Uk Film Council

The UK film council is the government backed lead agency for film in the UK  ensuring that the economic, cultural and educational aspects of the film are effectively represented at home and abroad.

The UK film council supports script development, film production, short films, film education, cultures and archives, festivals and audience support schemes.

The UK film council supports filmmakers in the UK who are emerging or world class and are capable of creating distinctive and entertaining work. They have £15 million a year to invest across the development, production and the completion of feature films.

One of the UK film council funds are prints and advertising fund which is designed to widen and support the distribution and marketing strategy of specialised films and to offer support to more commercially focused British films that nevertheless remain difficult to market.

Microwave Scheme

The microwave scheme is a scheme which helps small film makers publicise their film by giving them small amounts of money usually about £100,000. This can work because the microwave scheme takes in a percentage of the money the film makers earn. For example the film Shifty had the microwave scheme behind it which means ten percent of the money the film makes goes to the film London microwave scheme.

            The microwave scheme has helped in the making of Shifty which is about the life of a Muslim drug dealer, Mum and Dad which is a horror film set around London Heathrow airport, Freestyle which is a teen romance set in the world of free style basketball and many more.

            The microwave scheme was interested with the making of shifty because the film makers wanted to make a business which is what the microwave scheme wants to create as their goal not just one of productions which don’t help towards their brief.