Founded
in 1983, by festival director Ally Derks, it is unique for its international
film program featuring a
wide variety of documentary
genres with political and socially conscious themes.
Set up as a separate entity
in 1990, with its first «official» production the Anthony Minghella - directed romance Truly Madly Deeply, starring Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman, BBC Films has had a hand in more than 250 films in a wide variety of formats and genres: from popular TV spin - offs such as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie and In the Loop, to boundary - pushing art films such as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Derek Jarman's Edward I
in 1990, with its first «official» production the Anthony Minghella - directed romance Truly Madly Deeply, starring Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman, BBC
Films has had a hand
in more than 250 films in a wide variety of formats and genres: from popular TV spin - offs such as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie and In the Loop, to boundary - pushing art films such as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Derek Jarman's Edward I
in more than 250
films in a wide variety of formats and genres: from popular TV spin - offs such as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie and In the Loop, to boundary - pushing art films such as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Derek Jarman's Edward I
in a
wide variety of formats and
genres: from popular TV spin - offs such as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie and
In the Loop, to boundary - pushing art films such as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Derek Jarman's Edward I
In the Loop, to boundary - pushing art
films such as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Derek Jarman's Edward II.