Chris Filip is the Fund Manager for the International Business Development Fund of the UK Global Screen Fund at the BFI, supporting UK screen content businesses across film, TV, animation and video games to develop their international activities.
With a background spanning both game development and industry support, Chris has helped deliver games business support programmes including Foundations for Games and Games Scale Up through Creative Enterprise at Creative England. He also contributed to Payload Studios’ Tentacle Zone incubator programme supporting underrepresented game studio founders, and co-founded Game Anglia, a not-for-profit supporting games industry growth in the East of England.
Earlier in his career, Chris worked as a Game Designer for Ubisoft and other game companies as well as Product Manager for games and technology companies. He is a BAFTA Games member and juror and was selected for The Game Awards Future Class 2023.