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Screen Industries Summit for Scotland
03/11/2003
Conference delegates in Glasgow were today challenged to
help shape the future of Scotland's screen industries.
Speaking at the Screen Industries Summit for Scotland
Conference, Deputy Enterprise Minister Lewis Macdonald
stressed the importance of the sector to Scotland's
economy.
The event was organised to allow key industry
stakeholders to explore the findings of the first
wide-ranging audit of the screen industries in Scotland.
Published in July, the audit covers television, film,
corporate and commercial production, radio, new media and
animation.
Mr Macdonald said:
"The screen industries in Scotland are important to the
Executive's vision of a confident, creative and successful
Scotland.
"The sector provides quality jobs using high-level
craft, technical and creative skills. It is dynamic,
competitive and innovative and has a global reputation for
excellence.
"Our 'Partnership Agreement for a Better Scotland' is
very clear in its support for the development of Scotland
as a production centre for film, TV and new media, as a
location for film-making; and for the international
promotion of Scottish films and TV programmes.
"The programme for today's Screen Industries Summit For
Scotland asks all the big questions about the economic
growth of the sector in Scotland; its international
profile; its Scottish identity; the range and diversity of
its cultural content, and its structural conditions.
"Ministers are keenly interested in the industries'
responses to the challenges identified in the Audit. It is
these which will help to shape the future for the screen
industries in Scotland."
Deputy Minister for Enterprise was today speaking at the
Screen Industries Summit for Scotland Conference at the
Radisson Sas Hotel, Glasgow.
A consortium comprised of the Scottish Executive, the
Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT),
Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Screen and Highlands and
Islands Enterprise published the first audit of the screen
industries in Scotland in July 2003.
It followed on from the Scottish Executive Review of
Scottish Screen and was commissioned to give a view of the
strengths and weaknesses of the sector in Scotland.
The audit is an industrial evaluation of the screen
industries and reviews the period from 1997 to 2001. It
provides hard data which will inform the growth and
expansion policies and strategies for the partners and
other industry bodies. It also means that for the first
time the progress of the sector can be monitored and
measured.