Over the past decade, the Screen Industries research group has received several major grants to investigate various aspects of the film and television industries in the UK and internationally.
The Documentary Film Council
The Documentary Film Council (DFC) is a new national body for UK documentary film. Funded by the AHRC and co-created by UWE Bristol researchers and stakeholders across the documentary sector…
Regional Screen Production in Europe: Encouraging Diversity, Sustainability and Plurality of Perspectives
This faculty-funded research project led by Amy Genders as Principal Investigator and Andrew Spicer as Co-investigator explores the growing political, economic and cultural interest – and an increasing body of…
Go West! Bristol’s Film and TV Industries
Funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund, ‘Bristol Film & TV Industries’ analysed the size, shape and characteristics of the film and television industries in the Bristol region. This was…
Bristol: The ‘Green Hollywood’
The primary aim of this research project is to write up a cultural history of natural history filmmaking, The Green Hollywood, analysing why Bristol has become the global production centre…
UK Feature Docs
The UK Feature Docs project was a three-year AHRC-funded study of the feature-length documentary film industry in the UK. Primarily a work of cultural history, the project explored how and…
The impact of Channel 4’s move to Bristol
Funded by the Bristol + Bath Creative R+D, and supported by Bristol City Council, this research project explores the impact of Channel 4’s move to the Bristol region, its context…
Freelance labour in Bristol’s film and television industries
The purpose of this report is to complement current statistical data on freelance labour by providing a detailed, qualitative portrait of how freelancers negotiate precarious careers within specific regional contexts…
Understanding Watershed: a flagship UK independent cinema
This project was a study of the genesis and development of Watershed, the Bristol’s leading independent cinema and the South West’s Film Hub Lead Organisation of the BFI’s Film Audience…
SiFTI: Success in the Film & Television Industries
What characterizes the production and marketing processes behind films and television programmes that can be described as successful in regard to critical acclaim or box-office results, or both? What innovative…
