Jay Holben and shot by Kaity Williams, with the visuals capturing a cinematic scene with multiple characters and camera movement that incorporates various lens features like close focus, distortion, usable circle of illumination, skin tones, bokeh, flare and more.
By switching between a variety of focal lengths and apertures, users can get a true sense of the features each series of LEITZ lenses has to offer. So, if you’re curious about the difference between the new LEITZ HUGO and LEITZ ELSIE optics – or are keen to see the coverage of LEITZ Super 35 glass on a full-frame sensor – this lens comparison tool is a great place to start.
The exhibition is open now until 1 April, book via cookeoptics.com
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