Access to lottery-funding made it too easy for British film-makers to get projects made, the Chairman of the UK Film Council has admitted.
The admission, by Tim Bevan, will be seized upon by those supporting the Coalition’s decision to axe the Film Council and hand responsibility for backing UK film to the British Film Institute.
However Bevan argues that the new structure may now make it too hard to get Film Council-backed projects like The King’s Speech off the ground. And Sam Mendes is leading a wave of directors who are warning that it is now becoming impossible to make mid-budget, intelligent dramas.
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