This year’s winners of the BAF awards were announced at a ceremony hosted by Barry Purves on Saturday night at a packed Pictureville Cinema. Now in its 17th year, the awards are the climax of the Bradford Animation Festival. For full details of the award winners click here.

Filmmaker Neil bell presents an opportunity to contribute towards the fundraising of a new feature documentary on the  pirates of Somalia.

For more details visit http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rabotat/fish-n-ships

- £270,000 commissioned to companies in North of England to produce BBC Children’s content
Peter Salmon, Director, BBC North today (September 8 2010) announced the first wave of companies that will be commissioned under the BBC’s @North initiative.

Visit the Screen Yorkshire website for further details and information on the companies that have received funding so far.

This is England 1986 the TV series that follows on from the BAFTA award-winning This is England, starts Transmission on Channel 4 on Tuesday 7 September. “When I finished This Is England I had a wealth of material and unused ideas that I felt very keen to take further – audiences seemed to really respond to the characters we created and out of my long standing relationship with Film4 and Channel 4 the idea for a television serial developed. Not only did I want to take the story of the gang broader and deeper, I also saw in the experiences of the young in 1986 many resonances to now – recession, lack of jobs, sense of the world at a turning point. Whereas the film told part of the story, the TV serial will tell the rest.” –   Shane Meadows

Danny Boyle’s follow up to Slumdog Millionaire will close the London Film Festival on October 28th. Scripted by Simon Beaufoy, 127 Hours is inspired by true story of  mountain climber Aron Ralston, who was trapped under a boulder in Utah for five days and has to resort to desperate measures to survive.