Northern Ireland has become one of the most successful nations in Europe in this scheme so far. The UK has regularly received the largest number of funding awards from the scheme and, within the UK, Northern Ireland has received the majority. 100% of all applications from Northern Ireland since the inception of the scheme have been successfully selected.

  Creatives are flocking to Cornwall; sun, sea and scriptwriters on annual migration have joined many permanent media professionals who having learned their craft elsewhere have returned across the Tamar and set up shop on their own. Today they will be pitching their scripts and projects to another group of media moguls. Channel 4, BBC Films and UK Film Council have all arrived on away...

  The public row over the future direction of Scottish Screen rumbles on. The film agency is due to be merged with Scottish Arts into a new all-purpose agency, Creative Scotland. Leading Scottish filmmakers say the plan is flawed. The former Head of Locations at Scottish Screen has now publicly come out in support of an open letter sent by Scotland's leading film producers to the F...

  Forty-five Scottish filmmakers, who between them have made 134 feature films have declared dissent at the plan to merge Scottish Screen - originally set up as a one-stop film agency - with Scottish Arts into a single body to be known as Creative Scotland. The filmmakers include the cream of Scotland's screen creatives. They say if Scotland wants to participate in film production ...

  Regional screen agency Screen Yorkshire has launched a four-year production programme, backed by £10 million of funding from Yorkshire Forward – the largest ever award from a regional development agency to a regional screen agency. The investment could make England's biggest county a leading centre of low budget film production, drawing more investment into the region...

  Scottish Screen, the first "one door" screen agency in the UK, is signalling a change in direction, away from funding features for cinema and towards marketing and promotion of locations and skills and digital content.