UK Film Council

UK Film Council

• Film London are one of the UK Film Council's funding partners, this partnership works by the private partners will invest in the national inward investment function to ensure the UK, its facilities and talent are promoted successfully all over the world. In addition, Film London will employ the knowledge and expertise of an advisory board, which will be drawn from industry partners and stakeholders from the regions and nations. 

• The Government has pledged to support film across the English regions. The responsibility will fall to the BFI to develop a new strategy for film with regional partners including Creative England. Lottery and Grant-in-aid funding to the English regions will be provided via the BFI.

• The Film Fund and the Prints and Advertising Fund will continue to accept and assess decisions about funding. Any changes to any of the processes for the funds will be communicated to the industry and published on both the BFI and UK Film Council websites.

•  It is assumed that UK Film Council employees working in areas not being transferred to the BFI or Film London will be made redundant.

• The functions that are transferring to Film London are the UK Film Council’s role in encouraging inward investment into the UK in a public/private partnership with Warner Bros., Pinewood Studios Group, the Production Guild, UK Screen Association and other companies.