Goodbye, UK Film Council. With a new, conservatively focused government in office in the UK, an agenda of restraint and cutbacks should be expected. Less expected, however, is the complete closure of the UK Film Council, the government body which oversees public funding of film projects in the UK. Though the government currently insists that they will continue to award fifteen million pounds of lottery funding to film projects every year and that they will also be continuing their current tax credit schemes, the Film Council - which is currently in charge of overseeing these programs - is being shut down completely in April of 2012 with no replacement body currently on the horizon. Cue confusion on behalf of anyone trying to make films in the UK.
Sad day.
a sad day for british and world cinema, but then again it was a sad day in british society when the people voted for the conservatives back in power, there cut out anything remotely Labour induced, all politics are the same in uk now the rich get richer and the working class suffer well done tories killing another british industry, sad day...
If they do in fact end up cutting the funding, they'd be - as is usual with ignorant right wingers - cutting off their noses to spite their faces. The amount of tax revenue, employment and otherwise that the fund provides would more than offset the expense. Such programs are beyond efficient.
But hey - they need to pretend they're cutting everywhere 'presumed labor'...
Sad day my ass. Goodbye to the middleman who behaves like their Len grossman instead of civil servants. Love the ignorant right wing conspiracy theories-would probably make a good vehicle for Danny dyer to investigate. In fact that's probably what they've already funded.
The money is still there, maybe a few million more now that we aren't paying these salaries.
The ingenuity of british film makers and producers will shine through.
Name one first time film that has been worth its salt. FC is just tax relief for big budget hollywood, what funds that dont go towards overpaid salaries ( insert business 'expense' here) toffs and industry whores goes towards friends of toffs and whores or business expense paid gathering and paperwork that justifies it. That money never did anything for UK film culture ,except maybe half decent script repots, and now may as well pay off the quantitive easing or whatever manufactured economic mess the UK is in now.