How the Global Screen Fund will work for UK companies

Neil Peplow, director of industry and international at the British Film Institute (BFI), has outlined in detail how companies can access the new £7m UK Global Screen Fund (GSF), the creation of a UK version of Unifrance, and a summit to discuss the progress of the fund later this year.

The GSF went live as a one-year pilot in April by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and is being administered by the BFI. Its aim is to boost the global exports of UK screen content as a new source of international distribution, business development and co-production funding for UK companies in the film, TV, documentary, animation and interactive sectors.

Talking at Screen and Broadcast’s Restart conference on Tuesday (May 18), Peplow described the creation of the GSF as “an incredible win for the sector” at a time when the UK government was hugely “pressed” by Covid recovery demands.

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