Three Tables receive support from Global Screen Fund
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By Nico Franks, 4 March 2022
UK producers Quiddity Films, Magic Light Pictures and Three Tables Productions have received support to grow their international business from the UK’s Global Screen Fund.
Financed through the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), the three companies have received a share of the £502,882 (US$669,298) that has been allocated through the £7m fund’s International Distribution and International Business Development strands.
Quiddity Films will put the funding towards staffing and development of a TV slate with international sales potential, following the company’s successful film track record with titles such as I Am Not a Witch, Supernova and Make Up.
Magic Light Pictures, meanwhile, has been supported to increase brand awareness of The Gruffalo in Germany, via increased marketing, licensing and distribution, with a focus on social media.
The company, whose animated specials have become a centrepiece of BBC1’s Christmas Day schedule since 2009, produces and distributes family entertainment and is best known for growing and developing The Gruffalo franchise.
Three Tables Productions will put the funding towards staffing and content development to further build out the company’s drama slate with international sales potential.
Three Tables Productions has a slate of 18 scripted projects in development and is working with partners in the US, Korea, Australia, Belgium and Germany.
The International Distribution strand, meanwhile, is supporting a host of upcoming featuring films, including End to End, a documentary that follows British musician George Ezra as he travels the country discovering more about British musical tradition.
Since its launch as a pilot scheme in April 2021, the UK Global Screen Fund has now made 66 awards totalling almost £5m across its three funding strands.
It aims to stimulate new international partnerships and boost coproduction, distribution and development opportunities to drive growth and export. It was set up to partly replace the funding UK producers accessed from Creative Europe Media prior to Brexit.
Earlier this month, the DCMS announced a further investment of £21m over three years (2022-25) into the UK Global Screen Fund, which is administered by the BFI.