As the U.K.’s film and TV industry looks to restart, a crucial 10-day consultation period is underway on production guidelines that are now circulating across the industry. (Excerpts of the guidelines are published below.) More than six weeks on from the March 23 lockdown, industry figures such as John McVay, head of producers’ trade body Pact, warns that restarting business “is not like switching a factory back on.” “A lot of people are saying, ‘You should just do what Denmark or other countries did,’ (but) every country is different.
Just because Denmark does it one way, it doesn’t mean it will work here,” McVay tells Variety. The route to get cameras rolling again has required a complex network of British Film Institute-led working
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