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UK Film Council

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The UK Film Council was established by the Government in 2000 as a new strategic agency for developing the film industry and film culture in the UK underlining the importance of film as a key part of the UK's creative industries which collectively have a turnover of close to £60 billion a year.

The UK Film Council aims to stimulate a competitive, successful and vibrant British film industry and culture, and to promote the widest possible enjoyment and understanding of cinema throughout the nations and regions of the UK.

The UK FILM COUNCIL provides funding for film production and training.

Development Fund

The UK FILM COUNCIL's Development Fund aims to broaden the quality, range and ambition of British film projects and talent being developed. More specifically, the aim is to raise the quality of screenplays produced in or from the UK through targeted development initiatives. Over time, the fund aims to build creatively focused relationships, with a breadth of talent, from "first timers" to experienced practitioners. The fund also seeks to help British film companies to grow sustainable businesses.

For more information about the Development Fund click here

New Cinema Fund

The New Cinema Fund encourages unique ideas, innovative approaches and new voices. The fund intends to finance films with passion and verve that connect with a broad range of audiences.

The New Cinema Fund supports:

• Feature film production


• The making of pilots


• Short filmmaking

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Premiere Fund

The Premiere Fund plays a meaningful creative and business role from the development of projects through to marketing and distribution, in the production of feature films that can attract audiences the world over.

The fund aims to combine the flexibility, vision, dynamism and entrepreneurial spirit that is traditionally associated with the private sector of the industry by investing in popular commercially viable feature films. Equally, a key objective of the fund is to facilitate through specific film investments a
greater breadth of experience and expertise across the UK film industry, and in that way to play a key role in assisting the development of sustainable British film businesses capable of long-term growth.

It is particularly committed to establishing strategic involvement in talent-driven projects from European producers. In the first three years the fund has invested in a range of successful projects. David McKenzie directed Young Adam won the EIFF 2003 Michael Powell Award, Gosford Park directed by Robert Altman won both and Oscar and a BAFTA award. Other productions have included Steve Barron’s Mike Bassett: England Manager, Patrice Leconte’s L’homme Du Train, Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46, Fragile Films’ feature animation Valiant, Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake, John Hillcoat’s The Proposition written by Nick Cave, Christopher Smith’s Creep, Charles
Dance’s Ladies In Lavender, John Stephenson’s Five Children & It and Michael Radford’s Merchant Of Venice.

The annual budget for the Premiere Fund is £8 million. Funding decisions are taken by the Head of the Premiere Fund.

For further information about the Premiere Fund click here

Digital Shorts

The New Cinema Fund is partnering with organisations in each region and nation of the UK to enable filmmakers to make innovative shorts using digital technology. Each of the organisations will support at least eight digital films a year budgeted up to £10,000 each. Individual filmmakers should apply directly to the partner organisations for funding.

The partner organisation for the South West is South West Screen

Contact Sarah-Jane Meredith email  Tel: 0117 952 9977

Cinema Extreme

The New Cinema Fund and FilmFour jointly fund Cinema Extreme, a scheme designed
to push the boundaries of cinematic storytelling. For 2004/05 the scheme will
operate as a development programme incorporating a rolling commission process,
through which the New Cinema Fund and FilmFour will commission a minimum of
four films.

For further details o­n Cinema Extreme please click here

Completion Fund

UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund provides completion finance for films that show outstanding potential. UK Film Council is delighted to announce the continuation of the fund for 2004/05.

Now entering its third year the Completion Fund is managed by Maya Vision International. The application call is now over. For further details o­n the scheme please click here

First Light

The UK Film Council's search for the next generation of filmmakers.
Children are avid consumers of films and potentially each o­ne is a filmmaker of the future. Straddling training and education, First Light is an innovative project backed by Lottery funding from the UK FILM COUNCIL, dedicated to fostering film culture for young people from all social backgrounds.

The scheme's objective was to create opportunities for children and young people of school age to make short films. The UK FILM COUNCIL wanted to delegate the operation of First Light to a third party body through a tender process and awarded Hi8us the project. Hi8us was constituted in such a way that it qualified as a delegated distributor of Lottery funds with the managerial capacity and experience to deliver the scheme o­n a UK-wide basis.

For details o­n First Light and how to get involved you can visit their website www.firstlightmovies.com