The UK Film Council has published its new funding and policy priorities from April 2007-March 2010.

"In an age of global communication, film has become one of the most potent means through which nations and communities project their values and identities and learn about one another. Moving image technologies have become a key factor in everyday living. They are big business. More than that, an ability to understand and use digital technology has become as essential for citizens of the 21st century as literacy was in the 19th and 20th. The pace, scale and implications of this change are momentous. Established in 2000, the UK Film Council was charged with building a more successful and competitive British film industry and with promoting a dynamic film culture. It has always tried to create practical synergies between these two agendas, one commercial, the other cultural, and to realise the full public value of film as a medium for the representation and interpretation of identity, values and learning – as well as entertainment."

The document Film in the Digital Age includes the creation of five new funding priorities, in addition to the current funding priorities, which seeks to boost public access to film through film festivals and increase knowledge of the UK's rich film heritage.

See strategy report at http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/usr/ukfcdownloads/205/FilmInTheDigitalAge.pdf