I’ve just looked up the directors and producers on Facebook – and none is connected to each other. So it may do – but on the other hand it may indicate assiduous work by us to find those opportunities – or that UKFC funds were effectively spread to enable as many films to be made as possible. A proper analysis would be needed to confirm any of these hypotheses.

A key point here – the context being that this is personal experience rather than analysis – is that, for us, Screen South reduced the barriers to entering the film industry.