ARTURI ANNOUNCE NEW CHARITY FILM FUND
FILMS FORCE CHANGE - helping indi films which raise awareness of injustice, inequality and wrong doing and promote a greater understanding of the world, reach the widest global audience. As reported on BBC radio. Read more here
Screen Daily article on Films Force Change here To register your interest or to offer help please go to FILM FORCE CHANGE Facebook page by clicking here
CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL - MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN
Producers David and Elizabeth spoke at the Cheltenham Literature Festival to a full house about making Mugabe and The White African, showed clips from it and answered questions on 11th October at the Playhouse in Cheltenham.
David Pearson, of Arturi Films, has directed and produced for Twofour, ITV 1's Fisherman's Friends
"These weather-beaten hard drinking, middle-aged chums are televisual gold" - Time Out
"Charming and intimate film follows their journey to national fame" Daily Telegraph
These are the Fishermans’ Friends, ten beer swigging friends who all bar one grew up together in the beautiful fishing village of Port Isaac. The rollercoaster of emotions in this rollicking story of male friendship is captured by twice BAFTA nominated, 2010 Grierson and Prix Italia Awards and BIFA winning producer and director David Pearson, and is executive produced by Bridget Sneyd for Twofour Broadcast. See news pages for more.
A CLUSTER OF AWARDS!
RTS ADDED TO PRIX ITALIA, GRIERSON, BIFA AWARDS AND BAFTA NOMINATION AND ALL FOR MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN !
For details on the film click here
Mugabe and the White African produced by Welsh and Gloucestershire based Arturi Films has just won the Royal Television Society's Best Documentary Award. 
The feature film is an Arturi Films Production in association with Explore Films, Molinare Productions and the Film Agency for Wales and is currently on DVD release in the UK, US and France, following a successful cinema release in all three and TV showing on Channel 4. David muses, “It's been quite a year what with our BAFTA Nomination and Awards from BIFA, PRIX ITALIA, GRIERSON, CAMERA JUSTITIA and an Oscar short listing to name just some, and all very gratifying for us that so many people recognise the film’s achievements and the strong emotional reactions audience have when they see it.
The film was nominated for BAFTA's Outstanding Debut 2010 for its Arturi's producers David Pearson and Lizzie Morgan Hemlock and the directors Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson and wss shortlisted for an Oscar Nomination. The film was awarded a BIFA 2009 for Best Documentary Feature, presented by Jimi Mistry and Rupert Evans(see photo) to the producers David Pearson and Elizabeth (centre rifght) Morgan Hemlock and directors Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson (centre left). In cinemas now the film is released in the USA, UK and soon France.
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