Anna Mansi
As Head of Certification, Anna works closely with key stakeholders in government and across the Creative Sector industries to provide advice and guidance on the application processes for all of the cultural tests, co-production treaties and policies relating to all of the tax reliefs including film, High-end, Animation Television, Children's Television and Video Games. She has an extensive knowledge of all the Creative Sector tax reliefs, and has been instrumental in assisting government with the structure of new cultural requirements as each of the new creative sector reliefs has been introduced. Anna has also led BFI's responses to Government consultations on the new reliefs and HMT's VFX consultation. Anna regularly speaks on panels at conferences and events to promote the tax reliefs such as the Children's Media Conference, Glasgow Film Festival, Develop and many others. In addition Anna has organised BFI led seminars and events for the Animation, Video games and Children's Television Sectors.
Anna has extensive experience in working with the UK's tax regime and state aid policy for the creative sectors having previously worked within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the UK Film Council which she joined in April 2007 and has played an instrumental role in the introduction of the creative sector tax reliefs.
Anna was also involved with devising the BFI's Diversity Standards which apply to lottery funded projects supported by the BFI and are assessed by the BFI Certification Unit and she provides secretariat support for the BFI Diversity Steering Group. She is a member of the Production Guild of Great Britain and Women in Film & TV.
