UK Film Council

1. What evidence can you find in the article that the UK film industry is healthy?

UK film production reached £1.155 billion across 119 films in 2010 - A record breaking high for the BFI.

2. What are domestic, inward investment and co-production? Give an example of each.

Domestic are original UK films, Inward Investment are international films that come to work in Britain to use our studios or equipment such as Harry Potter and co-production is when UK films get money from another company to help produce their film such as Slumdog Millionaire who had to co-operate to get more money so they could film in India and a domestic film is when all the money for the film is solely from Britain.

3. Is there any evidence that there are problems with the UK film industry ?

From the article we can tell that most money being made is coming in from the Inward Investment, this could be a problem as the UK film industry isn't being recognised for their work but for letting other companies come and use their facilities. We can see that between 2003-2010 inward investments brought in £4952 which is a big £3501.4 more than domestic films in 7years.

4. According to Tim Cagney what problems does the UK film industry face ?

The UK film industry faces difficulty in rasing finances for more indepedent films.

5.Do you agree that the UK relies on Hollywood to remain 'healthy' ?

In some ways I do agree with the statement, but not because the UK isn't good at film production but because Hollywood are more dominating and are they're wealthier and can bring in more money for the UK which does make it look like BFI relies on them. However BFI can also go to other companies to co-produce and other companies worldwide would come to BFI to use their equiptment. In some ways the UK film industry does fully rely on Hollywood to remain healthy as a lot of the budget comes from inward investments and without those inward investments the UK may not have had the means to produce high grossing films such as Slumdog Millionaire.