Summary
AS A former head of the Locations Department at Scottish Screen I wholly endorse the open letter sent by Scotland's leading film producers to the First Minister calling for Scottish Screen to be restructured and retained (June 21).
Watching the dead hand of bureaucracy destroy Scotland's film agency over the past couple of years has not been a pretty sight. But the answer is not to merge it into Creative Scotland, it is to gear it precisely to the needs of the industry. That industry is worth millions of pounds a year and employs hundreds of highly skilled workers. These people deserve the support of a government agency staffed by professionals from the business, not "arts" administrators.See the full content of this document
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To Meet the Needs of the Film Industry
The Locations Department attracts inward film and TV investment into Scotland worth at least GBP10m a year. It has succeeded in t...
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