Articles by Adrian Pennington

Sheffield DocFest: Panellists scold media for succumbing to ‘climate of fear’

Investigative documentary filmmakers take broadcasters and streamers to task for being complicit in the rise of authoritarianism and muzzling the Palestinian experience in Gaza.

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Director Dean DeBlois

Behind the scenes: How to Train Your Dragon

This remake of a classic animation works from Roger Deakins’ original lighting design, a colour palette plucked from the Faroe Islands, and puppeteered dragons, explains DoP Bill Pope.

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Resistance may be futile: Animators unite to fight and work with AI

What happens when the tortoise of animation meets the hare of artificial intelligence? Speed is AI’s superpower but it threatens to wipe away jobs and craft. IBC365 is on the ground at the Animation Film Festival in Annecy.

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Hollywood is over: Time for creators to take charge

Film and TV professionals, studio executives and kit manufacturers are urged to open up to the creator economy or face ruin.

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Behind the Scenes: Andor

Behind the scenes: Andor

“We’re not writing to the headlines, but you see this sort of conflict and empire building happen over and over again in history”, says John Gilroy, lead editor and executive producer of Star Wars spy thriller Andor.

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The Bends

The Bends: Hollywood studios unite to fast-track Veo 3 education

Google’s generative filmmaking tool Veo 3 sparks Hollywood exploration but creative ownership remains in flux.

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FlightStory: Forget the creator economy, this is the era of the creator founder

When individuals can build multi-million pound business empires from chatting to people online, it is high time to call it what it is or get left in the dust, says FlightStory’s Georgie Holt.

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Michael B. Jordan as Smoke in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “SINNERS,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release

Behind the scenes: Sinners

Shooting large format IMAX and designing a surreal montage resonated with the film's themes of spiritual ancestry and musical legacy.

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(L-R) Samantha McMillon, COO, Quay Street Productions; Amber Haque, Presenter and Documentary Maker; Iain MacLeod, Executive Producer, Continuing Drama, ITV; Pam Cavannagh, CEO, Purple Productions; Michael Jochnowitz, Interim Editor of Unscripted Commissioning, BBC; Emma Morris, Executive Editor of Morning Live and The One Show, BBC Studios; Rick Murray, CEO, Workerbee and Chair: Gethin Jones, BBC presenter, Morning Live

Neglect of working class comes home to roost in British TV

A cross-industry initiative aims to reset the TV industry’s class imbalance by 2030, but is there any chance it will succeed?

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MPTS 2025

MPTS 2025 reveals a media industry struggling to keep pace

MPTS 2025 is the latest event to lay bare the faultlines running throughout the TV business which is being eviscerated by AI and the creator economy.

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