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CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO ONE LOVE PAGE Jamaican and Welsh feature films amongst new UK FILM COUNCIL investments 26 March 2003 - London LONDON. A Jamaican love story and a disturbing insight into racial hatred in a small Welsh town are just two of a new raft of feature films to come from the UK FILM COUNCIL's New Cinema Fund this year. Rick Elgood and Don Letts, directors of Dancehall Queen, are currently in post-production on their latest feature film One Love, a contemporary Jamaican 'Romeo and Juliet' starring Ky-Mani Marley, son of the late Bob Marley, Cherine Anderson and Vas Blackwood. One Love is produced by Yvonne Deutschman, Shelaagh Ferrell and Bjorn Eivind Aarskog. The New Cinema Fund has invested a further £459,182 in the film. The fund has also invested £360,000 in A Way of Life, directed by first-time director Amma Asante, the story of a teenage mother struggling against poverty and deprivation to bring up her small daughter. Set in urban Wales, it offers a disturbing insight into racism, hatred and a 17 year old who's running out of options. The film will be produced by Peter Edwards, executive produced by Charlie Hanson and written by Asante. The project also received £10,000 as part of the New Cinema Fund's 'pilot' scheme, enabling filmmakers to film a few key scenes as demonstration of their vision for the eventual feature. Stop History!, a £375,000 investment from the fund, tells the story of an ex-Kurdish freedom fighter living in London whose past comes back to haunt him in the form of a violent ex-comrade who arrives from Turkey. The film is written and directed by Wayne Holloway and produced by Natasha Dack of Tigerlily Films. Paul Trijbits, the head of the New Cinema Fund said, "The role the New Cinema Fund is to develop tomorrow's cinema by supporting distinctive and diverse films and filmmakers of today. We're delighted with the successes that have come from our investments to date such as The Magdalene Sisters, Bloody Sunday and Noi The Albino, but there are many more emerging filmmakers whose voices need to be heard." Additional funding of £102,500 has been given to Cinéfondation award winner Emily Young's Helen of Peckham and an extra £50,000 for post-production has been invested in Oscar® winner Kevin Macdonald's Touching the Void. The New Cinema Fund's pilot scheme has also invested in Stones in his Pockets, based on the award-winning play by Marie Jones, Autonomous's Sex Planet, Giant Films's Anatomy of Grief and Tartan Works's The Purifiers, a British martial arts feature directed by Richard Jobson. The commitment the fund has made to its core aims to date - supporting innovative and diverse filmmaking talent - can now be seen clearly in its investments. Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters (winner of Golden Lion at Venice) took over £1.5 million in the UK alone after just two weeks. Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday (winner of Golden Bear at Berlin) was released in the US, Italy, France and Australasia and has accrued over £1.2 million in box office. Noi The Albino (Movie Zone youth jury prize at Rotterdam, Best Nordic Film at Gothenburg) has been the darling of the festival circuit over the past few months and has been selling well. A release is planned in the UK later this year.
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