The British Film Institute’s Transition Fund is dishing out just under £900,000 across 37 British events and projects in its inaugural cash drop.
Cash recipients in this round of funding include the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the British Independent Film Awards and the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival.
The £2 million Transition fund for audience development, was set up by the BFI to support the industry in the wake of swinging cuts to the U.K. film landscape announced by the government last year.
The first round of projects to be funded “all demonstrated that their funding for core activities has been significantly reduced or withdrawn for the financial year 2011-12”, according to the BFI.
The BIFAs received £52,718 while the EIFF grabbed £17,000 through a fast-track assessment process last month. Watershed Bristol, a media center in England, secured £67,500, the second highest single award to date after the £77,452 snaffled by organizers of the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival.
The next round of projects to be awarded transition funding will be revealed by the BFI before the end of July.
The Transition Fund, which derived from previously unallocated money, was established to assist U.K. film bodies feeling the pain of a 50 percent reduction in grant-in-aid funding suffered by the UKFC shortly before it was merged with the BFI, an Arts Council England funding reduction and local councils tightening their arts spending.
A full list of projects awarded cash by the Transition Fund follows:
AV Festival – £20,000
BIFAs/British Independent Film Awards – £ 52,718
Birmingham International Film Society – £8,000
Borderlines Film Festival – £11,025
British Federation of Film Societies – £46,350
Canterbury Anifest – £2,790
Chichester International Film Festival – £3,500
Cornerhouse Manchester – £18,000
Edinburgh International Film Festival – £19,620
Encounters Bristol International Film Festival – £50,000
Fashion in Film – £17,559
FilmClub – £141,000
Flicks in the Sticks – £6,210
Glasgow Film Theatre – £7,182
ICA, London – £23,100
Kendal Mountain Festival – £19,350
Leeds Film – £35,000
Light House, Wolverhampton – £12,124
London Metropolitan Archives – £19,000
London Short Film Festival – £1,800
Assembly Rooms Ludlow – £4,100
mac Birmingham – £8,700
National Media Museum – £38,700
ONEDOTZERO – £15,890
PBQ – £20,000
Phoenix Square, Leicester – £ 9,000
Portland Green Cultural Projects – £14,361
Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast – £20,000
The Sensoria Festival – £9,980
Sheffield International Documentary Festival – £ 77,452
Showroom Cinema, Sheffield – £ 9,900
Southend-on-Sea Film Festival – £20,000
Strode Theatre, Somerset – £ 17,227
Tricycle Theatre, London – £10,134
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle – £ 22,275
Watershed, Bristol – £67,500
YourLocalCinema.com – £9,000
Cash recipients in this round of funding include the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the British Independent Film Awards and the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival.
The £2 million Transition fund for audience development, was set up by the BFI to support the industry in the wake of swinging cuts to the U.K. film landscape announced by the government last year.
The first round of projects to be funded “all demonstrated that their funding for core activities has been significantly reduced or withdrawn for the financial year 2011-12”, according to the BFI.
The BIFAs received £52,718 while the EIFF grabbed £17,000 through a fast-track assessment process last month. Watershed Bristol, a media center in England, secured £67,500, the second highest single award to date after the £77,452 snaffled by organizers of the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival.
The next round of projects to be awarded transition funding will be revealed by the BFI before the end of July.
The Transition Fund, which derived from previously unallocated money, was established to assist U.K. film bodies feeling the pain of a 50 percent reduction in grant-in-aid funding suffered by the UKFC shortly before it was merged with the BFI, an Arts Council England funding reduction and local councils tightening their arts spending.
A full list of projects awarded cash by the Transition Fund follows:
AV Festival – £20,000
BIFAs/British Independent Film Awards – £ 52,718
Birmingham International Film Society – £8,000
Borderlines Film Festival – £11,025
British Federation of Film Societies – £46,350
Canterbury Anifest – £2,790
Chichester International Film Festival – £3,500
Cornerhouse Manchester – £18,000
Edinburgh International Film Festival – £19,620
Encounters Bristol International Film Festival – £50,000
Fashion in Film – £17,559
FilmClub – £141,000
Flicks in the Sticks – £6,210
Glasgow Film Theatre – £7,182
ICA, London – £23,100
Kendal Mountain Festival – £19,350
Leeds Film – £35,000
Light House, Wolverhampton – £12,124
London Metropolitan Archives – £19,000
London Short Film Festival – £1,800
Assembly Rooms Ludlow – £4,100
mac Birmingham – £8,700
National Media Museum – £38,700
ONEDOTZERO – £15,890
PBQ – £20,000
Phoenix Square, Leicester – £ 9,000
Portland Green Cultural Projects – £14,361
Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast – £20,000
The Sensoria Festival – £9,980
Sheffield International Documentary Festival – £ 77,452
Showroom Cinema, Sheffield – £ 9,900
Southend-on-Sea Film Festival – £20,000
Strode Theatre, Somerset – £ 17,227
Tricycle Theatre, London – £10,134
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle – £ 22,275
Watershed, Bristol – £67,500
YourLocalCinema.com – £9,000
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