NEWS UNIT: CHANNEL DEVELOPMENT

We've had a bit of a rethink as a group and have decided to scrap the acting channel and have instead decided to look into Film festivals and societies. Seeing as the London Film Festival is set to start on the 7th of October we thought it would be a good current topic to look at. I also just had the idea of using the release of the new film Beasts of No Nation on the 16th of October as an angle for our news. It is the first feature film to be produced by Netflix and has already received great praise on its festival run. What is interesting here is that Netflix agreed a deal with Curzon cinemas in the UK to screen the film a week before the Netflix release which suggests there is still belief in the old system.

Looking at this, is this the new way films are going? In this modern era where people want things fast is this whats going to happen to films in the future.
This would be something to talk about in the package as well as the London Film Festival which is also happening at around the same time starting on the 7th.

For our OB we have looked into local film societies and festivals and have found very close to us in Maidstone the Maidstone film society which is just beginning its 67th season of films which are shown every Monday evening at 8pm from around mid September to April. My plan is to go there tomorrow the 28th September for the second screening and see if I can get us a contact there. This would be a great local angle we can get to add to a more global film as a whole look in the Beasts of no Nation.