Premiere Fund
The Premiere Fund aims to invest in talented filmmakers and in commercial films with wide audience appeal in the UK and worldwide.
A key objective of the Premiere Fund is to facilitate, through specific film investments, a greater breadth of experience and expertise across the UK film industry, and in that way to play a role in assisting the development of UK film businesses capable of long-term growth. The Premiere Fund is also able to offer funding for audience testing and enhancement awards.
The Premiere Fund is looking for projects across the full range of budgets and genres. As the more mainstream production fund, the Premiere Fund tends to invest in bigger-budget projects and films from established filmmakers. However, the Premiere Fund has backed several first-time filmmakers and films with budgets under £1.5 million. In the digital age, the Premiere Fund is exploring new methods of distribution and new exhibition platforms. At the same time, the Premiere Fund is keen to help promote and preserve the cinema-going experience.
Recent investments include Julian Jarrold's Brideshead Revisited, Gabor Csupo's The Secret of Moonacre, Barnaby Thompson and Oliver Parker's St. Trinian's, Paul Andrew Williams' The Cottage, Bob Weide's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and Faintheart directed by Vito Rocco as winner of the MySpace MyMovie MashUp competition.
The annual budget of the Premiere Fund is £8 million a year and on average the Premiere Fund invests in 8-9 films per annum.
