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UK Film Council to be scrapped as part of quango mass cull

Details of the surprise announcement about the axing of the UK Film Council amidst dozens of other arts quangos. 23.58 With the Facebook group inching towards 5,000 members, and the petition well over half that, the web is awash with comment and analysis. Andrew Pulver, Ronan Bennet and John Woodward all have pieces in the Guardian,  the BBC have rounded up some industry reactions and also p...

Dozens of new UK Film Council funding awards announced

New features from Peter Mullan, Paul Andrew Williams, Hideo 'the Ring' Nakata, Stephen Frears, Mike Leigh, artist Gillian Wearing, Neil Marshall and James 'Man on a Wire' Marsh have all received production finance from the UK Film Council. The latest details of production and development finance has been released with perhaps its strongest slate of productions since inception. Other productio...

UK Film Council Short Film Completion Fund is open for submissions

From Tamsin Ranger @ MayaVision: Individual producers or production companies are invited to send a rough cut of their unfinished short film (up to 15 minutes in length) to Maya Vision International, along with a completed application form. The closing date for applications is 5pm, Monday 30 November 2009. There will only be ONE call for applications for 2010 - so do make sure you get your fi...

UKFC £740k shorts funds to now back disabled filmmakers and animators

News just in from the UKFC on the New Cinema Funds' planned short film investment for the next year. As well as support for the first time for disabled filmmakers through the new Magic Hour strand, support has been offered to 13 animators through 4mations Digital Shorts, a partnership between Channel 4, Lupus Films and Aardman Animations. From the press release: Disabled filmmakers will...

Development fund unveils debut slate for First Feature Awards

One of the more promising schemes to come out of the UK Film Council in recent years, the Development Fund's programme for first-time filmmakers has made its first awards to creatives and projects reflecting the fund’s stated aims to open up opportunities for budding writers and filmmakers across the UK. The first set of awardees includes three writers who are completely new to the indu...