Screen International

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*Screen International*
editor	Mike Goodridge
Categories	Trade journal
Frequency	Weekly
First issue	1889
Company	EMAP
Country	United Kingdom
Based in	London, United Kingdom
Language	English
Website	www.screendaily.com

Screen International is a multimedia film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by EMAP, a British b2b media company.

The magazine is primarily aimed at those involved in the global movie business. The weekly magazine in its current form was founded in 1975^[1] with its website, Screendaily.com, added in 2001.

Screen International also produces daily publications at film festivals and markets in Berlin, Germany; Cannes, France; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California; and Hong Kong.

History

Screen International can trace its history back to the earliest days of the United Kingdom industry.

1889: founded as Optical Magic Lantern and Photographic Enlarger
1900: becomes Cinematographic Journal
1907: becomes Kine Weekly
1972: becomes Today’s Cinema and subsequently CinemaTV Today
1975: becomes Screen International^[1] published by Rex Publications

Many Screen International journalists have gone on to become major industry figures, including Colin Vaines, the head of the U.K. division of Miramax Films

Competition

The magazine's international competitors include its American counterparts Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.

Offices

Screen International has offices in:

It has a network of more than forty correspondents around the world. Its conferences, including the annual European Film Finance Summit in Berlin and the UK Film Finance Conference in London, are among the most influential events in the calendar, attracting big audiences and major industry figures.

Website

In addition to its print magazine, Screen International maintains a blog site titled Screen Daily which provides a more real-time view of the film industry.^[2]

Staff

As of February 2011 until end July 2012, the editor of Screen International is Mike Goodridge, who is based in the main London office. Goodridge was succeeded by Wendy Mitchell, who previously worked at Screen as UK Reporter and Senior Editor. The US office is run by journalist Jeremy Kay, while the Asia bureau chief, based in Hong Kong, is Liz Shackleton. Its official photographer is Andrew Douglas Ross.

Oscar Moore Foundation

A former editor in chief, Oscar Moore—who was also a columnist for The Guardian and a novelist—died of an AIDS-related illness in 1996. The Oscar Moore Foundation was established in 1997 as a charitable foundation administered by Screen International. The foundation's aim is to foster new European screenwriting talent by awarding an annual prize of UK£10,000 to the best first draft screenplay in a genre which changes each year. A foundation patron, Emma Thompson, is an actress and screenwriter who has won an Academy Award for both disciplines.