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Article: Scottish Screen wins funding battle
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- April 30, 1999
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SCOTTISH Screen, the national film agency, has won its battle
with
the Scottish Arts Council for control of GBP 3 million of lottery
funding available for filmmakers.
The film production committee of the SAC, which decides on the
allocation of funding, will be taken over by Scottish Screen. The
move will bring Scottish cinema into line with England, which is
setting up its own single funding body, the British Film Council.
Sources at Scottish Screen said they would now be forced to
decide
whether cash would be spent on developing new scripts, or on paying
for existing projects to be produced as quickly as possible.
Further details are expected to emerge when Scottish Screen
debates spending ...