Links
We hope you find the following links useful. Please let us know if there's a website you'd like to share with the Film Agency and its website readers.
General:
- Code of Practice for Graduate Internships in the Creative Industries
- Soundtrack: The international Film and Music Festival for Wales
- The National Assembly for Wales
- Arts Council for Wales
- UK Film Council
- UKThe National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
- Limelight – tax credit cashflow and other financial incentives
- Welsh Music Foundation – Composers for Media
- Wales Arts International
- British Council
- Screen International
- Variety
- Hollywood Reporter
- Internet Movie Database
- Skillset
- NESTA
- Welsh Music Foundation
- UK MEDIA Desk
- BAFTA
- BAFTA Cymru
- Subtitled and Audio Described Cinema
- Find Any Film
- The Welsh Assembly Government – Flexible Support for Business
- UK Film Council Exports
- Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund
- FilmClub Wales
Short Film Related Links:
Exhibition:
- Live Cinema Events
- British Federation of Film Societies
- British Film Institute
- Creative Mwldan Creadigidol – Programming and Marketing Guidelines for Accessible Screenings
- Film Distributors Association
- FilmClub Wales
- Subtitled and Audio Described Cinema
- The Welsh Assembly Government – Flexible Support for Business
Education:
- Creative Supporters
- Film: 21st Century Literacy
- BFI 100 Films
- British Film Institute
- Cyfle
- Film Education
- Film School London
- Film Street
- First Light
- Haberdashers Monmouth Film School
- Media Education Wales
- National Film and Television School
- Reel Education
- Screen Academy Network
- Media Academy Wales
- The Welsh Assembly Government – Flexible Support for Business
- The European Centre for Training and Regional Co-operation
- FilmClub: Michael Sheen's 2 minute message to Assembly Members
- University of Wales – Global Academy
Development:
- The Bureau
- Channel 4 Funding Your Short Film
- Dazzle Films
- Moonstone
- ScriptWriter Magazine
- Shorts International
- The Screenwriters' Store
- Welsh Music Foundation – Composers for Media
- Writers' Guild of Great Britain
- You Tube
- The Welsh Assembly Government – Flexible Support for Business
Production:
- BBC Wales
- BBC Films
- BECTU
- BKSTS
- British Board of Film Classification
- Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation
- Code of Practice for Graduate Internships in the Creative Industries
- Database of European Film Funding
- Department of Culture Media and Sport (incs British Film qualification rules, international co-production treaties and European Co-Production Convention)
- Directors UK
- European Database of TV Channels and Production Companies
- Film Four
- Limelight – tax credit cashflow and other financial incentives
- ITV Wales
- PACT
- Reduced Carbon Filmmaking
- S4C
- TAC
- The British Documentary Website
- Wales Screen Commission (includes location, crew and facility information)
- Welsh Animation Group
- Welsh Music Foundation – Composers for Media
- The Welsh Assembly Government – Flexible Support for Business
- International Export of UK Films
- BBC Wales
- BBC Films
- BECTU
- BKSTS
- British Board of Film Classification
- Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation
- Code of Practice for Graduate Internships in the Creative Industries
- Database of European Film Funding
- Department of Culture Media and Sport (incs British Film qualification rules, international co-production treaties and European Co-Production Convention)
- Directors UK
- European Database of TV Channels and Production Companies
- Film Four
- Limelight – tax credit cashflow and other financial incentives
- ITV Wales
- PACT
- Reduced Carbon Filmmaking
- S4C
- TAC
- The British Documentary Website
- Wales Screen Commission (includes location, crew and facility information)
- Welsh Animation Group
- Welsh Music Foundation – Composers for Media
- The Welsh Assembly Government Flexible Support for Business
- International Export of UK Films
International:
- Centre du Cinema et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communaute Francaise de Belgique
- Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds
- National Film Centre, Ministry of Culture – Bulgaria
- Republic of Croatia Ministry of Culture
- Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
- Danish Film Institute
- Estonian Film Foundation
- Finnish Film Foundation
- Bundesamt fur Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle – Germany
- Greek Film Centre
- National Film Office of Hungary
- Icelandic Film Centre
- Bord Scannan na heireann / Irish Film Board
- Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali – Italy
- Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
- Centre National de l'audivisuel, Ministere de la Culture – Luxembourg
- Macedonian Film Fund
- Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Montenegro
- Ministry for Economic Services of Malta
- Netherlands Film Fund
- Norwegian Film Fund
- Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland
- Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimedia – Portugal
- Centrul National al Cinematografiei – Romania
- Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovak
- Slovenian Film Fund
- Ministerio de Cultura: Instituto de Cinematografia y de las Arts Audiovisuales – Spain
- Svenska Filminstitutet – Sweden
Company Support
- Welsh Assembly Government: Flexible Support for Business
- Grants
- Skills and Training
- Skillset Cymru Training Framework
- Welsh Assembly Govt – Workforce Development
- Finance Wales
- UK and European Grant Finder
- Department for Business Innovation and Skills
- Relocating Your Business to Wales
- International Opportunities Fund
- Business Link
- Knowledge Exchange Wales
- Skillset TV
- Welsh Government Support for Creative Industries
Writers & writing:
- Academi
- BBC
- BBC Writers' Room
- Binger Institute
- Daily Script
- FINAL DRAFT
- IMDSB
- Judith Weston
- Moonstone
- Movie Scripts & Screenplays
- New Welsh Review
- Scriptwriter Magazine
- Screenwriters' Store (UK)
- Screenwriters' Utopia
- Sherman Cymru
- Writers' Guild of GB
- Writers' Guild of America
- Times Film School
Other sites of interest
- BBC New Filmmakers & Shorts
- British Council – Main
- British Council – Britfilms
- British Film Institute
- The Directors' Guild of Great Britain
- EAVE Producers' Course
- European Film Academy
- Film London
- Project Gutenberg
- The Knowledge
- Trailers
- Women in Film & Television
UK broadcasters
- BBC
- BBC Drama Commissioning Guidelines
- BBC Films
- BBC Wales
- Channel 4
- Channel 4 for Producers;
- Channel 5
- Film 4
- ITV
- ITV Wales
- S4C
Distributors & sales agents
-
Film Distributors Association
This includes a useful overview of distribution by Stewart Till - AV Pictures
- Focus Features
- Fox Searchlight
- Icon
- Momentum
- Paramount Vantage
- Pathe
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Wild Bunch
- UK Film Council Exports
Services/Facilities
Marketing and Distribution
- Think Outside the Box Office
- Hulu
- YouTube
- JustIn
- UStream
- Joost
- Babelgum
- Daily Motion
- MySpace
- Media Mind
- Area 17
- Hot Cherry
- Think Jam
Fundraising
- Showcase of Fundraising Innovation and Inspiration
- The Nationwide Foundation
- Community Foundation Merseyside
- Hilton in the Community Foundation
- The John Ellerman Foundation
- The Elephant Trust
- The Wakeham Trust
- The Baring Foundation
- Adventure Capital Fund
- European Cultural Foundation
- European Commission Culture Programme
- European Commission - Youth
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation
- The Clore Duffield Foundation
- Henry Smith Charity
- Google Grants
- BBC Performing Arts Fund
- The Hedley Foundation
- The Allen Lane Foundation
- The Steel Charitable Trust
- Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
- Big Lottery Fund
- Lottery Funding
- Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
- Ibrahim Foundation
- Future Builders
- Awards For All
- Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
- Lloyds TSB Foundation
- Jerwood Charitable Foundation
- The Peter De Haan Charitable Trust
- Foyle Foundation
- Funder Finder
- Media Trust
