Festival Fund
The UK Film Council's aims and funding priorities for the next three years have been set out in the publication Film in the Digital Age.
These were structured and framed to support the UK Film Council's overarching goal:
'To help make the UK a global hub for film in the digital age, with the world's most imaginative, diverse and vibrant film culture, underpinned by a flourishing, competitive and sustainable film industry.'
One of the new funding priorities identified by the UK Film Council is a UK-wide Film Festival Fund totaling £1.5 million a year for the next three years.
The Film Festival Fund, aims to ensure that, by 2012, audiences across the UK have access to a wide variety of film festivals which maximise audience choice and provide opportunities for learning, and that collectively these festivals contribute to the development of a more competitive UK film industry at home and overseas.
The fund will be allocated as follows:
- £250,000 a year for up to three years, to no more than eight festivals that are, or in the opinion of the UK Film Council have the potential to be, of national significance;
- £1.25 million a year for up to three years, to no more than two festivals that are, or in the opinion of the UK Film Council have the potential to be, of major international and national significance.
A description of what the UK Film Council views as a festival of major and international and national significance and a festival of national significance is set out in the UK Film Council's UK-Wide Film Festival Strategy which should be read in conjunction with these guidelines.
