Who Can Save The Most Successful Movie Sponsoring Organization In Britain?

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The UK film council which will be beneficial to many British filmmakers will be closed for this year. British film industry still fights for this. Movie website retains the petition activities of UKFC, currently has about 26,000 people to sign, a batch of Hollywood famous filmmakers also voices support for it. But so far, Cameron government still has no signs of nervous backtracking.

To be or not to be, now become an urgent problem to be solved of a British Film commission (the UK Film Council, the abbreviation UKFC), also be a problem placed before Cameron government. In recent Oscar competition, The King's Speech funded by UKFC won four awards including best film, ironically, this institution makes many British filmmakers benefit will close this year.

British film commission established by the Labor government in 2000 is the government department of public institutions, with about staff of 100 people, to develop and promote the British film industry for the purpose, money mainly from gambling. Its official website wrote: the goal lies in contributing competitive, successful and active British film industry and ...
... film culture, as far as possible in the national scope widely to help you enjoy movies, understand movies. The most important achievement of Committee is looking for direct infusion of funds for the British film. It has invested more than 1.6 billion pounds of funds for more than 900 films since it was established. Three foundations now subordinate to the commission annually invests 17 million pound for the British film. One is Development Fund (The Fund), has invested Development funds of 12 million pound during three years, devoted to enhance the quality of Chinese movies and ambition.

Although the government has been pressuring British entertainment industry, the government has still not recalled an order. Some have argued that they need not be overly pessimistic about the prospects of the UKFC, even revoked, now Britain also have more and more folk foundation to invest movies. Now make most British ordinary people feel chilling, government is brewing to charge numerous free art galleries and museums since 2001 free open to people, to make up for the lack of finance expenditure.