BFI, U.K. Government Officially Launch Global Screen Fund Pilot

First Minister, fresh from her party’s victory at the Holyrood election, also said it would be “grave and serious” if Scotland had no path to independence.

coronavirus deaths were recorded overnight in Scotland with 283 new positive cases. The Scottish Government announced the latest figures on Thursday, May 6, as efforts to control the virus spreading continue.

coronavirus deaths were recorded overnight in Scotland with 85 new positive cases. The Scottish Government announced the latest figures on Wednesday, May 5, as efforts to control the virus spreading continue.

Queen Elizabeth has launched a new beer line.

Boomtown and 2000 Trees announced their cancellation in recent weeks, with the AIF previously predicting that this would be the case in the months leading up to the decision.Research from the AIF, which has been tracking the 2021 festival season, shows that 26 per cent of all UK festivals over 5,000 capacity have already announced that they will not be able to go ahead this year.It is thought that organisers are reluctant to shell out huge sums for festivals without Covid insurance as they run

Parent campaigners are demanding the Scottish Government set a date to end mask-wearing in schools. The UK Government has announced that children in schools across England will no longer need to wear a mask in class as of May 17.

EXCLUSIVE: 3D Family animation Two By Two: Overboard (aka Ooops! The Adventure Continues) has sold to Momentum Pictures for the U.S. and Canada.

EXCLUSIVE: 3D Family animation Two By Two: Overboard (aka Ooops! The Adventure Continues) has sold to Magnolia for the U.S. and Canada.

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the UK Government’s failure to secure visa-free travel and Europe-wide work permits for UK musicians and their touring crew.The government has been accused by a number of artists and prominent figures in the UK music industry of creating “chaos and confusion” after the Brexit deal with the EU failed to guarantee the necessary provisions for musicians, creatives and their crew to be able to tour, perform and work in Europe without incurring huge additional costs.It’s feared that the additional

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Established under former Prime Minister Theresa May as part of the government’s LGBT Action Plan, the panel was intended to advise government ministers on “on issues and policies concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.”However, BBC News reports that the panel had not met with senior government officials since last year, and last month three members of the panel stepped down.In doing so, they accused ministers of creating a “hostile environment” for LGBTQ people and said Prime

UK Screen Industries Survey Highlights Socio-Economic ImbalanceA new survey has found that the majority of people working in the UK’s screen industries are from a background that is classified as ‘privileged’. The survey, conducted by the Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre and backed by ScreenSkills, analyzed data from the latest edition of the Office for National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey in 2019.

The UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the BFI have announced the launch of the UK Global Screen Fund, the one year pilot fund designed to help plug the sizeable gap left by the absence of Creative Europe’s MEDIA funding post-Brexit.

Naman Ramachandran The U.K’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the British Film Institute (BFI) have formally launched an export booster fund to replace the European tap that ran dry with Brexit.Grants disbursed from Creative Europe’s MEDIA program were worth an average of €18.5 million ($22.2 million) a year to the cultural and audiovisual sectors in the U.K. and ceased once Brexit came into effect.The new U.K.

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MPs were shocked to hear evidence that salmon companies sent 5,000 tonnes of fish into the EU in January but HMRC recorded exports of only 80 tonnes for the period. Hamish Macdonell, of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, told MPs that the export figures for Scottish salmon published by HMRC were off by 97 per cent.

It has been announced an audience of 4,000 fans will be in attendance the 2021 BRIT Awards.