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Former Amazon Europe Boss Georgia Brown Says “Throwing Money” At “Workforce Crisis” In UK Film & TV Will “Exacerbate The Problem”


Former Amazon Europe Boss Georgia Brown and the BFI's Sara Whybrew talked skills at the CMS Committee's Film & High-End TV Inquiry.

Raja is currently working on a film in Urdu set in pre-colonial India and she said she is struggling without training or development funding, having directed a number of episodes of double-BAFTA-winning Top Boy Season 3. Speaking to the same inquiry in January, Bend it Like Beckham auteur Gurinder Chadha spoke of the funding challenges pertaining to her new Christmas movie about an Indian Scrooge. The UK’s British Film & High-End TV Inquiry has heard from a number of big names in the biz including Chadha, Slow Horses’ James Hawes and the CEOs of Vue and Studiocanal.

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