feeling listless

Film The Guardian published an entire section yesterday dedicated to the state of the British Film Industry. Article after article make a simple point -- there are too many small films being made with very little hope of distribution, and that it makes more sense for first time directors to be cutting their teeth in single TV dramas, whilst established directors can used the money saved together to create intelligent bigger budget films suitable for the mass market. In other words, 'Shakespeare in Love' or that Harry Potter thing paid for with our own money so that the rewards are filter back into our own production system and not straight to Hollywood.