In a rare public speaking engagement, BBC Films director Rose Garnett took to the stage at the Zurich Film Festival yesterday (September 28) to discuss how the organization has changed under her te…
. Under Garnett’s tenure the funder — long seen as a more conservative operation than fellow UK broadcaster Film4 — has started to move in a bolder direction.
“Myself and the team also ask why a film deserves licence fee payers’ money. If we can answer that question, then we do it. If we can’t answer it, particularly if the film is going to be made somewhere else, then you just celebrate the fact that the work is being made.” “PSBs are important because of our relationship to risk. We sort of have no skin in the game apart from enabling people and their work, we get good value for money but we don’t have to make a profit. That gives us an incredible freedom and permission [to help] filmmakers find their voice.”
Garnett has encountered some local criticism for backing the next film from American filmmaker Eliza Hittman,, because the feature had no pre-existing British connection. The BBC executive defended the decision. “We like being a stepping stone for European directors to make their first English-language films. We’ve done [Austrian filmmaker] Jessica Hausner’sBBC Films employees only 15 people, out of 22,000 total employees at the broadcaster. The division’s budget of $13.5m is less than other public funding bodies in the UK and abroad but Garnett explained that tight parameters can be turned into positives.
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