It was announced by the government on the Monday 26th July 2010 that the UK Film Council will be abolished. I have read several newspaper stories about an I was not happy. As I plan to to woking in animation and special effects not having a Film Council could be terrible for a lot of people in the UK.
My plan was to see what I could do to help the best was I know how. Through design. I began searching for any organisations that were trying to help the British Film Industry and found one: http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/ On this sine I was looking for someone to get in touch with who needed promotional material for what I assumed to be a good cause. I e-mailed the man who appeared to be in charge only to find out that the history of the British Film Council appears to be a scam. After an hour long phone call I understood. The British Film Council appeared to cater for 75 employees; fat cats that were being paid hundreds of thousands per year so they could live the high life, stop diversity and stand in the way of british film.
Although you would all like to think that films such as James Bond and Harry Potter are british, they are not. They have been funded by hollywood studios such as warner brother and paramout. This is an opportunity for the british film industry more specifically the west milands. A large number of studio sound stages are based around London but they are running out of room. There is a lot of space in the midlands for their large studio sound stages but the bosses of the film council were not allowing these areas to expand to other parts of country. If we can convince the council an by extent the government to invest in this it could not only provide long term jobs but also see the revival of the British film industry. For more information please visit http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/
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