UK screen sectors received £300m EU funding in the last decade, BFI study finds

Funding gap could potentially emerge post-Brexit in March 2019A BFI report, Mapping Study of EU Funding of the UK Screen Sectors, reveals 1,766 UK screen sector projects benefited from EU money over the last decade.Of the nearly £300m received in total, £154.3m went directly to UK-based organisations, £92.4m to projects in which the UK was involved, and £51.8m given to European distributors to release UK films.Creative Europe’s cultural funding programme (known as Media 2007-2013, before dividing into two programmes, the Media programme and the Culture programme, under the banner Creative Europe after that date) granted the largest amount,

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