I came across this interesting article in SCREENDAILY on 5th July 2024, which included view points from many prominent figures in our industry, and I thought to share it with you here.Please add your own views and share it with all of... Read more
I came across this interesting article in SCREENDAILY on 5th July 2024, which included view points from many prominent figures in our industry, and I thought to share it with you here.
Please add your own views and share it with all of us.
What does the UK film & TV industry want from the new Labour government?
BY BEN DALTON 5 JULY 2024
https://www.screendaily.com/news/what-does-the-uk-film-and-tv-industry-want-from-the-new-labour-government/5195222.article
The UK has elected a Labour government, led by prime minister Keir Starmer, with a landslide majority.
Screen has spoken to representatives from across the film and TV industry about what they would like to see the new government do for the sector.
Simon Cornwell, CEO, co-founder, The Ink Factory
There has been – rightly – much feting of the [Conservative] government’s support for lower budget films and of the UK’s tax incentive structure generally for film and high-end television. But this masks a much more damaging trend for the industry which urgently needs to be put right. We make international films and television that showcase to the world the best of our creativity and our industry, but as a direct result of Brexit, we are forced to move significant amounts of expenditure away from the UK to make our shows financially viable.
On the second season of The Night Manager, currently in production, I’d estimate we have had to move between $20 and $30 million dollars of expenditure away from the UK, and from UK crew and talent, in order to access European incentives – something that a few years ago was wholly unnecessary.
This illustrates in the harshest possible way the direct economic harm being done to the UK industry – and the UK generally – by the lack of a close working relationship with Europe. My hope therefore is the new government will tackle this issue head on and take action to reintegrate with Europe on whatever pragmatic basis is available to us, to build a stronger, more prosperous future for our industry and for the UK as a whole.
Anna Higgs, managing director, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates
I’d like to see any new UK government think more holistically about the screen industries. In the early 2000s, I was lucky enough to work with Ken Robinson and Gordon Brown in the set up Creative Partnerships, a flagship £100m+ investment in creativity in education.
What I learnt there, and how that chimed with my own experience trying to break into the creative sectors, is that unless you invest for the long term – thinking about education in, access to, and funding of the arts – you can’t reap the full potentially huge rewards. We all know that Return on Investment on public money spent in our sectors returns at a multiplier directly, but also has innumerable indirect benefits to commerce, health, tourism, technology and beyond; so excuses citing magic money trees are short-sighted at best.
Tax credits come and go and, like surfers ...
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What does the UK film & TV industry want from the new Labour government?
BY BEN DALTON 5 JULY 2024
https://www.screendaily.com/news/what-does-the-uk-film-and-tv-industry-want-from-the-new-labour-government/5195222.article
The UK has elected a Labour government, led by prime minister Keir Starmer, with a landslide majority.
Screen has spoken to representatives from across the film and TV industry about what they would like to see the new government do for the sector.
Simon Cornwell, CEO, co-founder, The Ink Factory
There has been – rightly – much feting of the [Conservative] government’s support for lower budget films and of the UK’s tax incentive structure generally for film and high-end television. But this masks a much more damaging trend for the industry which urgently needs to be put right. We make international films and television that showcase to the world the best of our creativity and our industry, but as a direct result of Brexit, we are forced to move significant amounts of expenditure away from the UK to make our shows financially viable.
On the second season of The Night Manager, currently in production, I’d estimate we have had to move between $20 and $30 million dollars of expenditure away from the UK, and from UK crew and talent, in order to access European incentives – something that a few years ago was wholly unnecessary.
This illustrates in the harshest possible way the direct economic harm being done to the UK industry – and the UK generally – by the lack of a close working relationship with Europe. My hope therefore is the new government will tackle this issue head on and take action to reintegrate with Europe on whatever pragmatic basis is available to us, to build a stronger, more prosperous future for our industry and for the UK as a whole.
Anna Higgs, managing director, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates
I’d like to see any new UK government think more holistically about the screen industries. In the early 2000s, I was lucky enough to work with Ken Robinson and Gordon Brown in the set up Creative Partnerships, a flagship £100m+ investment in creativity in education.
What I learnt there, and how that chimed with my own experience trying to break into the creative sectors, is that unless you invest for the long term – thinking about education in, access to, and funding of the arts – you can’t reap the full potentially huge rewards. We all know that Return on Investment on public money spent in our sectors returns at a multiplier directly, but also has innumerable indirect benefits to commerce, health, tourism, technology and beyond; so excuses citing magic money trees are short-sighted at best.
Tax credits come and go and, like surfers ...
***Click the link for other views**
