Directors Digest

Lost screenplays, charity support lines and subtitling innovations are just some of the subjects covered in this week’s Directors Digest — where fashion documentaries and falling back in love with terrestrial TV also feature. Read all about it below. 

Film 

UK Cinema Associaton launches fund for subtitling innovations. (Screen International)

A lost 60-year old Stanley Kubrick screenplay has been found, and may be made into a film. (Indiewire)

Fashion documentaries are thriving, and The Hollywood Reporter provides a look at the business of making them. 

John Malone is reportedly leaving the Lionsgate Board of Directors. (Deadline)

Russian filmmaker Ksenia Ratushnaya has defied the government to shoot an LGBT feature, Screen reports. 

Television

The UK Film and TV Charity Support Line has received 400 calls in the first three months. (Screen International)

Iman Amrani writes about how the World Cup and Love Island helped her fall back in love with terrestrial TV. (Guardian)

Broadcast provide a behind-the-scenes feature on the making of Prison, featuring tricks of the trade from Directors UK member Paddy Wivell. 

Channel 4’s Simone Haywood has been brought in by Shiver to a new fact ent commissioning editor role. (TBIVision)

Netflix shares have plummeted after subscriber rates failed to meet expectations. (Guardian)

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