Award-winning film director Anthony Minghella CBE to lead the British Film Institute Film Council.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-13 January 2003-UK Government: Award-winning film director Anthony Minghella CBE to lead the British Film Institute Film Council(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01102003 LONDON - Anthony Minghella CBE, the Oscar(r) and BAFTA-winning British filmmaker and writer was announced today as the new Chair of the British Film Institute (bfi).

The bfi is funded by the Film Council to carry out a range of activities supporting and developing film education and culture in the UK and Minghella takes up his new role at the bfi for a three-year term replacing Joan Bakewell CBE who has been Chair since 1999. Anthony Minghella says, "As a filmmaker and filmgoer I have long enjoyed the resources and facilities provided by the bfi and so I was...