A total of 130 producers, funders, trade bodies and studios have submitted recommendations to the UK government’s Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee, which was launched in July, to look at what can be done to maintain the UK’s status as a global hub for international production and how independent producers and the struggling exhibition sector can best be supported.
It was created in the wake of the fall-out from the US WGA and SAG-AFTRA writers’ and actors’ strikes; the collapse of the Empire Cinemas group, Cineworld’s financial woes and the current closure of independent cinemas such as the Edinburgh Filmhouse and Light House Wolverhampton; and soaring costs damaging the independent production sector.
