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The ICO team shares some of their highlights from this year’s BFI London Film Festival, including new work from Lucrecia Martel, Vincho Nchogu, Park Chan-wook, Carla Simón and more.
In this blog, ICO Projects and Business Manager Duncan Carson takes a trip to the deepest depths exhibitors may need to visit when searching for and procuring film rights. Sharing insights from personal and peer experience, he offers advice, alternative places to look, and guidance on staying positive when a hunt for a film screening license gets complicated.
The ICO team shares some of their highlights from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, including new work from Shih-Ching Tsou, Valery Carnoy, and Lynne Ramsay.
In our penultimate blog of the year, the ICO team looks back on their favourite cinematic moments and exhibition highlights of 2024.
In this blog, the ICO team highlight some of their favourite titles from this year’s 68th BFI London Film Festival, including new work by some familiar faces, as well as several exciting debuts.
Last month, the ICO's Duncan Carson and Sami Abdul-Razzak headed to Bologna for this year's Il Cinema Ritrovato - the Cineteca di Bologna's annual festival showcasing the latest restorations and rediscoveries from archives and film laboratories around the world. In this blog, they share a few of their highlights.
In this blog, the ICO team highlights some of the titles from this year’s Berlin Film Festival that we’re most excited to see reach UK cinemas over the coming year, including new work by Mati Diop, Levan Akin and Jane Schoenbrun.
The ICO team share their cinematic highlights of 2023. Did we miss your favourite? Let us know on X or Instagram!
Content notices are a contentious area. Some see them as a duty of care that film exhibitors owe to their audience, while others say they're an unnecessary measure and can even be counterproductive. In this blog, the ICO's Duncan Carson speaks to film professionals who have introduced content notices about their experience and what the benefits and challenges are, as well as looking at academic research in this area.
In the first blog of two, we share some of the films from the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival that we are most excited to see reach independent cinemas and festivals across the UK over the coming year.
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