British low budget films & institutions

The United Kingdom has had a large impact on modern cinema and has one the most respected film industries in the world. Despite a history of successful productions, the industry is characterised by an ongoing debate about its identity (including economic and cultural issues) and the influences of American and European cinema, although it is fair to say a brief 'golden age' was enjoyed in the 1940s from the studios of J. Arthur Rank and Alexander Korda. The British film industry has produced some of the greatest actors, directors and motion pictures of all time including Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Powell and Pressburger, David Lean, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Michael Caine and Anthony Hopkins. ((Wiki))

* Sweet Sixteen - Ken Loach
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313670/

* Long time dead - Marcus Adams ( British low budget horror ) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251806/

The two above are both from 2001

Eran Creevy's low-budget British hit Shifty
Film from Between The Eyes about youth in drug-ridden Essex made under BBC Microwave scheme programme for young directors

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6067130.ece

The BBC Microwave scheme programme dictates that only £100,000 can be spent on the film. With this amount of money you are able to

* Produce one episode of top gear

* Make the first 10 minutes of casualty

* Produce the first second of the guniess domino advert

Or, if you were really clever, you could make Shifty, a gripping, stylish, 90-minute British film about love and friendship in the drug-ridden low-rises of Essex.

The film was shot in 18 days after extentive "story boarding" and favours in order to gain top marks for a "cheap thing"

Institutions