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The urgent need for further support for UK independent producers, a requirement to identify and grasp emergent funding streams and better understanding of what audiences actually want were among the urgent calls to action from Screen International’s ‘The Future of UK Film’ Summit 2024, held on September 24 at BFI Southbank. Top executives from throughout the sector came together for panel talks and Q&a sessions, sharing stories from the industry frontline to inspire and galvanise.

Seven key themes emerged from the various conversations.

Save our producers

The summit began with fresh insights from the British Film Institute (BFI) and industry...

The UK Global Screen Fund [Ukgsf] has opened “massive” post-Brexit opportunities for the UK creative sector, according to Scotland-based animation producer Ken Anderson.

“The Ukgsf is about our outward-looking perspective on the business – this is not about the UK,” said Anderson, speaking on a panel at the Screen Summit ‘The Future of UK Film’ yesterday titled ‘How the UK Global Screen Fund can help facilitate international collaborations’.

“The opportunity is massive. That’s what we’re having to address as a nation post-Brexit – we have to think differently,” continued the producer, who co-founded Wild Child Animation. Anderson stepped down from the company earlier this month,...

Traditional animation, also known as hand-drawn animation, is an animation technique in which each frame of a film is drawn by hand. Traditional animation was the dominant form of animated feature filmmaking from the late 1930s until the beginning of the twenty-first century. The new millennium saw the rise of CG animation, which raked in unprecedented profits for studios, ultimately forcing traditional animation into obscurity.

The Lion King and The Simpsons Movie are the only two traditionally animated films that rank among the top 50 highest-grossing animated films of all time. With that being said, many traditionally animated films have still managed to amass significant profits from the worldwide box office. The highest-grossing traditional animated movies cover multiple eras in animation, from its early beginnings in the 1930s to the Disney Renaissance of the 1990s and into the modern era of the twenty-first century. Each of the highest-grossing traditional animated films...