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25000 20000 15000 10000 Economic Contribution of the UK Film Industry Chart 4-7: Employment in the core UK film industry by region FTEs (000s) FTEs (000s) 5000 Production Exhibition Distribution Self-employment 0 GL SE NW SW EE Sc WM YH EM Wa NE NI Source : Oxford Economics/CE/LFS/ABI July 2007 An important characteristic of the film industry is its propensity to cluster as geographical proximity brings significant benefits. Examples of key clusters include: • Soho and Westminster – the core of film activity in the UK, where many production companies are located including the large US distributors as well as many UK independents. The post-production and digital effects sectors are particularly concentrated in this locality 11 . • Pinewood-Shepperton – one of the UK’s and world’s leading studios companies, located on the outskirts of London in Buckinghamshire and Middlesex, providing studio and related services to the film and television industries. Accommodation is provided to over 200 businesses which benefit from being located at Pinewood or Shepperton Studios, and large numbers of film-linked businesses have clustered in a wide geographical area around the site. Recent big budget films made at Pinewood have included Casino Royale, His Dark Materials – the Golden Compass, Mamma Mia, Inkheart and The Da Vinci Code. • Elstree and Leavesden studios – two major studios located in Hertfordshire, in Borehamwood and Leavesden respectively. The studios service many US-funded film productions such as Harry Potter. Many small companies exist around these studios supplying services to those companies located onsite at the studios. • Ealing studios – based around the studio is a wide range of companies in the media and technology sector providing a full range of production services to the core UK film industry. The studio is one of the oldest film studios in the world and was responsible for many British films during the golden era of the UK film industry in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Ealing studios has recently returned to film after a gap of many decades with the making of high-profile films such as The Importance of Being Earnest, Notting Hill and Star Wars – Episode 2. 11 London Cultural Capital – Realising the potential of a world-class city, Greater London Authority (April 2004). 25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0 21
Economic Contribution of the UK Film Industry July 2007 Outside London there are centres of film production in Central Scotland, Cardiff, Manchester and Liverpool, Bristol and Nottingham. In addition, all regions host location shoots to a greater or lesser extent (for example, Harry Potter at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland). The UK Film Council invests almost £8 million a year into regional film activities through the Regional Investment Fund for England (RIFE) which supports the nine Regional Screen Agencies in England providing a variety of resources aimed at developing public access to, and education about, film and the moving image. There are also national screen agencies for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (Figure 4-1). The Northern Ireland Film and TV Commission The Film Agency for Wales Figure 4.1: The National and Regional Screen Agencies The film industry is part of a wider screen industry cluster (ie film, TV, corporate video, commercials and interactive media). Indeed, multi-sector working is particularly widespread, with two-thirds of firms in the Scottish Screen 22
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