FILM COUNCIL INVEST IN TWO NEW PROJECTS

The Film Council's New Cinema Fund have announced their investment in two new projects.
The projects reflect the New Cinema Fund's commitment to emerging talent in a wide range of subject matter, production techniques and formats.
The New Cinema Fund are investing in their first feature documentary ‘Hoover Street Revival’. The film is directed by Sophie Fiennes who will also produce the project through her company Amoeba Films in co-production with Ideale Audience in France. Kees Kasander is the Executive Producer.
The compelling documentary features moves like a kaleidoscope through life in South Central Los Angeles, focusing on the Greater Bethany Community Church where preacher Bishop Noel Jones is setting the minds of people on fire. The film is co-financed by the New Cinema Fund, and BBC. Ideale Audience are handling international sales.
The New Cinema Fund have also invested in ‘Bodysong’, which tells the story of the human life cycle, using film and video footage of the last 100 years collected from a multitude of archives around the world.
The project ranges across the many scales of human experience giving a fresh look to the way in which we have recorded our lives, from microcosmic medical footage shot inside the body, to accumulated archive footage of massive events from ritual celebration to the carnage of warfare.
The 35mm feature film will be released to coincide with an innovative website allowing the viewer to visit each shot in the film and find web links and information about each shot.
The film is financed by FilmFour Lab and Film Council's New Cinema Fund, and represents their first feature partnership. FilmFour International will be the international sales agent for the film, and FilmFour Distributors will distribute it in the UK. (CD)