Over the last few weeks it has been noted that the new coalition government is to axe the UK Film council. Their position is that we spend way to much on it’s administration and the money could be best suit to go directly to the film makers. The film council has had many successes and I am sure it will be truly missed at a time when our industry is in radical change and due to the digital roll-out.
I received an email from the UK Film council concerning the future, please see below:-
We have a received an overwhelming number of emails from people in the the industry concerned about the future of funding for film in the UK and asking if they can make their views known. We thought it might be helpful to let you know that there are two social networking pages which have been set up independently of the UK Film Council. There are already 9,370 signatures to date attached to an online petition and a facebook page has received 14,771 visits.
If you are interested in airing your views the addresses are:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-the-UK-Film-Council/137240442975080?ref=search
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/save-the-uk-film-council/sign.html
This is a great platform to air your views. So if you have a slight emotion towards the future of the UK film industry, please make your views known.
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