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UK indie films will ‘die’ without fiscal aid, Ken Loach producer says

Rebecca O’Brien, award-winning collaborator on Loach's films, raised urgent warnings at a select committee inquiry into the industry

“And I think there’s both an immediacy to that as a possible solution but there’s also an opportunity to bring some confidence back into an industry which has really been battered in the last few years between the strikes, the effects of Covid and massive changes to the structure of the marketplace.” Yates, whose publicly funded company was behind recent releases including Rye Lane, One Life, and Aftersun, said the “amount of resources” needed to make films was increasing. Film4 director Ollie Madden also said that his company, involved in Oscar-nominated films Poor Things and The Zone of Interest, was making “fewer” movies than they would like.

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