Germany and the UK have taken different approaches to financially supporting homegrown talent in the film industry, but both aim to bolster domestic production of new movies. Henrik Armah and Ben Wilkinson weigh up the differences between the two schemes
At the start of last year, both the German and the UK governments set up new schemes aiming to support their domestic film industries. Although the two schemes have some similarities, they have initially produced markedly different effects, with Germany undergoing something of a boom while the UK experienced a relatively sluggish 2007. Nonetheless, it is still early days and it remains to be seen if the schemes can achieve their long term goals.
