Premiere Fund 

The Premiere Fund aims to invest in talented filmmakers and in commercial films with wide audience appeal in the UK and worldwide. The Premiere Fund has two specific criteria related to diversity:

• Training and education: The UK Film Council supports ways of trying to improve the
  profile of the industry’s workforce so that it becomes more inclusive of the diversity of
  contemporary UK society. In this regard, you will be required to comply with obligations
  relating to interns and trainees as requested by UK Film Council.
• Access for people with sensory impairments: Successful applicants will at a minimum need to ensure that any agreement for distribution of their film in the UK provides for distribution of a subtitled film print in UK cinemas and the soft-subtitling equivalent where cinemas are able to provide this facility; arrangements for screenings of their film using audio-description where cinemas can provide this facility; and inclusion of both a subtitled track and an audio-described track on any DVD release. The budget for the film must include the costs of producing certain delivery materials (such as subtitled files) that can be loaned to the distributor to fulfil this obligation.