16/03/2007

In the latest round of Lottery funding, the UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has chosen to support the British releases of six foreign and arthouse films.

The biggest amount, €365,404 (£250,000), was allocated to Lions Gate UK for recent Oscar winner The Lives Of Others [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Florian Henckel von Donners…
interview: Ulrich Muehe
film profile] (see Focus) by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

Metrodome received €149,422 (£102,231) for Rachid Bouchareb’s Days Of Glory [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jean Bréhat
interview: Rachid Bouchareb
film profile] while Tartan Films picked up funding for two films: €219,242 (£150,000) for Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book [+see also:
trailer
film profile] and €7,308 (£5,000) for Ghosts by Nick Broomfield.

Park Circus received €43,629 (£29,850) for the re-release of the classic Casablanca, €7,308 (£5,000) went to Soda Pictures for Into Great Silence [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Philip Groening
film profile] by Philip Gröning and €5,115 (£3,500) to Optimum Releasing for David Lynch’s latest, INLAND EMPIRE [+see also:
trailer
film profile], which has divided critics and audiences perhaps more than any of his previous films.

Lastly, the UK Film Council's Audience Development Fund awarded €4.38m (£3m), to be given out over three years, to marketing agency Sledge for its new film website, myfilm.co.uk.