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crisis, and the BFI worked quickly to establish initiatives to provide emergency funding for displaced workers, examine the impact of COVID-19 on all facets of the business, and work with government to forge a path forward.SiriusXM CEO Wants Howard Stern 'For As Long As Howard Wants To Work' As The Host's Contract Approaches End
One of the BFI’s first priorities was to reconvene a Screen Sector Taskforce, which was born out of a model that was initially put together for Brexit planning. The Taskforce has doubled in size in terms of membership and participation as compared against the Brexit version, and every member has been engaged in trying to solve the myriad issues the pandemic has presented within our industry.
The BFI has partnered with the Film and TV Charity to establish a relief fund, and that has given us a good sense of the scale of the need. We think that there are about 20,000 freelancers who are still not eligible under the existing programs, across the film and television industries.
And regardless of how this crisis might have changed people’s relationship with their TV sets and streaming platforms, we still want to ensure we get people back into theaters. We have seen, on our own platform BFI Player, how people are yearning for cinema. Subscriptions have multiplied several fold, and activity within subscriptions is at an all-time high. Independent cinema should absolutely be capitalizing on that increased appetite now.
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