MUMBAI: The British Government will soon merge the UK Film Council (UKFC) and the British Film Institute (BFI).
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport and key industry figures, including new UKFC chairman Tim Bevan, are now in plans to create a single body that will take on the cultural and economic remit of both organisations.
A working group, chaired by the DCMS with equal representation from the two bodies, is now being set up to consider how a single body would be structured and how to improve its service to film by reducing gaps and overlapping. It is expected to report back by the end of the year.
It is hoped that a streamlined body would be freed up to spend more of its funding on films and frontline services and less on infrastructure, and that this in turn, would help it to better support the British film and promotion of the industry.
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