Funding and The British Film Institute

Who is The British Film Institute?

The BFI is the Uk's leading organisation for film and TV, it is a cultural charity that curates and presents the greatest international public programme of world cinema for audiences, in cinemas, at festivals and online. It cares for the BFI National Archive, the most significant film and tv archive in the world. They actively seek out and support the next generation of filmmakers and work with the government and industry to make the UK the most creatively exciting place to make film internationally.

The BFI is the distributor of the National Lottery funds for film and was founded in 1933. The BFI national film archive began in 1935, as the national film library (NFL.) In its initial brief, it was going to be a library of educational films distributed into schools and other educational organisations and a respiratory of films. However, it abandoned its educational prerogative in the early 1940's.

The BFI use the national lottery funds to develop and support original UK filmmakers and films, and increase the audiences that view them. Their mission is supporting distinctive emerging filmmakers: films of cultural significance: projects that take risks: and those that recognise the quality of difference. There is a constant push into being more inclusive and representative in film culture. National Lottery funded films have won an astonishing 14 Oscars and 31 Baftas.

Films that have recently been awarded production funding include:

- Free Fire

- I, Daniel Blake

- The girl with all the gifts

- Lean on pete

The BFI have an annual film festival which give people aged between 16 and 25 a chance to attend workshops, masterclasses, provide them with networking opportunities and screenings.