Veronica Orciari

- Among a host of other initiatives aimed at professionals, eight projects from UK- and Irish-based filmmakers feature in the showcase of works in progress At the 70th edition of the BFI London Film Festival (7-18 October), the Works-in-Progress Showcase will present eight new fiction features and documentaries by filmmakers based in the UK and Ireland at Picturehouse Central, as part of the Industry Forum on Friday 9 October.

- In Jaap van Heusden and Vinnie Karetak’s chilly and tense survival thriller, an Inuk teenager is pursued by an FBI agent after an accidental pipeline attack Jaap van Heusden and Vinnie Karetak’s icy drama-thriller In Alaska had its world premiere at the 51st Toronto International Film Festival, in the Special Presentations strand.

- Shawn Garry’s sophomore feature explores grief and family tensions as a widower struggles to rebuild his life after his wife’s death Chilean director Shawn Garry’s comedy-drama After Elena, World premiering in the Centrepiece competition of this year's Toronto Film Festival, features Alfredo Castro in the role of Roberto, who, in the aftermath of his wife Elena’s death, is left to navigate a life suddenly stripped of its familiar structure.