FM2 - British Film - an interview with Paul Andrew Williams, the director of "London to Brighton" 2006

Filmmaker's interview with the Paul Andrew Williams, the director of "London to Brighton", is well worth reading to establish how Williams's film can be defined as British. It would also repay study by students researching independent films.

http://filmakermagazine.com/directorinterviews/2008/02/paul-andrew-williams-london-to-brighton.php

FM2 British Film - "London to Brighton"

This blog has helful information and links for "London to Brighton". The information here should be sifted for understanding what makes the film British as well as deepening your understanding of the state of the British film industry.

http://tccbritishcinema.blogspot.com/2008/03/london-to-brighton.html

Contemporary British Cinema - An Overview

Contemporary British Cinema - The Industry

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The state of the British film industry in 2007

"Boomtime for the British film industry thanks to Austen, Mr Bean - and Gordon Brown."

This is an article from last year but its information including facts and figures are useful for assessing the recent state of the British film industry .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/jan/15/film.politics

But . . . here is a different take on the same topic:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2689591.ece

Statistics for the British Media and Film Industry (FS2)

An amazing resource for historical statistical information on The Media and the British Film industry in Britain. But figures for recent decades are absent! However there is a good reason.

"This section assembles historical data about media in the UK. Mostly this data is effectively in the public domain, but for some datasets a cut-off date has been adopted and set at 1985—a not entirely arbitrary year as that it the one in which the British government cancelled the mechanisms by which extensive data about cinema and film releases were collected."

http://www.terramedia.co.uk/statistics/index.htm

The British Film Industry (FS2)

Two great links for reading about and researching the British Film Industry. The Parliamentry Report is thorough and the BBC's British Film Industry pages are wide-ranging.

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmcumeds/667/667.pdf

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/entertainment/2003/british_film_industry/default.stm