UK Global Screen Fund announces latest awards

The BFI has made 19 new awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, supporting international opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. Financed through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the awards see a further £527,564 being allocated through the £7m per year fund’s International Business Development and International Distribution strands.

Financial support for International Distribution provides sales agents and producers from all over the UK with funding via three tracks:

• Film Sales, supporting UK sales agents to increase their international promotion and sales of UK feature film projects

• Prints and Advertising (P&A), supporting UK films to reach international audiences

• Festival Launch, supporting the festival launch of UK films in order to enhance their promotion, reach and audiences internationally

Financial support for International Business Development provides UK companies with funding via one of two tracks:

• Film Transformation, for internationally-focused transformational business strategies related to independent UK films, with strategies spanning three to five years

• General, for business strategies to create, acquire and/or exploit intellectual property (IP) across film, TV, animation, documentary and interactive narrative video games, with strategies spanning three years

“Supporting the global ambitions of our independent UK screen sector is critical in ensuring its continued success in the international marketplace,” said Denitsa Yordanova, BFI Head of UK Global Screen Fund and International Funds. “It is so exciting to see a breadth of UK companies devising unique growth strategies, alongside such a wealth of UK feature films being so well received on the international festival and market circuit. The UK Global Screen Fund is proud to back this latest batch of awardees and looks forward to following their success.”

Companies to receive UK Global Screen Fund International Business Development awards, via the Film Transformation track, are…