Awards in the sub-million range include Mat Whitecross’ Spike Island (£900,000), James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer (£750,000), Regan Hall’s Fast Girls (£630,000) with Eran Creevy’s Welcome To The Punch and Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini's Streetdance 2 3D awarded £500,000 each, amongst many other awards.

BFI CEO Amanda Nevill said, “We’re delighted to be part of such a wide range of dynamic new British films. One of the most exciting things about the BFI’s Film Fund is that we can support talented new filmmakers making their first features, and help some of the UK’s most well known and respected directors create ambitious, large-scale films. This remarkable breadth of inspiring films offers such an exciting proposition for audiences, and this is just the beginning.”

The Fund has also invested over £2.3m in the development of 99 film projects, including Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno And The Limehouse Golem, currently being adapted for the screen by Jane Goldman with Number 9 Films, and the latest project from Michael Powell award-winning director, Nick Whitfield, co-written with Rachel Tunnard, The Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time, which is being developed with Forward Films.