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Latest UK Film Council P&A awards

For information: the latest prints and advertising awards made by the UK Film Council.

For information, 19 April 2010

Here are the latest awards made by the UK Film Council's Prints and Advertising Fund:

Metrodome Distribution was awarded £110,900 for Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love, to widen distribution to 52 sites and boost publicity and advertising. An engaging drama set in Milan at the turn of the millennium, I Am Love follows an aristocratic Italian dynasty which begins to fall apart when matriarch Emma (Tilda Swinton) embarks on a passionate affair with her son's friend that will change her family forever. Breaking free from her austere and repressed existence, Emma discovers the freedom that love and sensuality offers but inevitably has to face the severe repercussions of her passion. Set to Pulitzer prize-winning composer John Adams's sumptuous score, and beautifully shot by cinematographer Yorick Le Saux. I Am Love opened in cinemas on 9 April.

The Works UK Distribution received £120,000 for 4321, to widen the film's release on 2 June from 200 to 250 sites and go towards publicity and advertising. Directed by Orange BAFTA Rising Star Noel Clarke and Mark Davis, 4321 spans three days in the lives of four very different girls. Jo (Emma Roberts) is chained down in a dead end supermarket job, Cassandra (Tamsin Egerton) is jetting off to New York to meet her internet boyfriend, Kerrys (Shanika Warren-Markland) is on a crusade for female liberation and Shannon (Ophelia Lovibond) is on a one way trip to meet her maker. But a chance encounter with diamond thieves sends their separate worlds on a collision course with not only each other, but fate itself.

Momentum Pictures received £12,100 to go towards exit polling for a dubbed English language version of the Swedish film The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in four cinemas, as part of research to gauge audience response to dubbed films in the UK.

A number of smaller awards were also made to widen the distribution of the following films:

  • African Film Tour for Ogbevire Christian Ashaiku's Disoriented Generation (£5,000);
  • Artificial Eye Film Company for Marco Bellocchio's Vincere (£4,697),Todd Solondzo's Life During Wartime (£3,846), Gotz Spielmann's Revanche (£2,812)and Claire Denis's White Material (£4,770);
  • Axiom Films for Peter Greenaway's Nightwatching (£5,000) and Pablo Trapero's Lion's Den (£5,000);
  • The BFI for Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (£4,650), Alberto Cavalcanti's Went the Day Well? (£4,760), Nancy Kissam's Drool and Russell Mulcahy's Prayers for Bobby (£800);
  • BritFilms Distribution Company for Justin Molotnikov's Crying with Laughter (£5,000);
  • Dogwoof for Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's No Impact Man (£5,000), Claudia Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow (£5,000), Erik Gandini's Videocracy (£5,000), Leslie Iwerks's Dirty Oil (£5,000) and Fredrick Gertten's Bananas! (£3,440);
  • Green Lions for David Bond's Erasing David (£5,000);
  • Guerilla Films for Jan Dunn's The Calling (£4,800);
  • High Fliers Films for Jean van de Velde's Silent Army (£5,000);
  • Matchbox Films for Rachel Ward's Beautiful Kate (£5,000);
  • Metrodome Distribution for Paul Andrew Williams's Cherry Tree Lane (£5,000) and Samuel Maoz's Lebanon (£5,000);
  • Network Releasing for Bahman Ghobadi's No One Knows About Persian Cats (£5,000) and Justin Kerrigan's I Know You Know (£4,833);
  • Optimum Releasing for Lionel Jeffries's The Railway Children (£5,000);
  • Peccadillo Pictures for Haim Tabakman's Eyes Wide Open (£5,000)and Pascal-Alex Vincent's Give Me Your Hand (£2,100);
  • Soda Pictures for Johan Grimonprez's Double Take (£5,000)and Frederick Wiseman's La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (£5,000);
  • Sons of Cuba Ltd for Andrew Lang's Sons of Cuba (£4,684);
  • The Roddick Foundation for Vadim Jean's In the Land of the Free (£5,000);
  • The Works for Christian Carion's Farewell (£5,000);
  • Trinity Filmed Entertainment for Rachid Bouchareb's London River (£5,000) and Ruben Östlund's Involuntary (£5,000);
  • Universal Pictures for Psycho (£5,000);and
  • Verve Pictures for Stephen Burke's Happy Ever Afters (£4,218), Clio Barnard's The Arbor (£4,600) and Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas's American: The Bill Hicks Story (£4.650).

For details of where to see any of these films, visit www.findanyfilm.com. A list of the UK Film Council's National Lottery awards can be found on our website at www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk.