institutional research

BFI

British Film Institute

The British film institute is a British production company that charitably encourages film and television making to preserve the British film industry.
The BFI holds the world's largest film archive. It was started in 1935 and was first called the national film archive and presently holds over 50,000 fiction films and 100,000 non fiction films. along with this there is over 625,000 television programmes and, although most of the films and productions are British, the film archive also holds many international titles.

Income
The income for the BFI comes from three main places. the largest of these three would be from the department for culture, media and sport which amounted to in ,2012, around £ 20 million. The secound largest funding source would be from comercial activity like selling tickets at their cinema in southbank, London. This grossed a £ 5 million in 2005. Thirdly, they are givien several differnt grants y many sources including The national lottery.

The films that have been funded by BFI.

"Our mission at the Film Fund is four-fold: supporting distinctive emerging filmmakers; films of cultural significance; projects that takes risks in form and content; and those that recognise the quality of difference." - Director of the film funds at the BFI, Ben Roberts. 

The Girl with all the gifts. ($2.3 million) 
Director: Colm McCarthy 
Writer: Mike Carey 

Swallows and Amazons ( $3.9 million) 
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
Writer (screenplay): Andrea Gibb
Producer: Nick Barton, Nick O’Hagan, Joe Oppenheim

Old Boys
Director: Toby MacDonald
Writer(s): Luke Ponte, Freddy Syborn
Producer: Luke Morris

This is clearly the strongest and most popular film instiute that would fund a short film like mine.