Film, television and video games

Doc’n Roll Film Festival has launched Doc'n Roll TV, a pay-per-view video on demand platform with a wide-range of music documentaries. This follows the postponed UK regional tour set to begin on 25 March 2020, and the festival's biggest-ever.

Watch the current selection of music documentaries here.

Like its big-screen big brother, Doc’n Roll TV’s mission is to show some love and respect to the ever-growing number of great music documentaries that the big platforms dismiss as too adventurous, or too niche.

Gecko is an award-winning and internationally-acclaimed physical theatre company based in Ipswich, Suffolk and led by Artistic Director Amit Lahav. 

King Lear focuses on the story of Cordelia, Lear’s youngest daughter who fails his test of love at the start of the play which results in fighting, uprising and ultimately tragedy. 

Five Films for Freedom brings distinctive voices from around the globe to screens wherever you are. The line-up of films, which showcases work by emerging filmmakers from across the globe, has been selected from BFI Flare's programme.

On Friday 27 March, to mark the world Theatre Day, The Royal Court will be releasing the filmed version of

The National Video Game Museum, the unique museum in Sheffield dedicated to video game culture, where you can normally play, explore and create videogames has created an online resource for children and families. Play The Museum At Home is a growing suite of online resources for people to use during the temporary closure includes worksheets, stories and lots more video game related activities to do at home.

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The BFI and The Film and TV Charity have partnered to create a new Covid-19 Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund to help support the creative community. More information on how to register soon (page will be updated once registrations are live).

With a £1m donation from Netflix, the fund will be administered by The Film and TV Charity with support from the BFI, and will provide emergency short-term relief to the thousands of active workers and freelancers who have been directly affected by the closure of productions across the UK.

The BBC has announced its intention to "keep arts alive in people's homes" through it's regular programming and in collaboration and consultation with cultural organisations and funding bodies like Arts Council England. The activity, named Culture In Quarantine, will use BBC's high-profile platforms including television, radio and online.

Our filmmakers, actors and other creative people in the film industry are being rewarded with award nominations and wins as the 2020 awards season comes to a close.

Current British winners and nominees include the major awards ceremonies below. This page will be updated with winners as they are announced.

The Welsh government has launched Creative Wales in a bid to further drive its creative industries sector.

With an annual turnover of £2.2billion and employing 56,000 people, Wales's creative industries is one of the contry's fastest-growing sectors (just like the UK as a whole). Creative Wales will focus on three key sectors to start with including film and TV, digital and gaming, and music.