About the BFI

The BFI is the UK's lead film organisation.

In its mission to achieve a creative and prosperous film culture and industry base, the BFI drives creative, economic, and cultural success through a linked portfolio of activities.

Its diverse public programme presents over a thousand films a year across BFI Southbank, BFI IMAX and the BFI London film festivals. As the biggest distributor of cultural cinema in the UK, it supplies film to over 600 venues across the whole of the UK, and over 2,000 hours of material are available for free online. The BFI cares for the world’s most significant film and television collections in the BFI National Archive, its vibrant DVD label releases around 50 titles a year, and its publications include Sight & Sound magazine.

The BFI works through key partnerships. As the Lottery distributor for film, the BFI provides funding for film development, production, distribution and training; and in education through Skillset and First Light. It also has strategic partnerships for film across the devolved nations and funding in the English regions; responsibility for UK film certification, which is the gateway to the UK film tax credit; and MEDIA Desk UK. In supporting Film London and the British Film Commission, the BFI also takes on promoting British film and talent internationally.