Even the most phlegmatic of film producers could be forgiven for thinking “Covid, we have a problem” and harbouring bleak thoughts about the future.
Yet, in a comeback worthy of Rocky Balboa, the industry has risen from the canvas to post a knockout £3.01 billion ($4.16bn) spend on film and high-end television in the first half of 2021, the highest figure reported in British Film Institute records.
“When coronavirus first hit, we went from a fully employed industry to one which wasn't allowed to turn up and go back into production – so no work was happening,” BFI director of industry and international affairs Neil Peplow told The National.
The UK’s first Covid lockdown led to cinemas drawing shut the curtains, meaning no films were distributed and no income was boosting the coffers of either multiplex and smaller independent picture houses.
“It was looking pretty disastrous,” said Mr Peplow, a disaster compounded by the film industry being largely freelance meaning “there was not as much opportunity for furlough”.
May the task force be with you
With its future at stake the BFI convened a cross-industry task force to develop emergency measures to enable a recovery.
Its first task was to get production going again and people back to work. To this end, Covid protocols were developed that applied to film and TV production and post-production visual effects.
Once the framework was signed off by the UK government, the industry was able to get production up and running.
“This was a real boost,” Mr Peplow said. “We were one of the few countries which then could reopen its doors both to the smaller independent sector but also to the larger studio films like Mission: Impossible 7.”
Having a framework was one thing, but being able to work within it was quite another.
While larger film studios could offset the financial risks attendant on shooting during a pandemic, the independent sector was hamstrung by an inability to get insurance.
The task force’s next challenge, then, was to work with the government to revive smaller productions. The result was the £500m Film and TV Production Restart Scheme.
Launched last October but with claims able to be backdated to July 2020, the numbers racked up by the scheme make it an undisputed box office hit.
The BFI estimates that 640 independent film and TV productions will have started or restarted as a direct result of the project within 12 months of its inauguration.
It says these productions have contributed £1.9bn to the UK economy and provided more than 55,000 jobs.
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