Filmmakers may benefit from production costing software

Tue Jun 22 2010 11:13

Production costing software may be of benefit to filmmakers.

Production costing software may have an important role to play for British filmmakers, if recent suggestions are anything to go by.

British Producers' trade body Pact has put forward proposals to the government aiming to end the "suffocating cycle of reliance on subsidies".

As part of the plans more than 70 British filmmakers signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph asking for the organisations that fund films to allow the revenue to be ploughed back into filmmaking.

The letter says: "British films are critical both to our culture and our economy, with a vibrant and successful independent film sector that has generated such hits as An Education, Nowhere Boy and The Last King of Scotland."

It adds the sector relies heavily on public funding, from the UK Film Council, BBC Films and Film4, most of which recoup their investment before allowing any returns to the producers.

This leaves producers with no funding for their next project, it states.

Creative industries minister Ed Vaizey recently suggested the film industry would need to be "reassessed" in order to ensure it moves forward.