Film-makers in Wales now benefit from our home-grown talent
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- Film-makers in Wales now benefit from our home-grown talent
- China´s home-grown films booming in 2008
- Mirrors on DVD/Blu-ray Ghost in Shell Innocence on Blu-ray plus …
Film-makers in Wales now benefit from our home-grown talent
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As an art form it has passed its centenary and in the 21st century it is establishing itself as a multi-billion-pound driver of businesses as diverse as design fashion games and entertainment. Indeed it is a crucial driver of attitudes values and ideas. The changes that are happening to broadcasting and other forms of delivery of audio visual material increase the importance of multi-financed film. Film has an essential part to play in provoking creativity entrepreneurial activity and freedom of thought and imagination. It is therefore at the cutting edge culturally and commercially of any nation with ambition to play its part on the world stage. During our second year we saw development and consolidation in the face of a tightening economic situation. However led by chief executive Pauline Burt the Film Agency for Wales has worked hard to retain the level of support that we give to the film-making sector education and exhibition.
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China´s home-grown films booming in 2008
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com 01-11-2009 10:03China’s domestic film box office grossed over four billion yuan last year. The increasing diversity of film genres and improved maturity made 2008 the sixth straight year that home-grown productions earned more than foreign movies.
Mirrors on DVD/Blu-ray Ghost in Shell Innocence on Blu-ray plus …
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