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4. Evaluation of the UK Film Council‟s activity 4.1 Objectives Many stakeholders shared the view that there is a lack of clarity over the current objectives and/or priorities for the UK Film Council‟s short film activities. This lack of clarity seems to apply to the UK Film Council‟s various internal departments and teams as well as its strategic partners and other stakeholders consulted. The following quotes from interviewees illustrate this point. “We feel we have delivered against what we understood to be the objectives. We don‟t have many formal targets, but informal benchmarks have developed and been communicated.” Strategic partner “The actual objectives for schemes are unclear. Are they calling cards? To build a network in a particular region? Provide access? Build diversity? There needs to be greater clarity of objective.” Industry interviewee Given the perceived lack of clarity of objectives, <strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Alliance</strong> asked the strategic partners to rank the objectives of their short film schemes from 1-9, with 1 as the highest priority. The results are summarised below (see Appendix IV for more detail on why short films are made). Page 22
Table 5: Strategic partners‟ priorities regarding the role of short films Rank Strategic partners‟ priorities 28 1 Developing exceptional talent 2 Discovering new talent 3 Helping key talent move to feature films 4 Producing critically acclaimed short films 5 Encouraging creative experimentation 6 Encouraging diversity in the film industry 7 Producing short films for a wide public audience 8 Encouraging use of digital and new technologies 9 Training all crew In addition, there was a broadly held view among interviewees that the UK Film Council is focusing on the wrong aspects of projects: both in concentrating on individual films rather than underlying talent, and in focusing on the volume of films produced, rather than the effectiveness of the schemes in nurturing talent. As part of this review, we compared the UK Film Council‟s provision to that of some international peers (see Appendix XI). In larger mature and developed economies similar to the UK, a tiered pattern of support at national, regional and local level is not unusual. As well as a more devolved approach at lower levels, the resources invested in individual short films produced at the top of the range was typically higher than in the UK. Some of these countries, most notably New Zealand, also appear to have prosecuted a strategy vigorously targeted at achieving international recognition via representation at leading film festivals and major awards ceremonies. There appears to be significantly higher commitment, both in terms of finance and human resources, to marketing the makers of their best short films to the international industry and making explicit commitments to their transition to feature filmmaking. There is a need to refresh and re-state the UK Film Council‟s aims, objectives and targets so that its programmes remain relevant and competitive on a global stage. 29 28 Source: strategic partners questionnaire for this report, completed by a sample of 25 strategic partners in May 2009. 29 The principal conclusions from each section of this report (underlined) are carried forward into section 5, where they are discussed further and form the basis of recommendations. Page 23
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