Another Good Year For British Films At Cannes

British film is celebrating the announcement that three Lottery-funded British films and a further five made with British involvement, have been selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival running 12th - 23rd May 2010.
The three British films in the line-up, which have all been supported with UK Film Council funding, are:

• Mike Leigh’s Another Year - screening In Competition
• Hideo Nakata’s Chatroom - screening in Un Certain Regard
• Stephen Frears’s Tamara Drewe - screening Out of Competition

Other films screening which have British involvement are:

• Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Loong Boonmee Raleuk Chaat/Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives co-produced by UK company Illuminations Films - screening In Competition
• Doug Liman’s Fair Game, co-produced by British Writer/Producer Jez Butterworth (Author of the current hit play Jerusalem) and co-written by Jez and his brother John Henry Butterworth - screening In Competition
• Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, which shot entirely in the UK on location in London - screening Out of Competition
• British Director Sophie Fiennes's Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow - selected for Special Screenings
• The opening night film on 12th May will be Robin Hood, Directed by Ridley Scott and filmed at Shepperton Studios and on location around the UK for Universal Pictures

Responding to the announcement, John Woodward, Chief Executive Officer of the UK Film Council, said: "This year’s Cannes Film Festival is opening with a British film and the competition has selected three British Lottery-funded films and another five films that were made in the UK or with British involvement. This is a sign that right now British films, filmmakers and talent are delivering great work that the rest of the world wants to see."
(BMcN)