Funding

Funding
‘The New Cinema Fund encourages unique ideas, innovative approaches and new voices.’

They are aimed at providing funding’s for films that appeal to a wide audience which short films should cater for.
They will be looking for films with;
-fresh original and dynamic work in any style or genre;
-diverse, innovative, new and 'cutting-edge' filmmaking talent;
films from across the UK and/or from black, Asian and other ethnic minority filmmakers;
-films that utilise the benefits offered by digital technology in the making and showing of films;
-films that have secured or are in the advanced stages of securing the services of a director and principal cast;
-films that have contractually secured, or in our opinion have the potential to do so, a UK theatrical release or a high profile digital release with a distributor, or with a web broadcaster acceptable to the New Cinema Fund

(bulleted info copied from Ukfilmcouncil.org.uk)


They look at projects from scripts with no funding’s through to films that have been shot but in need of completion funding.

-The New Cinema Fund supports:
-Feature films from script stage
-Pilots
-Shorts
-Documentaries - feature length
-Feature films - completion funding
-Warp X
(bulleted info copied from Ukfilmcouncil.org.uk)

The UK Film Council and FilmFour, over 3 years are each going to invest 3million each to help launch the Low Budget Film Scheme to build a scheme for short films for the first time in the UK. Their budget will be 5 million which will fund both feature films and over 100 short films each year. Which scripts will receive funding’s will be decided my the Head of the New Cinema Fund.