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Establish a publicly owned and possibly funded film production company.

Submitted on Thursday 28th April 2016

Published on Tuesday 26th July 2016

Current status: Closed

Closed: Thursday 26th January 2017

Signatures: 24

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BBC ~ British ~ Council ~ Tax ~ UK

Petition Action

Establish a publicly owned and possibly funded film production company.

Petition Details

For 70 years The British film industry has been dominated by the American industry there are two known reason for this fact. The first being that the Americans have the advantage on distribution side and the second being that they know they’ll receive British funding through tax relief breaks.

Additional Information

the solution is to establish a national production company which would by run by elective committee of British film makers with the purpose of producing Public service feature length films.

references

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34013145

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/03/record-revenues-for-films-made-in-uk

http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2010/aug/28/uk-film-council-arts-funding?INTCMP=SRCH

http://screenrant.com/british-film-industry-hollywood/


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