BFI AND BRITISH COUNCIL REVEAL GREAT8 SHOWCASE FOR CANNES 2023

Great8 showcase which presents new UK feature films from some of the UK’s most exciting first and secondtime filmmakers to international distributors and festival programmers announced eight new projects – Black Dog, Bonus Track, Chuck Chuck Baby, Edge Of Summer, Starve Acre, In Camera, Kneecap and Layla – selected for this year’s edition which took place at this year’s Cannes Marché.

Now in its sixth year, the 2023 Great8 showcase is funded and run by the BFI and the British Council, in partnership with BBC Film and Film4. Great8 has built a reputation for highlighting films and filmmakers who have gone on to find international success including Char- lotte Wells’s Aftersun (BAFTA Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, 2023), Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not A Witch (Camera d’Or nominee, 2017), Michael Pearce’s Beast BAFTA Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, 2019), Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean (Venice Giornate Degli Autori’s People’s Choice Award, 2022) and Rose Glass’s Saint Maud (BIFA Douglas Hickox Award, 2021, BFI London Film Festival, Best Film-Honourable Mention)

Agnieszka Moody, BFI head of international & industry policy, said, “The line-up of films and filmmakers featuring in this year’s Great8 continues to shine a light on the exciting diversity of filmmaker voices and stories continuing to come out of the UK.”