David Fincher Set For Honorary Cesar Award; BFI & Film4 Launch £90,000 Short Film Fund; Liev Schreiber Boards Ukraine Doc; Mipdoc 2023 Expanded For 25th Anniversary; Mediawan & Atlantique Set Pegasus Scandal Series — Global Briefs

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David Fincher To Receive Honorary Cesar AwardDavid Fincher is to receive an Honorary Award at this year’s Cesar Awards. The primary French awards show will fete the Gone Girl filmmaker at its 2023 ceremony on February 24 at the Olympia in Paris. The awards body described Fincher as an “outstanding technician” and “a true visionary.” Awarded since 1976, previous Honorary Cesar Award winners include Robert Redford, Penelope Cruz, and George Clooney. The nominees for the 48th César Awards will be announced on January 25.

BFI And Film4 Launch New £90,000 Short Film FundThe BFI and Film4 have partnered on Future Takes, a new pilot short film fund. The open call is seeking applications for “ambitious and original” short-form work, awarding up to £90,000 each to up to seven projects. The deadline for applications is Monday, 13 February. The fund will be available to teams with a background in – but not limited to – filmmaking, theatre, TV, video gaming, commercials, music videos, and graphic novels, with a writer/director attached who has a demonstrably strong creative track record in their field. It will not fund directors making their first screen work. “This pilot is a direct response to the call we repeatedly heard through our consultation and my listening tour for more possibilities in the funding landscape for this area of talent development that were open to all,” Mia Bays, Director of BFI Film Fund, said. “Future Takes aims to offer emerging filmmakers the means to make work that has greater narrative and cinematic scope, and more space to enhance and develop their practice.”

Liev Schreiber Boards Ukrainian War DocLiev Schreiber will narrate the Ukrainian war documentary Against All Odds: The Failure Of Russia’s