Northern Alliance - BFI
Northern Alliance - BFI
Northern Alliance - BFI
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4. Evaluation of the UK Film Council‟s activity<br />
4.1 Objectives<br />
Many stakeholders shared the view that there is a lack of clarity over the current<br />
objectives and/or priorities for the UK Film Council‟s short film activities. This lack of<br />
clarity seems to apply to the UK Film Council‟s various internal departments and<br />
teams as well as its strategic partners and other stakeholders consulted. The<br />
following quotes from interviewees illustrate this point.<br />
“We feel we have delivered against what we understood to be the objectives. We<br />
don‟t have many formal targets, but informal benchmarks have developed and been<br />
communicated.”<br />
Strategic partner<br />
“The actual objectives for schemes are unclear. Are they calling cards? To build a<br />
network in a particular region? Provide access? Build diversity? There needs to be<br />
greater clarity of objective.”<br />
Industry interviewee<br />
Given the perceived lack of clarity of objectives, <strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Alliance</strong> asked the strategic<br />
partners to rank the objectives of their short film schemes from 1-9, with 1 as the<br />
highest priority. The results are summarised below (see Appendix IV for more detail<br />
on why short films are made).<br />
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