{"id":3973,"date":"2020-08-28T10:27:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T09:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2020-08-28T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T09:28:07","slug":"mattias-frey-provides-expert-comment-on-film-and-tv-production-restart-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/08\/28\/mattias-frey-provides-expert-comment-on-film-and-tv-production-restart-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattias Frey provides expert comment on Film and TV Production Restart Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/2130\/frey-mattias\">Professor Mattias Frey<\/a>, Head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/subjects\/film\">Film<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/subjects\/media-studies\">Media<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\">School of Arts<\/a>, has provided an expert comment in response to the UK Government&#8217;s Film and TV Production Restart Scheme. The scheme will provide a \u00a3500m boost to the UK Film and TV industries following disruption caused by COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, Mattias discusses how the pandemic has affected the Film and TV industry; a notoriously risky sector. He explains: \u2018the GAD [Government Actuary\u2019s Department] Film and TV Production Restart Scheme will provide a welcome boost to the currently fragile state of audiovisual production. This lifeline will not only help the UK\u2019s world-leading creative production sector to stay afloat, it will also support the many jobs in local economies, from catering to tourism, that depend on the industry.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The full piece is available to read on Kent&#8217;s News Centre website, here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/culture\/26397\/expert-comment-film-and-tv-production-restart-scheme-provides-vital-support\">www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/culture\/26397\/expert-comment-film-and-tv-production-restart-scheme-provides-vital-support<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Mattias Frey, Head of Film and Media in the School of Arts, has provided an expert comment in response to the UK Government&#8217;s Film &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/08\/28\/mattias-frey-provides-expert-comment-on-film-and-tv-production-restart-scheme\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167396,1123,168423,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3981,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions\/3981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}