Film Studies

FM2 British Screen Advisory Council

BSAC is a unique, independent industry funded, advisory body to government and policy makers at national and European level. Its membership embraces senior management from every sector of the audiovisual industry. The Council acts as a proactive body, identifying key issues of importance to the industry, in addition to responding to Government consultations.

http://www.bsac.uk.com/

FM2 Keep-up-to date with film industry news

Cue Entertainment is the UK home entertainment industry’s main trade magazine. It is published at the beginning of every month in print and daily on the web at www.cueentertainment.com where it receives between 100,000 to 120,000 hits a month. It features the latest news and charts on the market as well as features plus recruitment opportunities and price checking guides. It issues a weekly digital newsletter (1,400 readers) delivered straight to your email inbox as well as essential news flashes as and when news breaks. Circulation (publisher’s statement) is 7,100 copies supplied to all the major home entertainment retailers, rental outlets, wholesalers, distributors and duplicators.

http://www.screendaily.com Online version of the print magazine. Film industry news, movie reviews, feature articles, festival and awards coverage, production news, and special reports.

FM2 DVD - Trends relating to DVD and useful sites

Is DVD dying out? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1270704/DVD-sales-decline-likely-die-internet-Digiboxes-over.html#axzz2Klu1wC00
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/03/film-industry-turmoil-as-dvd-sales-drop
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2013419/Blow-Hollywood-DVD-sales-fall-25-years-digital-download-growth-slows-cinema-goers-3D-movie-dwindles.html#axzz2Klunj9E7
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16416042

http://www.officialcharts.com/
Formerly Chart Information Network (CIN), was formed in 1998 and is a joint venture between BPI (British Phonographic Industry) and ERA (Entertainment Retailers Association, formerly known as BARD). The Official Charts Company is responsible for the commissioning, marketing, distribution and management of the UK's official music and video charts.

http://www.videostandards.org.uk/VSC/
Set up in 1989 as a non-profit-making body, to develop and oversee a code of practice and rules to promote high standards within the video industry. It now also embraces computer and video games. VSC has a complaints board and investigates alleged breaches of the rules.

http://www.ivf-video.org/index.php?category/Home
The IVF provides international representation for 14 national video associations and their members, publishers and distributors of pre-recorded video works. In cooperation with its member associations, the IVF lobbies international, EU and national legislative authorities.

FM2 Film Piracy - useful sites

http://www.allianceforip.co.uk/
Alliance for Intellectual Property
A group of concerned industries joined forces under the Alliance in 1999 to provide a single voice in the battle to combat counterfeiting and piracy. The members include the Anti-Counterfeiting Group, British Brands Group, Business Software Alliance, Anti Copying in Design, BARD, British Phonographic Industry, BVA, Copyright Licencing Agency, European Leisure Software Publishers Association, FACT, FAST (The Federation Against Software Theft) and Newspaper Licensing Agency.

http://www.fact-uk.org.u/k
The Federation Against Copyright Theft
FACT is the trade body committed to protecting the interests of the audio-visual industry in the fight against piracy and the increasing threat from online copyright theft. FACT works closely with Police services, Trading Standards, HM Revenue & Customs and most recently with the Department for Work and Pensions. FACT has a close association with other enforcement bodies such as the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA). FACT also has an important role in ensuring that the government and public understand the threat to the UK’s film, video and television industry and to the community at large from the growing threat of DVD and online piracy.

http://www.copyrightaware.co.uk/
The Industry Trust
The Industry Trust for Intellectual Property Awareness was established in 2004 to tackle the growing issue of film and TV copyright theft in the UK. Today it represents a wide range of companies from the British film and TV industry, including home entertainment, theatrical film distributors, DVD retail and rental companies and a variety of industry bodies and associated companies active in the sector.

FM2 - UK Film Distributors' Association

http://www.launchingfilms.com/
Film Distributors' Association
Film Distributors' Association Ltd. (FDA) is the trade body for theatrical film distributors in the UK – the companies that release films for UK cinema audiences. Originally established in London in 1915, FDA liaises and works with many individuals, companies and organisations. FDA's Council, or board, comprising a senior representative of each member company, normally meets six times a year and considers only matters of generic interest to film distributors.

http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/consultation_responses/FPR_FDA.pdf

FM2 Film Exhibition -The Cinema Exhibitors' Association

http://www.cinemauk.org.uk/

Cinema Exhibitors' Association Ltd
The CEA represents the interests of well over 90 per cent of UK cinema operators by number and market share. The CEA membership includes single screen/owner managed sites as well as the largest circuit and multiplex operators. The CEA advocates on behalf of the UK cinema sector at international, national, regional and local level. This includes lobbying and working with Government at all levels, with other sectors of the film industry, particularly distribution, as well as working with others to promote the value of cinema to the wider public. In addition we provide advice and support to individual members on interpreting and adhering to legislation and regulation, and in dealing with day to day operational issues as appropriate.