Northern Alliance - BFI
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Table 9: International success and its cost, from inception to August 2009<br />
Scheme<br />
Number<br />
of films<br />
produced<br />
Total cost<br />
to NCF 35<br />
(£)<br />
UK Film Council<br />
recorded outputs 36 Cost of success (£)<br />
Cost per<br />
Selected High screening Cost per<br />
for A-list profile at A-list high profile<br />
festivals awards and festivals award or<br />
for shorts nominations for shorts nomination<br />
Cinema<br />
Extreme 24 966,574 4 5 241,644 119,315<br />
Digital<br />
Shorts Plus /<br />
Digital<br />
Nation 25 448,871 6 2 74,812 224,436<br />
On the basis of this (admittedly crude) analysis, while Cinema Extreme has been<br />
effective at producing short films that garner attention and praise, this appears to be<br />
largely attributable to a small number of its earlier productions.<br />
The Completion Fund appears to be less effective; the proportion of films that<br />
achieve recognition appears especially low given the nature of the fund‟s<br />
intervention. Its engagement, which comes after principal photography, should allow<br />
it to achieve the highest percentage of awards, nominations and screenings. It also<br />
appears to be relatively inefficient; again the nature of its intervention should in<br />
theory allow it to direct resources to where the highest payback is likely. In practice,<br />
it is only 22% more cost effective 37 at securing high profile screenings than the<br />
higher risk intervention of the Digital Shorts programme which funds the entire<br />
filmmaking process.<br />
Given its role, it is perhaps most unfair to measure the Digital Shorts programme in<br />
this way. However, after discounting the inevitably higher level of redundancy<br />
associated with providing a programme to include new or recent filmmakers, Digital<br />
35 See footnote 34 above.<br />
36 Source: UK Film Council official collected statistics.<br />
37 Cost per screening for Completion Fund films, as calculated above, divided by the equivalent for<br />
Digital Shorts.<br />
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