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11 years, 2 months ago - Catsnake Film

I have managed to get the BFI to release data on the past three years' worth of grant applications. I've broken down the results here http://stephenfollows.com/how-many-bfi-funding-applications-are-successful

The National Lottery is the second largest source of public funding for films in the UK, and in 2012/13 totalled £65.4 million. (Incidentally, the largest source is HMRC, who gave £206 million via the UK film tax relief). The vast majority of Lottery money is awarded by the BFI, and filmmakers are invited to apply for grants within development, production and distribution strands.

In summary...

* In the past three years, the BFI has received 2,505 applications for funding.
* Of those, 720 were successful, equating to 29% of applications.
* Almost half of all applications to the BFI for development funding in 2012/13 were successful.
* In an average year, the BFI receives 353 applications for development funding, 403 for production funding and 79 seeking support for distribution.

More info, and graphs, here http://stephenfollows.com/how-many-bfi-funding-applications-are-successful

On a similar topic, earlier this year I analysed the data on the 29 short films the BFI funded between 2001 and 2013. http://stephenfollows.com/the-short-films-that-the-bfi-funded-2011-14

Thanks,
Stephen