A Vital Step For The Technology Sector

At Its Best, Cinema Does Retain A Remarkable Ability To Speak To People Of Every Age, From Every Background, And In Ways That Almost Any Other Art Form In Popular Culture Struggles To Compete With.

I Absolutely Refuse To Accept The Fact That Any Country In The World Goes Into A Kind Of Film-making Crisis. What Happens Is They Lose Confidence, They Lose Focus And The Young Film-makers Of Any Particular Generation Can Very Easily Get Lost In That Mix. It's Happened In Italy, Happened In France, Happened In The U.k. During My Lifetime.

As Intelligent And Responsible Filmmakers, Working In A Free Society, We Have A Duty To Ensure That Our Chosen Medium Is A Force For Good. Especially In This Ever-more Complex And Difficult World.

Film And The Other Creative Industries Are Being Transformed By Digital Technologies.

In The U.k., The History Of Regulation, Certainly Regulation Of The Media, Is One In Which, Time And Again, Successive Governments Lacked The 'bottle' To Enforce The Powers That Were Available To Them.