Part 3

Outside of the UK Film Council, are there any other schemes that exist to help fund short films?
E.g. http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-film.htm

The British Council Film Department
The British Council Film Department work in over 70 countries to promote contemporary and innovative work from the UK to audiences around the world. They support film festivals, showcases, workshops and skills developments.
The British Council Film Department’s aims are to help build and develop relationships between the UK and other countries in order to foster partnership, mutual understanding and tolerance. Also they aim to present the UK in all its diversity and multiculturalism.
The company provide grants to enable UK filmmakers to attend festivals, markets and showcase screenings.

Skillset
Aims to maintain the world-class status of the UK creative industries. They also aim to help people gain a wide range of skills, ensuring they thrive within the film industry. The company does all this by ensuring the industry always has professionals, by supporting schemes that are being set up.

The British Film Institute
The British Film Institute aims to widen the audience and increase the popularity of the film industry. They run the annual London Film Festival and also try to broaden the education of films that is being taught to students. To do this they receive 16 million a year from the UKFC.