DEFINING BRITISH FILM : 
Category A- film made with British money, personnel and resources 
Category B- Co funded with some foreign investment 
Category C- Mostly foreign investment 
Category D- Films made in the UK but funded by American companies 
Category E- American films with some British involvement
-Very few purely British films
THE CURRENT BOOM
-Crisis in 2005-6, investment in making films dropped. 
-Now producers are exempt from from certain tax payments.
-Theres are financial, political and institutional reasons why a film doesn't get made.
TELEVISION COMPANY CO-FUNDING : 
-Boom in 2006
-BBC and Channel 4 invested in film