What next for cultural film funding?
21.11.10
Adam Pugh on the death throes of the UKFC (Part 2) With the UK Film Council in its death throes and the lottery funds it once administered to be lodged with the British Film Institute, funding for the moving image in this country is set to change. Whilst a far from perfect solution, it nevertheless represents a chance that a more real and fuller landscape of ...
The Film Council is dead: long live film funding
18.11.10
Adam Pugh on the death throes of UKFC (Part 1) Let us be clear from the outset – quite apart from the forthcoming cuts to the arts, and the wholesale disassembly of the mechanics of central government in favour of X Factor-style self-governance – any government which manages to maintain a £45bn defence budget at the cost of new schools and hospitals must be disingenuous at ...