The British government announced today it plans to shutter the UK Film Council, the organization which has overseen the distribution of federal lottery funds to more than 900 films and other related enterprises since its inception in 2000. UK culture minister Jeremy Hunt announced the consolidation of the council along with that of several other arts offices. The government is still expected to underwrite portions of indie budgets, though UKFC critics have long maintained the selection process is rigged toward insiders and old boys, or old chaps, or old lads, or whatever you want to call them. Developing... [
