media distribution is highly important within film making and producing a film due to the fact that this is how the viewers and audience are able to see the film and how film and film makers actually do make money. so due to our film being a uk based film productions that would help with the funding of our film would be funded by the national lottery which provides funds across a large amount of media products. the production and development fund offers mean that finical assistance is available for established film makers but also rising talent and also every level in between in addition to this there are many other ways of helping finical support for film makers UK sales companies and film festivals, National film agencies such as the capitals film agency Film London which directly runs several productions schemes supports local film making, additionally with UK based films the UK government is able to fund ad support. The UK Film Council was a non department public body set up in 2000 to develop and promote the film industry in the uk. it was constituted as a private company limited by guarantee. owned by the secretary of the state for culture, media and sport and governed by a board of 15 directors. it was funded from various sources including the National lottery.The UK film council also have a distrbution and exhibition programme which includes many companies that distrubutes UK based films in which our film is UK based these include:
The Prints and Advertising Fund – provided £2 million per year to help UK distributors produce extra prints of non-mainstream or more commercially focused British films, or to publicise films more effectively through advertising and other channels.
The Cinema Access Programme (launched in 2003) – provided £350,000 to help cinemas purchase subtitling and audio-description technologies that improve the cinema-going experience for people with hearing and sight impairments. The programme also provided funds to YourLocalCinema.com, the film listings website of choice for film-goers with sensory impairments, and the Film Print Provision strand, an ongoing funding initiative that helps distributors produce fully accessible film prints.
The Digital Fund for Non Theatrical Exhibition (launched in 2004) – a £500,000 fund to help expand the activities of film clubs, societies community groups and mobile film exhibitors in order to improve viewing opportunities for audiences in rural areas across the UK that might not be able to support a full-time cinema.
The Digital Screen Network (set up in 2005 by the UK Film Council and the Arts Council England) – a £12 million investment to equip 240 screens in 210 cinemas across the UK with digital projection technology to give UK audiences much greater choice.
Capital funding – the Small Capital Fund (2006) provided £800,000 to help smaller cinemas meet the costs of essential building refurbishments and other improvements such as disabled access; and the Capital and Access Fund for Cinemas (2007) provided £500,000 to help cinemas upgrade their equipment and premises to improve the cinema-going experience for audiences.
completed by malcolm pocock
completed by malcolm pocock
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