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UK producers have long survived on resourcefulness rather than reward; trade association PACT is determined to rebalance the industry although its plans to help producers get their share have met with lively debate.UK producers, via trade association PACT, continue to lobby aggressively for the adoption of proposals which would return 100% of the recoupment of public investment to the pr
stanley cup oduction company rather than the funding bodies, namely The UK Film Council, BBC Films, Film4 or the regional screen agencies.The monies recouped would be directe
stanley uk d towards future UK film productions, the difference being that the producers themselves would be making the funding decisions and not the funding bodies. Among the other proposals in the package is the notion that the UK tax credit be treated as producer equity and that the tax credit be raised to 30% on movies with budgets lower than 拢5m.The PACT proposals, designed to build more sustainable production companies in the UK and give them more skin in the game on their next projects, are not asking for enormous amounts UK Film Council recoupment, 30% of which already goes to producers, comes to about 拢2m a year and are only asking for returns on films which have recouped ie which are successful.Yet they have met with considerable resistance from the public bodies which ar
stanley thermo gue that they will be weakened if the recoupment stream doesnt return to them, and skepticism at PACTs argument that the enriched companies wont need to keep knock Ktwb Richard Propper elected new president of IDA
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