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The BFI has made a further 11 awards through its UK Global Screen Fund

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The BFI has made a further 11 awards through its UK Global Screen Fund. Financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the awards allocate over £1.65 million through the fund’s International Co-production strand, supporting UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions and help create new global projects. To date the strand has now awarded over £8.9 million … Read more

BFI and DCMS invest £2.15m into the UK’s independent screen sector

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The BFI has made 26 new awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, supporting international opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. Financed through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the awards see a further £2,150,000 being allocated through the £7m per year fund’s International Business Development strand, which has now awarded over … Read more

BFI and DCMS invest over £3.3m into the UK’s Independent Screen Sector

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The BFI has made a further 30 awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, backing seven new international co-productions and supporting 23 UK screen content businesses to boost their international activities and enhance the success of their content globally. Financed through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the latest batch of awards sees … Read more

UK Global Screen Fund extends support to Ukrainian filmmakers through European Solidarity Fund for Ukrainian Films

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The UK Global Screen Fund (UKGSF), financed by the UK Government’s Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) and administered by the BFI, has extended support to Ukrainian Filmmakers through the European Solidarity Fund for Ukraine Films (ESFUF).  The ESFUF, an emergency funding programme with an overall budget of €1.2 million, brings together 18 partners … Read more

Leaders across UK’s screen sectors unite to address skills gap

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Creative executive Georgia Brown will chair the Skills Task Force, the industry-led group which is addressing the critical skilled labour shortages within the UK’s production screen sectors. The Task Force will comprise senior representatives from all the major broadcasters, studios and streamers, as well as key organisations including ScreenSkills, PACT and national screen agencies, and … Read more

Jay Blades MBE and minister Julia Lopez launch Discover Creative Careers 2023–2025

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The industry-led initiative has been awarded more than £1 million from the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) to develop and deliver a programme of hybrid opportunities, resources and activities that will ensure there is a larger and more diverse intake of talent via a broader range of routes into the creative industries. Award-winning … Read more

BFI & DCMS announce latest UK Global Screen Fund awards

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The BFI has made a further 10 awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, supporting UK screen content businesses to export UK content globally and grow international partnerships. Financed through the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the awards see a further £273,000 being allocated through the fund’s International Distribution strand, designed … Read more

UK MPs celebrate next generation filmmakers at Parliamentary Awards Event

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A film about a young WWI soldier who fled the battlefield has won Best Short Film Under 19 at the prestigious Film the House filmmaking competition run by MPs. Saul Bell-West who was nominated by Selaine Saxby MP for his film Deserter, walked off with a top prize at the awards ceremony in Parliament. Julian Knight MP, who chairs … Read more

£50 million of Government investment announced for creative businesses across the UK

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Creative industries businesses will benefit from a £50 million Government boost to help drive economic growth and level up the country, Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announced. The investment includes £21 million to help build on the international success of the UK film industry through a three-year UK Global Screen Fund. This follows a successful one-year … Read more

BFI and DCMS invest £2.1m in UK companies from UK Global Screen Fund

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The BFI has made a further 25 awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, supporting UK screen content businesses across film, TV, animation and interactive narrative video games to enhance their international activities. Financed through the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the awards see a further £2,105,600 being allocated through the £7m … Read more

Hollywood plans £700m film and TV studios in Hertfordshire

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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

BFI and DCMS support UK sales companies at Cannes in first awards from UK Global Screen Fund

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The BFI has kicked off the UK Global Screen Fund with two early awards to support UK features in the Official Selection at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The first tranche of money from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) funded £7m pot is being allocated through the fund’s international distribution strand, designed to … Read more

BFI launches nationwide review to boost skills across UK

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The BFI is undertaking a major strategic skills review on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The review will be conducted in close collaboration with the industry-led skills body ScreenSkills, national and regional screen agencies, trade bodies, unions and leading industry figures. The UK Skills Review is aimed at sharing … Read more

Elstree Studios expansion gets under way

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Hertsmere has taken one step closer towards cementing its reputation as the ‘British Hollywood’ as construction work on the expansion of Elstree Studios got under way this week. Work to build two new soundstages and ancillary workshops on the site of the former Big Brother house has begun, after contractors R. G. Carter Construction were … Read more

DCMS and BFI launch UK Global Screen Fund to boost global exports of UK content

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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the BFI have announced the launch of the UK Global Screen Fund, a one-year pilot fund designed to boost international development and distribution opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. The new £7 million fund will target support across the screen sector including film, TV, … Read more

UK and South Africa boost growth with co-production agreement

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The UK and South Africa have signed a new television agreement which will strengthen ties within the broadcast industries, encourage the sharing of knowledge and ideas, and drive economic growth through television co-production. The terms of the agreement, which builds on the existing Film Co-production Treaty, were negotiated by the Department For Culture, Media And … Read more