Petition Establish a publicly owned and possibly funded film production company.

For 70 years The British film industry has been dominated by the American industry there are two known reason for this fact. The first being that the Americans have the advantage on distribution side and the second being that they know they’ll receive British funding through tax relief breaks.

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the solution is to establish a national production company which would by run by elective committee of British film makers with the purpose of producing Public service feature length films.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34013145

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/03/record-revenues-for-films-made-in-uk

http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2010/aug/28/uk-film-council-arts-funding?INTCMP=SRCH

http://screenrant.com/british-film-industry-hollywood/

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Date closed 26 January 2017
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