The British Film Commission has released official statistics showing inward investment film and high-end TV titles contributing £5.8 billion to the UK economy in 2025. The 2025 inward investment production statistics, up from £5bn in 2024, demonstrate the “inherent strength, stability and longer-term sustainability of the UK screen industries, as global production continues to navigate … Read more
The British Film Commission and Italian Film Commissions have joined forces under a new Memorandum of Understanding, with the aim of “recognising and enhancing the collaboration between the UK and Italian screen industries”, as well as incentivising and promoting inward investment film and high-end TV production across the two territories. Building on the MoU signed … Read more
The British Film Commission and Film France CNC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the aim of recognising and enhancing the collaboration between the UK and French screen industries, as well as incentivising and promoting inward investment film and high-end TV production across the two territories. The agreement was signed today at BFI Southbank, … Read more
The British Film Commission (BFC) and the Netherlands Film Commission (NFC), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Dutch Embassy in London, with the aim of enhancing the collaboration between the UK and Netherlands screen industries, as well as incentivising inward investment film and high-end TV production in the two territories. The partnership agreement … Read more
The Chancellor of the Exchequer used the Government’s first Autumn Budget to confirm an increase in the UK’s tax incentive for spending on Visual Effects (VFX) in the UK. The Chancellor confirmed proposals, first raised in the March 2024 Budget, that from 1st April 2025, VFX costs in the UK will attract an increase in the rate … Read more
Official film and high-end TV (HETV) production statistics released today by the British Film Institute (BFI) show that the UK’s production continued to generate billions to the UK economy despite the global impact of US Guild strikes. The inward investment spend generated by film and high-end television (HETV) production during 2023 reached £3.11 billion, 49% … Read more
At FOCUS London, the British Film Commission and VisitBritain have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the intention of boosting screen tourism throughout the UK’s nations and regions. ‘Set-jetting’ is a booming trend in travel. According to Expedia Group, more than half of international travellers said TV shows and films inspire their travel plans. Inbound … Read more
The BFC announce the launch of their brand-new UK Virtual Production Directory. The UK has seen exponential growth in the establishment of large scale virtual production capacity. A full-service supply chain has developed at speed to match this industry demand, including hardware, software, technology and creative. Their directory highlights vendors, suppliers and studios located across … Read more
The British Film Commission (BFC) and Malta Film Commission, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the aim of enhancing the collaboration between the UK and Malta screen industries, as well as facilitating film and high-end TV production between the two territories. The UK and the Malta screen industries are both first class … Read more
When Jeremy Hunt, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, revealed his Spring Budget in mid-March, there was some welcome news for the British film and TV industry. The government is set to reform the Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit and have a new system modelled on the Research and Development Expenditure Credits process. Film and high-end TV … Read more
The British Film Commission (BFC) and the Norwegian Film Commission (NFC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the aim of enhancing the collaboration between the UK and Norwegian screen industries, as well as facilitating film and high-end TV production between the two territories. Both countries are leading global production hubs for film and … Read more
The British Film Commission (BFC) and the Italian Film Commissions (IFC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance collaboration between the UK and Italian screen industries, as well as to facilitate film and high-end television production between the two countries. The UK and Italy are both recognised as leading global production centres for film … Read more
The Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB), in partnership with the British Film Commission (BFC), marked the completion of its inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Mentor Scheme at a House of Commons reception hosted by the Minister for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Kemi Badenoch. The PGGB & BFC Diversity and Inclusion Mentor scheme launched in August 2021 with the core … Read more
Shinfield Studios is an exciting new production hub currently in development. Phase 1 is open now (4 stages, workshops and offices) with more facilities opening in phases over the next 2 years. Building on the UK’s global reputation for producing world class content, this new Hub will offer film and television producers 18 new purpose-built … Read more
The British Film Commission (BFC) is extending its partnership with The Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB) by investing a further £100k in a raft of targeted PGGB training courses, designed to increase access to experienced and diverse crew as new stage space continues to expand in the UK. The £100k investment is the second … Read more
The Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB), in partnership with the British Film Commission, has announced the participants for its inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Mentor Scheme which has matched 15 talented mentees with experienced industry mentors working in UK film and High-End TV production. Aimed at individuals working in all grades and departments represented by PGGB’S membership (including production, accounts, ADs, … Read more
Plans for a £700m film and TV studios facility in the UK have been revealed by a Hollywood studio. The owners of Sunset Studios in Los Angeles and an investment firm have bought a 91-acre site in Hertfordshire for £120m. Subject to planning permission, the production centre would be built in Broxbourne. The government said … Read more
Location Collective today announced plans to launch a new, 214,000 sqft film studio in the capital during late summer 2021. Enfield-based OMA:X Film Studios is just 700m from Location Collective’s first film studio venture – OMA Film Studios – which opened for business only 9 months ago in Enfield, North London. OMA:X features 6 sound stages, each … Read more
The Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB) is joining forces with the British Film Commission (BFC) to increase access to diverse and experienced crew that will help power UK film and TV production as additional stage space continues to come online in the UK. BFC, which was awarded £4.8 million additional funding over three years from HM Treasury in 2020 to expand its work promoting the UK as a destination of choice for studio space investment, is officially partnering with PGGB to support delivery of its Stage Space … Read more
Applications are open for round three of The Production Guild of Great Britain’s (PGGB) High Level Covid Supervisor Training, which takes place online on 6 March and 13 March. Delivered by the PGGB and fuelled by £100k British Film Commission (BFC) investment, the two-day training programme provides a thorough overview of the impact of Covid … Read more