BBC Films Talks Biggest Ever Sundance Slate, New Talent, Netflix, BAFTA & New Movies With Ruben Östlund, Reggie Yates & Anna Rose Holmer
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director Sean Durkin and former Film4 boss Tessa Ross on a new project about the Von Erich family, a dynasty of wrestlers. Finally, the London-based outfit is also working with writer-director Dionne Edwards and producer Georgia Goggin on their debut feature,. The London-set feature about family, gender and identity, is due to start shooting first half of this year.
Here’s our interview with BBC Films Director Rose Garnett, Commissioning Executive Eva Yates and Head Of Development Claudia Yusef.Souvenir . This year, BBC Films has five movies at the festival. Given the film team’s direction since you joined, that doesn’t feel like a coincidence…: This year, lots of great projects came together at the right time. But definitely when we got here and began to think about what success looks like and the landscape we want to be in, it felt like Sundance was the festival that we wanted to have a real presence at quite quickly.: I think it’s about admiring the festival for a long time.
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