After Love writer\/director Aleem Khan has been shortlisted for this year’s IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award which is announced over this year’s LFF.<\/p>\n
Michaela Coel will lead the judging panel to decide this year\u2019s winner. The bursary is the most significant of its kind in the UK film industry and is designed to support the future careers of exceptional new UK film talent.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0BFI<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0IWC<\/span>\u00a0Schaffhausen today reveal the 3 filmmakers shortlisted for the\u00a0IWC<\/span>\u00a0Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with the\u00a0BFI<\/span>. At \u00a350k, and now in its fifth year, it has established itself as the most significant bursary of its kind in the\u00a0UK<\/span>\u00a0film industry, expressly designed to support the future careers of exceptional new\u00a0UK<\/span>\u00a0film\u00a0talent.<\/p>\n The 2020 shortlist are Cathy Brady, writer-director of her debut feature Wildfire, Aleem Khan, writer-director of his debut feature After Love, and Francis Lee, writer-director of his second feature\u00a0Ammonite.<\/p>\n The bursary is presented in recognition of outstanding\u00a0UK<\/span>\u00a0talent at the beginning or early stages of their careers and is designed to support a writer and\/or director by providing them with the financial stability and time needed to develop their creativity. It affords them the freedom to focus on future projects without the pressure of deadlines or the distraction of taking paid work \u2013 a precious and extremely rare opportunity for a\u00a0filmmaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Previous recipients include writer-directors Rose Glass (Saint Maud) in 2019, Richard Billlingham (Ray\u00a0&<\/span>\u00a0Liz) in 2018 and Daniel Kokotajlo (Apostasy) in 2017. Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling) was awarded the first bursary in 2016. Dickson Leach, co-founder of Raising Films, campaigns for improved working practices for parents and carers and is currently developing several new feature films in the\u00a0US<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0UK<\/span>. Following their wins, Daniel Kokotajlo and Richard Billingham were both nominated for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer at the\u00a0BAFTA<\/span>s in 2017 and 2018 respectively, with Billingham going on to win the Douglas Hickox award for debut directors at the British Independent Film Awards. Rose Glass\u2019s debut Saint Maud is released in the\u00a0UK<\/span>\u00a0this\u00a0autumn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After Love writer\/director Aleem Khan has been shortlisted for this year’s IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award which is announced over this year’s LFF. Michaela Coel will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebureaufilms.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebureaufilms.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebureaufilms.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebureaufilms.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebureaufilms.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thebureaufilms.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/thebureaufilms.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebureaufilms.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebureaufilms.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebureaufilms.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebureaufilms.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}