Government Plans to Abolish UK Film Council
Posted July 29, 2010 05:30 PM by Tommy Morghen 1 comments
Just as I’d commissioned someone to write a script about a one-eyed black sexually-abused Jewish lesbian who finds love in the arms of a Romanian gypsy asylum seeker who’s just had her application turned down.
I was even planning on shooting it on that high rise council estate in London where they shot all their films about excluded minorities.
Damn! That’s me down a few quid. Still, at least they didn’t have anything to do with Bad Lad, which was made on no money and spent four weeks in the ASDA top 30. So, go on, by lucky, make my day, click on the link and buy a copy!
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From: Kid In The Front Row, 08/15/10 08:28 AM
I get it, I get it; "Just as I’d commissioned someone to write a script about a one-eyed black sexually-abused Jewish lesbian who finds love in the arms of a Romanian gypsy asylum seeker who’s just had her application turned down." -- because you feel like all the UK film council did was fund these guys.
First of all - the fact is, it is harder for these minorities to make films. They have challenges that us privileged white folk could never imagine. The fact is: if you're disabled, or a Romanian gypsy, or an asylum seeker; people don't value you, and getting a film made is ridiculously impossible. So when film funds do try to reach out to these people, it is making the playing field more even, NOT giving them priority.
And besides, the other point; it was mainly the successful middle class English boys who were getting their films made by the UK Film Council anyway. More than anything, they were funding already established folk like Boyle and Leigh.