Ed Vaizey announced what his department’s doing with the British film industry earlier today. Since announcing the demise of the UK Film Council things have been a bit up in the air. Some of those things are still up there, but we know a bit more now. You can read the full official announcement from DCMS here.
On a local level, and in short, the regional screen agencies (including Screen WM locally) are being ‘recalibrated’ into three hubs; Creative North, Creative Central and Creative South. Creative England will be the overarching organisation.
And I, for one, welcome our new film overlords.
More information will be coming in the new year but in the meantime here’s some explanation/more intelligent comment: