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Northern Ireland Screen returns 22 million to local economy in 2009/10
Northern Ireland Screen’s latest annual report for the year 2009-2010 is published at the same time as cameras start to roll in Belfast on HBO’s Game of Thrones, a television series which is said to be one of the largest ever to shoot in Europe. The report encapsulates the agency’s achievements, cultural highlights and educational successes of the past 12 months.
Bucking the recession, in the past year Northern Ireland Screen’s main production investment fund (financed by Invest NI and part funded by the European Regional Development Fund) returned £22 million to the local economy at a ratio of 5.5:1, on an investment of £3.9 million. Your Highness, a major feature film from Universal Pictures, which shot in the Paint Hall and various other locations around Northern Ireland brought in £11.78 million of this.
Northern Ireland Screen’s Education Department, Irish Language Broadcast Fund and the exhibition sector all performed strongly over the past year.
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