Read and download all the essential information from UK Film At Cannes 2017 including our helpful supporting materials for panel discussion The Practical Guide to Closing your Film.
Cannes Film Festival 2017
The UK Film Centre was in Cannes from the 17th - 26th May.
There were successes for two UK films this year with Lynne Ramsay winning the prize for Best Screenplay for You Were Never Really Here, an accolade shared with Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for The Killing of A Sacred Deer. Joaquin Phoenix was awarded Best Actor for his role in You Were Never Really Here.
Our UK Film Centre partners included the British Film Institute (BFI), the British Film Commission (BFC), British Council, Creative Scotland, Film London and Northern Ireland Screen.
This year are partner sponsors were Elstree Studios, European Film Bonds Ltd, Harbottle & Lewis, Heineken®, Media Services, teapigs and Tŷ Nant.
There were successes for two UK films this year with Lynne Ramsay winning the prize for Best Screenplay for You Were Never Really Here, an accolade shared with Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for The Killing of A Sacred Deer. Joaquin Phoenix was awarded Best Actor for his role in You Were Never Really Here.
Our UK Film Centre partners included the British Film Institute (BFI), the British Film Commission (BFC), British Council, Creative Scotland, Film London and Northern Ireland Screen.
This year are partner sponsors were Elstree Studios, European Film Bonds Ltd, Harbottle & Lewis, Heineken®, Media Services, teapigs and Tŷ Nant.

Discussions, Panels and Talks
Event Videos
View our Talent Talks with filmmakers in Competition, practical panels on finance and festivals and topical discussions from the UK Film Centre at Cannes 2017...

International distribution and marketing experts Ed Caffrey, head of acquisitions at Vertigo Releasing, Wei Han, CEO of Bliss…
Read more

For UK and non-UK producers alike, moving from your first national film to a multi-party co-production can be…
Read more

Producers Juliette Grandmont and Emily Morgan revealed how they made Rungano Nyoni's debut feature as a France-UK-Zambia co-production…
Read more

The boom in high-end TV means that creative talent is moving to where the money is and finds…
Read more

Tristan Goligher (producer, Lean On Pete), Matthew Metcalfe (producer, 6 Days) and Balázs Zachar, head of business affairs…
Read more

Director Vanessa Redgrave and producer Carlo Nero discussed their feature documentary Sea Sorrow, which played in the Special…
Read more

Writer Nick Saltrese and producer Sol Papadopoulos of the UK’s Hurricane Films came together with Billy Moore and…
Read more

Director John Cameron Mitchell, US producer Howard Gertler of Little Punk, Amy Jackson, head of production at See…
Read more

The UK isn’t leaving Europe, but it has started the process of leaving the European Union. Isabel Davis…
Read more

How hard is it for international filmmakers to get a first feature shown at film festivals? Katja Adomeit…
Read more

Following the ratification of the new Film and TV co-production agreement between the UK and Brazil, Ana Julia…
Read more

Rosie Alison, producer at Heyday Films (Paddington, Paddington 2) and Jonathan King, head of narrative film at Participant…
Read more

Film4’s Sam Lavender and Element Films’ Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe discuss working together to develop Yorgos Lanthimos’…
Read more