Critical Research: Britishness of Film Sources

Upon starting my research, I came upon evidence of a British films made by a South African director, since this was vital to my research into british film, I decided to add it. The film was found on the BBC site but then I went on to wikipedia.com to find more information about the director:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Michell

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/431477.stm

The above link leads to information on the BBC news site about the British film industry and the laws passed to support it in 1999. 

I chose this source because it highlights why films are British are called so and how they are branded British. It is quite accurate in explaining the aspects that determine what British film entail. It is also shows the financial statistics and shows how much it is actually worth.

The next part of my research shows the real deal behind the british film industry and explores the issue of whether the government really does help to forward film.

The source for this is: 

http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-film-features-overview.htm

Here I found an overview by british film critic; Derek Malcolm called: Feature Films, An Overview.

This article was very informative and appropriate because it explained the state of directors and box offices through the UK.  It explained how many directors and producers had given up on account of their films not getting much exposure in cinemas and how financing films was harder than ever because of the government's intervention in the system.