BFI UK Global Screen Fund International Business Development

Thursday 3rd April, 1.00 - 2.00pm

In-person, at Film City Glasgow

401 Govan Rd

Glasgow

G51 2QJ

The UK Global Screen Fund is a £7M per year fund designed to boost international opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector across film, TV, animation and games.

Attend this session to learn more about the International Business Development strand opening on the 3rd of April from Chris Filip, its Fund Manager.

The session will be packed with insights into the fund itself, tips on the application process and success stories from previous awardees.

Eligibility:

The session is aimed at producers and company founders in film, TV and video games who have at least one leading company credit on a feature film for theatrical and/or online distribution, series which was distributed on TV/AVOD/SVOD/online or interactive narrative video game in the past three years. Full details on eligibility will be explored during the session.

About the Speaker:

Chris Filip was appointed International Business Development Manager for the UK Global Screen Fund in October 2022, working to support UK screen content businesses across film, TV, animation and interactive narrative video games to enhance their international activities. Before joining the BFI, Chris worked with Creative England as Programme Manager for Creative Enterprise, managing the New Ideas Fund, and their games business support programmes - Foundations for Games and Games Scale Up - as part of their flagship business support and investment readiness programme, Creative Enterprise. Before realising that he could help people by putting together programmes, Chris was Game Designer and Product Manager at a variety of games and tech companies. Chris is a BAFTA Games member and in 2023 was selected as one of 50 emerging talents recognised for their contribution to the global games industry as The Games Awards 2023 Future Class.

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Capacity is limited, so early registration is recommended.

Chris has a handful of 1-2-1 slots available to book which are available on a first come first served basis. Please contact the FOCUS team if you wish to book a 1-2-1 slot with Chris directly following the event.

If you are planning to attend and have any access requirements, please contact the FOCUS team about this as soon as you can: hello@filmcityfutures.com

BFI UKGSF Business Development strand information session