This week saw the BFI release details about the British films it has invested in since April 2011.

All told, it has awarded “20 independent British feature film productions over £13.2m in Lottery funding, including five films by women directors and ten from first or second time filmmakers… Films backed through the BFI Film Fund have garnered sixteen BAFTA nominations.”

Commenting, Amanda Nevill, BFI CEO said: “We”re delighted to be part of such a wide range of dynamic new British films. One of the most exciting things about the BFI”s Film Fund is that we can support talented new filmmakers making their first features, and help some of the UK”s most well known and respected directors create ambitious, large-scale films. This breadth of inspiring films offers such an exciting proposition for audiences.”

Supported projects include: Great Expectations, directed by Mike Newell and produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley from Number 9 Films; Jonathan Glazer”s Under The Skin, which stars Scarlett Johansson and is produced by James Wilson (Attack The Block) and Streetdance 2 3D, written by Jane English and produced by Allan Niblo and James Richardson for Vertigo Films.

Great Expectations secured £2m, while projects such as Qwerty Films sci-fi thriller Last Days On Mars and Sally Potter”s new London-set sixties project Bomb got around £1m each. Neal Street, currently having a TV hit with BBC1”s Call The Midwife, was given £700,000 for Nick Murphy”s Blood. There were also numerous sub-£100,000 awards.

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