Seventeen productions that contributed to the ScreenSkills Film Skills Fund have been selected to play at this year’s London Film Festival. Running from 8 - 19 October, the festival brings the best of national and international cinema to the capital with films playing across a host of strands and gala screenings.
Closing the festival is the adaptation of fantasy graphic novel 100 Nights of Hero, featuring an early screen turn from singer Charli XCX. Screen adaptations of two more literary heavyweights receive their UK premiere as H is for Hawk and Hamnet, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, receive their UK premieres.
Bugonia, the latest release from Oscar-winning director Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) plays as one of the festival’s gala screenings, as do fellow Fund contributors After the Hunt, The Choral and Pillion.
Cornish director Mark Jenkin brings his unique style to the festival as his latest film, Rose of Nevada, plays as part of the official competition. There are four further contributing productions competing for awards as Dreamers, Ish, My Father’s Shadow and Super Nature have each been selected for the first feature competition.
Elsewhere, The Thing with Feathers, adapted from Max Porter’s novella, Hamlet, Retreat, The Son and the Sea, and Good Boy have been named among the line-up, featuring as part of the love, dare, thrill and journey strands respectively.
In addition to contributing to the Fund, each of the 17 titles offered placements to candidates taking part in programmes developed and supported by the Fund. These provide vital on-the-job learning for those at different stages of their career, from new entrants via Trainee Finder, or mid-level progression through the likes of the Film Forward or Make a Move programme.
We congratulate each of the productions for their selection and thank them for their contribution.