Finance

FINANCE

-          This is an important part of the pre-production process to assess the financial wideness of the production.

- Potential sources of finance: 

- Requirements - Expenditure

SOURCES OF FUNDING

Funding

TV channels

BBC, ITV and Channel 4 all support short filmmaking.

Sometimes funding is direct

Sometimes funding is “in kind”

Commissions (e.g. BBC3 Original shorts, It’s My Shout)

Development (e.g. Channel 4 director development programme)

Screening support (e.g. ITV and Odeon anti-bullying shorts)

Competitions (e.g. BBC3 The Fear)

Government funding

- Governments who fund for shorts are coming increasingly bigger through the UK Film Council, but there are additional sources to look hard and to work your film around the agendas. Many sources look to fund digital shorts as oppose to projects that want to shoot on film, based on the argument some directors had proposing they stick to a cheaper medium such as short film. This was to reduce the chance of bankruptcy if it were to happen.

Requirements: - expenditure

National

British Film Institute directly funds feature length projects

BFI does not fun stand-alone shorts directly

Regional

British Film Institute Funding Partners

-          Creative England

-          Creative Scotland

-          Film Agency for Wales

-          Northern Ireland Screen

-          Film London

Local Government funding

London Borough film funds (e.g. Wandsworth, Croydon, Camden)

Private funding

Cinema companies

-          Odeon

-          Curzon

Media companies

-          Sony

-          VIRIGIN MEDIA

Other

-          BMW