BFI Future Film Festival announces 2021 film programme, awards jury and award nominees
The 14th BFI Future Film Festival runs 18 to 21 February 2021, with free festival programme available online globally to aspiring filmmakers aged 16 to 25.
22 January 2021
The BFI today announces the programme of 45 short films that have been selected to screen in the 14th edition of the BFI Future Film Festival, which will take place online from 18 to 21 February 2021. The films, which will all be available to watch for free on BFI Player during the festival (UK only), are eligible for the BFI Future Film Festival Awards, supported by Netflix, the nominees for which are also revealed today. Three of the 10 awards will be judged by an esteemed festival jury chaired by Number 9 Films’ Elizabeth Karlsen, alongside activist and filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab (For Sama), broadcaster and filmmaker Reggie Yates (BBC3 Extreme Series) and actors Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) and Malachi Kirby (Mangrove
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1807 Birth of Robert E. Lee, Confederate general during the American Civil War.
1809 Birth of Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet (“Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Raven,” “Annabel Lee.”)
1847 New Mexico Governor Charles Bent is slain by Pueblo Indians in Taos.
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One of Severin Films’ big Black Friday releases was the documentary TALES OF THE UNCANNY, which features two very special extra discs for fans of anthology horror. Disc one contains
Eerie Tales (1919) and
Unusual Tales (1949), two underseen anthology horror flicks. But disc number two, surprisingly, features a 2K remaster of anthology opus MASTER OF HORROR (1965), a classic among Argentinian horror fans! Originally titled OBRAS MAESTRAS DEL TERROR (the actual translation would be “Masterpieces of Terror”) and directed by Argentinian maestro Enrique Carreras, this is a Poe inspired anthology film written by Narciso Ibañez Serrador (
Who Can Kill a Child?) and starring his father, Narciso Ibañez Menta, a cult figure in Argentina and Spain. Having MASTER OF HORROR released on Blu-ray in a 2K remaster from the dupe negative is more than a dream come true for Argentinian horror fans. We reached out to Severin’s capo David Gregory to ask him about this release
Edgar Allan Poe is known as an original writer of horror stories. Read and listen to this classic tale about a man who thinks he has committed the perfect crime. Not even the police think there is anything wrong - until the man starts to hear a heart. It is beating louder and louder.
She will also cover some of the tools needed to keep you going with the project.
Suitable for writers at all levels, this class is sure to boost confidence and make 2021 a year many seize the moment to start that book.
The session will be comprised of a one-hour masterclass over Zoom, a 10-minute break, and a second hour in which you can ask Jill your questions, chaired by writer Leigh Chambers, writer and presenter of Bookmark, Cambridge 105 Radio.
Jill has plenty of experience in the field. She is the author of 10 novels and editor of six anthologies of short stories and poetry.