Home-grown film production in these normally rain ‘n’ windswept isles is a perennially thorny topic, this controversy being entirely down to the fact that public money, most recently in the form of Lotto funds, is awarded to selected projects. Yesterday, David Cameron demanded this money be spent solely on ‘commercially viable’ productions in future, and Spectrecom’s own head honcho, Andrew Greener, was invited in by Sky News to give his verdict on this blueprint for supposed success.    

The PM was down at Pinewood Studios yesterday, weighing in on the debate about the direction the British film production business should be headed in following the axing of the UK Film Council back in summer 2010. That defunct body is being replaced as funding-awarder-in-chief by the British Film Institute, while Cameron’s comments about the privileging of commercial appeal comes ahead of the publication next week of an industry-wide review by former Labour Culture Secretary, Lord Smith. 

So, wise ol… er, still-young head that he is, our very own Andrew Greener was duly summoned to Sky’s Westminster studios to give his opinion on the Cameron plan, and an edited version of his interview can be seen about halfway down this webpage (yes, skip right on past Michael Winner), appearing as it does about a minute into the video entitled ‘PM David Cameron Visits Pinewood Studios’. And yes, those whizz kids at Sky News did indeed misspell our company name as ‘Spectreom’. Tsk, eh?

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