Media Release
5th October 2006
Four walls for Film Agency
The recently established Film Agency for Wales has announced its headquarters will be based in Cardiff Bay. The Agency, which is the sole agency for film in Wales, has moved into 33-35 West Bute Street alongside a string of other resident organisations similarly working within the creative industry sector in Wales, such as the Assembly's Creative Business Wales, Skillset, Cyfle, the Welsh Music Foundation, NESTA and Griff Films.
The Film Agency, which employs five full-time staff, has been established to stimulate a competitive, successful and sustainable film industry in Wales and as a priority will work to promote and better develop collaboration within the creative industries in Wales and beyond. In particular, the Agency works across film development, production, exhibition (including film festivals) and education.
The Agency's new office location will allow its 'open door' philosophy towards networking and professional advice to take place more effectively and encourage joint working between organisations and stakeholders, including those already based in the same building as the Agency.
Pauline Burt, Chief Executive, Film Agency for Wales, said, "As a strategic agency for film in Wales we have an important role to play as a key partner in delivering on the Welsh Assembly Government's Creative Success strategy. We are first and foremost an Agency of the industry, for the industry, and I look forward to using our base in Cardiff Bay as a focus to encourage better communication within the creative industry sector in Wales as a whole.
"Not only do we intend as an Agency to collaborate effectively with fellow partners in the industry but also provide a means for the industry in Wales to collaborate more widely. For example, I see the Agency as a conduit to develop a closer relationship between Wales' creative industries and the UK Film Council; the British Film Institute; and a variety of film financiers' and international sales agents, to better locate, nurture and profile Welsh filmmaking talent and open new channels of development, production, distribution and education based funding."
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