Head of Film4 Tessa Ross receives CBE
06 January 2010
The big news for us this week is that our very own Tessa Ross, Controller of Film4 and Drama, has been awarded a CBE for her contribution to British Film.
In her time at the helm of Film4, Ross has overseen some of the UK's most critically acclaimed films of recent years, including the Last King of Scotland, This is England and In Bruges. She said her CBE was "a huge encouragement to do more".
"I'm really honoured to have been recognised in this way - it's a huge encouragement to do more and to do better, though of course it's always the work, and the people that make it, that I feel deserve the real praise," she said.
"And it's only where public service values are upheld - at Channel 4 and at Film4 - that the work can be fought for above all else. I always feel exceptionally lucky to collaborate with people that I admire, to help to create films and programmes that I love, and all for a public service institution that I believe in so wholeheartedly."
Source: Guardian