Paul Webster, spencer The producer and co-founder of London-based production company Shoebox Films will deliver the keynote at this year’s Film London Production Finance Market (PFM), which runs from October 12-13.
The annual two-day film funding event will be held online during the BFI London Film Festival, where international filmmakers and financiers will connect from around the world through one-on-one meetings. The main stream welcomes feature film projects with budgets over €1 million, while the New Talent stream targets budgets under €1 million.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the PFM is taking place online for a second year.
Webster’s most recent film is that of Pablo Larrain spencer, starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana and written by frequent Webster contributor Steven Knight. It made its competition debut at the Venice Film Festival last month and is now playing at the BFI London Film Festival as a gala screening.
Webster, former director of Film4 between 1998 and 2004, made over 100 films as a producer and executive. His credits include The English Patient, Shakespeare in love, sexy beast, motorcycle journals, Pride and Prejudice, and Radioactive. It won a Bafta for best film for Joe Wright Atonement in 2007 for which he was also nominated for an Oscar.
Webster runs Shoebox Films with Wright and producer Guy Heeley, through which he has made films including Knight’s Locke and Luxor and more recently spencer. The latter is a co-production with the German Komplizen Film.
Plus, British producer Helen Jones of Silver Salt and writer-director Prano Bailey-Bond of the horror flick Censor will also present this year’s PFM case study.
The PFM is supported by the Mayor of London, the BFI London Film Festival and the Department for International Trade (DIT). It works in partnership with Breaking Through The Lens, EAVE, MIFF 37 South, The Netherlands Film Commission, Ontario Creates IFF@TIFF and the National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa, and, for the first time this year, Tallinn Black Film Nights in Estonia. Festival.
