Screen Gathering; Irons There
by Entertainment Editor, The Evening Standard (London)
October 15, 2000
AN END of era feel about the party thrown by British Screen over the weekend, as the great and the good of the film world turned out at Legends in Mayfair. Jeremy Irons, Hugh Hudson and Craig Ferguson were among the guests.
"It's sad we had to go but apparently necessary," Simon Perry, the producer of 1984 and White Mischief who has been at the helm for some 10 years, told the Londoner.
"Having helped develop and finance 180 amazing and eclectic films we have been swallowed up by New Labour's Film Council. I'm moving on and will be setting up a training centre for producers in Venice.
"I agree wholeheartedly with Stephen Frears's view that teaching is one of the last heroic professions and we should pass on our knowledge. I will still be doing some producing, however."