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21 May 2022
CO-PRODUCING WITH THE UK – THE UK GLOBAL SCREEN
MEET THE UK GLOBAL SCREEN FUND FUND’S INTERNATIONAL
CO-PRODUCTION STRAND
IS NOW LOOKING
NOW IN its second year, the UK Global Screen Fund has already supported 11 FOR NEW PROJECTS
international co-productions, bringing new global partnerships with territories
including France, Germany, Ireland, Latin America, China and South Africa.
The UK Pavilion panel on Monday, May 23, (11.00-12.00, Pavilion 118, Riviera) FINANCED by the UK government’s
moderated by the head of UK Global Screen Fund Denitsa Yordanova, will discuss Department for Digital, Culture, Media and
case studies with producers who have been supported by the fund and introduce Sport (DCMS) and administered by the
the UK Global Screen Fund team. Participants include: of Sigrid Dyekjaer, producer British Film Institute (BFI), the fund aims to
at Red Lava; Lizzie Gillett, producer at Passion Pictures; Sonja Henrici, producer at support UK producers to work as partners
Sonja Henrici Creates; Jackie Motsepe, CEO of KwaZulu-Natal Film; Shantelle on international co-productions and help
Rochester, producer at Ida Rose; and Eva Weber, director of Merkel and co- create new global projects.
producer at Odd Girl Out Productions).
The fund is open to UK independent
companies as minority co-producers for
feature films of all genres, and as majority
He reported that the BFI has seen increased collaboration Morgan of London-based Quiddity Films, worked on The and minority co-producers for TV projects
levels, driven by the UK’s ambition to keep close ties with Settlers, a Western flick set in Patagonia at the turn of the in animation and documentary genre.
the European partners and at the same time develop new 20th century and an unofficial co-production with Chile’s In its inaugural year, the fund has already
collaboration opportunities with other areas of the world, Quijote Films, Argentina’s Rei Cine, France’s Cine-Sud and supported 11 international co-productions
such as Africa and South America, making its industry more Denmark’s Snowglobe. for a total budget worth over £32m,
and more open to the global market. Meanwhile, the “The Global Screen Fund has enabled me to collaborate on including:
organisation is also helping UK producers to attend the type of Latin American arthouse film that I’d always • Eight feature films
co-production markets and festivals as well as supporting dreamt being part of. I truly feel that it would have been • Three TV projects
delegations to visit new partner countries. For example, one impossible to raise enough funding out of the UK to take • Two animated films
of the delegations has recently visited Nigeria, with the aim part in the project without the fund’s support. It has been
of exploring new co-operation opportunities on the spot. such a pleasure joining a project that has captured so much • Two documentaries
Next, we delved into the mission and the scope of the UK global interest right from the outset.” Morgan said. The fund has already helped UK producers
Global Screen Fund with its head, Denitsa Yordanova: Morgan highlighted that the project’s strong level of secured establish new collaborations with 13
“International partnerships are at the heart of the fund. Its funding and having a sales agent on board dramatically different co-producing partners from
aim is to support the development and the production of increased the chances for their application to be successful, China, the Americas and European Union,
projects with international appeal, as well as the worldwide along with the willingness to make “a creative as well as including Germany, Ireland and France.
distribution of UK content, and to help UK companies to financial co-production” with two of the central characters
For further information and full details on
work with international partners and further their global in the story being British. how to apply, please check the guidelines
growth strategies.” We also spoke to Jez Lewis and Rachel Wexler, producers at here: www.bfi.org.uk/ukglobalscreenfund
Consequently, the core objectives of the fund are also Bungalow Town, who shared their experience on
reflected through its three funding strands: international collaborating with the fund and co-producing their latest
co-production, international distribution and international documentary, Elephant Mother. Budgeted at £604,000 and
business development. Along with the funding strands, the co-produced with Canada’s Inigo Film, the feature centred
consumer brand ScreenUK promotes UK screen content on activist Lek Chailert and her work exposing and
internationally across film, TV, animation, documentaries combatting the abuse of elephants in the Thai tourist team has been extremely helpful. We would definitely
and games. industry. repeat it with the right projects. The support offered by
Speaking about the projects eligible for co-production Co-producing with a Canadian partner gave Lewis and the Global Screen Fund encouraged us to formalise our
support, Yordanova said that the fund is open to “features Wexler the opportunity “to strengthen their presence and co-production with Canada, and help us with the
of any genre where the UK is a minority co-producer” and relationships with the country and with North America associated costs of such an arrangement. The fund also
“TV projects within the genres of documentary and more broadly”. The project received the fund’s international helped improve the final film in several ways, enabling us
animation, wherein the UK can serve as a minority or TV co-production grant, in addition to finances provided to hire composer Evelyn Glennie and co-composer Dave
majority co-producer.” by MEDIA, private equity money and backing from eight Price, opening the film with a short animated sequence,
“To score high in our assessment, projects have to broadcasters. and helped us finalise the post to a high standard,” Lewis
demonstrate strong export potential. They also need to “The co-production experience has been smooth and the and Wexler said. ✦
come with 60% of their financing secured,” she said. In its
pilot year, the fund supported 11 projects made with 13
different co-producing partners including China, the
Americas and European countries such as Germany, Ireland
SCREENUK, A NEW CONSUMER BRAND TO PROMOTEand France. It has received further governmental backing
until 2025, with a total budget of £21m split equally over
the next three years. UK SCREEN CONTENT INTERNATIONALLY
“We’ve supported both official and unofficial SCREENUK showcases and and promote UK content to to exploring new releases and
co-productions, although we have a preference for the celebrates UK independent- global audiences, it aims to brilliant titles from across the
former. Our support is capped at £300,000 per project, spirited film, TV, animation and unearth and unleash unique UK.
awarded in the form of a non-recoupable grant,” she said. video games. stories onto any screen in the Among the platform’s recent
“Projects do not necessarily have to be in English — we Part of the UK Global Screen world. focus are titles such as Tribeca
supported two projects shot in foreign languages in the pilot Fund, it exists to inspire global Offering a curatorial lens with hit All My Friends Hate Me,
year. Furthermore, the UK producer should have at least audiences to discover the best a strong attention to Mick Herron’s arresting
one lead credit for a production distributed internationally of the country’s talent originality and diversity, six-episode spy thriller Slow
or in the UK, but we may accept partnerships with less spanning the entire screen ScreenUK is dedicated to Horses and the surrealist
established professionals, for example first-time directors industries. Rolled out enhancing and expanding horror comedy The Baby.
where there is another key creative in the team who is more internationally through a global perceptions of UK
experienced,” Yordanova concluded. digital campaign to distinguish screen content, as a gateway For further information, please
The first producers collaborating with the fund seem to be
visit: www.screenuk.org
very pleased with the support received. One of them, Emily
NEWS 11
21 May 2022
CO-PRODUCING WITH THE UK – THE UK GLOBAL SCREEN
MEET THE UK GLOBAL SCREEN FUND FUND’S INTERNATIONAL
CO-PRODUCTION STRAND
IS NOW LOOKING
NOW IN its second year, the UK Global Screen Fund has already supported 11 FOR NEW PROJECTS
international co-productions, bringing new global partnerships with territories
including France, Germany, Ireland, Latin America, China and South Africa.
The UK Pavilion panel on Monday, May 23, (11.00-12.00, Pavilion 118, Riviera) FINANCED by the UK government’s
moderated by the head of UK Global Screen Fund Denitsa Yordanova, will discuss Department for Digital, Culture, Media and
case studies with producers who have been supported by the fund and introduce Sport (DCMS) and administered by the
the UK Global Screen Fund team. Participants include: of Sigrid Dyekjaer, producer British Film Institute (BFI), the fund aims to
at Red Lava; Lizzie Gillett, producer at Passion Pictures; Sonja Henrici, producer at support UK producers to work as partners
Sonja Henrici Creates; Jackie Motsepe, CEO of KwaZulu-Natal Film; Shantelle on international co-productions and help
Rochester, producer at Ida Rose; and Eva Weber, director of Merkel and co- create new global projects.
producer at Odd Girl Out Productions).
The fund is open to UK independent
companies as minority co-producers for
feature films of all genres, and as majority
He reported that the BFI has seen increased collaboration Morgan of London-based Quiddity Films, worked on The and minority co-producers for TV projects
levels, driven by the UK’s ambition to keep close ties with Settlers, a Western flick set in Patagonia at the turn of the in animation and documentary genre.
the European partners and at the same time develop new 20th century and an unofficial co-production with Chile’s In its inaugural year, the fund has already
collaboration opportunities with other areas of the world, Quijote Films, Argentina’s Rei Cine, France’s Cine-Sud and supported 11 international co-productions
such as Africa and South America, making its industry more Denmark’s Snowglobe. for a total budget worth over £32m,
and more open to the global market. Meanwhile, the “The Global Screen Fund has enabled me to collaborate on including:
organisation is also helping UK producers to attend the type of Latin American arthouse film that I’d always • Eight feature films
co-production markets and festivals as well as supporting dreamt being part of. I truly feel that it would have been • Three TV projects
delegations to visit new partner countries. For example, one impossible to raise enough funding out of the UK to take • Two animated films
of the delegations has recently visited Nigeria, with the aim part in the project without the fund’s support. It has been
of exploring new co-operation opportunities on the spot. such a pleasure joining a project that has captured so much • Two documentaries
Next, we delved into the mission and the scope of the UK global interest right from the outset.” Morgan said. The fund has already helped UK producers
Global Screen Fund with its head, Denitsa Yordanova: Morgan highlighted that the project’s strong level of secured establish new collaborations with 13
“International partnerships are at the heart of the fund. Its funding and having a sales agent on board dramatically different co-producing partners from
aim is to support the development and the production of increased the chances for their application to be successful, China, the Americas and European Union,
projects with international appeal, as well as the worldwide along with the willingness to make “a creative as well as including Germany, Ireland and France.
distribution of UK content, and to help UK companies to financial co-production” with two of the central characters
For further information and full details on
work with international partners and further their global in the story being British. how to apply, please check the guidelines
growth strategies.” We also spoke to Jez Lewis and Rachel Wexler, producers at here: www.bfi.org.uk/ukglobalscreenfund
Consequently, the core objectives of the fund are also Bungalow Town, who shared their experience on
reflected through its three funding strands: international collaborating with the fund and co-producing their latest
co-production, international distribution and international documentary, Elephant Mother. Budgeted at £604,000 and
business development. Along with the funding strands, the co-produced with Canada’s Inigo Film, the feature centred
consumer brand ScreenUK promotes UK screen content on activist Lek Chailert and her work exposing and
internationally across film, TV, animation, documentaries combatting the abuse of elephants in the Thai tourist team has been extremely helpful. We would definitely
and games. industry. repeat it with the right projects. The support offered by
Speaking about the projects eligible for co-production Co-producing with a Canadian partner gave Lewis and the Global Screen Fund encouraged us to formalise our
support, Yordanova said that the fund is open to “features Wexler the opportunity “to strengthen their presence and co-production with Canada, and help us with the
of any genre where the UK is a minority co-producer” and relationships with the country and with North America associated costs of such an arrangement. The fund also
“TV projects within the genres of documentary and more broadly”. The project received the fund’s international helped improve the final film in several ways, enabling us
animation, wherein the UK can serve as a minority or TV co-production grant, in addition to finances provided to hire composer Evelyn Glennie and co-composer Dave
majority co-producer.” by MEDIA, private equity money and backing from eight Price, opening the film with a short animated sequence,
“To score high in our assessment, projects have to broadcasters. and helped us finalise the post to a high standard,” Lewis
demonstrate strong export potential. They also need to “The co-production experience has been smooth and the and Wexler said. ✦
come with 60% of their financing secured,” she said. In its
pilot year, the fund supported 11 projects made with 13
different co-producing partners including China, the
Americas and European countries such as Germany, Ireland
SCREENUK, A NEW CONSUMER BRAND TO PROMOTEand France. It has received further governmental backing
until 2025, with a total budget of £21m split equally over
the next three years. UK SCREEN CONTENT INTERNATIONALLY
“We’ve supported both official and unofficial SCREENUK showcases and and promote UK content to to exploring new releases and
co-productions, although we have a preference for the celebrates UK independent- global audiences, it aims to brilliant titles from across the
former. Our support is capped at £300,000 per project, spirited film, TV, animation and unearth and unleash unique UK.
awarded in the form of a non-recoupable grant,” she said. video games. stories onto any screen in the Among the platform’s recent
“Projects do not necessarily have to be in English — we Part of the UK Global Screen world. focus are titles such as Tribeca
supported two projects shot in foreign languages in the pilot Fund, it exists to inspire global Offering a curatorial lens with hit All My Friends Hate Me,
year. Furthermore, the UK producer should have at least audiences to discover the best a strong attention to Mick Herron’s arresting
one lead credit for a production distributed internationally of the country’s talent originality and diversity, six-episode spy thriller Slow
or in the UK, but we may accept partnerships with less spanning the entire screen ScreenUK is dedicated to Horses and the surrealist
established professionals, for example first-time directors industries. Rolled out enhancing and expanding horror comedy The Baby.
where there is another key creative in the team who is more internationally through a global perceptions of UK
experienced,” Yordanova concluded. digital campaign to distinguish screen content, as a gateway For further information, please
The first producers collaborating with the fund seem to be
visit: www.screenuk.org
very pleased with the support received. One of them, Emily
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