new entrant training scheme, Grierson DocLab is back!
A great opportunity for new entrants.
National Youth Film Academy Awards Ceremony
Once again, the NYFA has found a way to make money but fail to deliver.
INTERESTED in a career in Broadcast engineering?
A very useful resource from ScreenSkills, to show you what jobs there are and how you get them.
Free e-learning: introduction to working in the screen industries.
Some free training for new entrants to the industry, from ScreenSkills.
It’s behind the scenes week - take part!
An event for all TV and Film Freelancers to take part in.
Are you struggling financially?
If so the Film + TV Charity could help you with a one-off grant.
Tough times for TV writers.
80% of writers in the screen industry are freelancers and the cost of living crisis is hitting them hard.
Lucy Horsman. Concept Media Academy.
A crafty attempt to prise some money out of a job applicant. It’s pretty poor practice for anyone to try to extract money from a young, inexperienced (and likely broke) keen industry entrant when all they are trying to do is get a job in their career of choice.
Maia Films. Kennington Film Studios. Fortemus Films.
Avoid this company. The individual behind Maia Films/Kennington Film Studios/Fortemus Films (Andrew Greener) has a longstanding and very poor record for failing to pay freelancers who work for his companies on time, and sometimes at all.
TVCrewFinder – another site to avoid.
It’s not acceptable to charge freelancers for the right to apply for jobs. We’ve asked the company how this fits in with the regulations that forbid any company from charging job seekers for work finding services…
John Pavlakos – AVOID.
Every time this individual sets up a company or production, he leaves a trail of unpaid people behind, and it is still happening. WARNING: there is a strong chance you will not be paid if you work for or supply kit to this individual.
Are you neurodivergent and working in the media?
The Neurodiverse Media Community aims to connect, engage and support anyone with a diagnosis of (or experiencing) autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia or any other neurological condition who works in the media.
Looking for a job at one of the UK’s biggest production companies?
A great opportunity to hear about jobs at Fremantle as soon as they are posted.
Production Hive – leeching off unwary freelancers.
Sites that charge freelancers are doing little more than sucking money out of the pockets of industry workers while providing precisely zero value along the way, given that almost all the jobs they advertise are also available on free-to-use social media sites.
Too much work, not enough trained workers.
That’s the conclusion Screenskills have come to in their latest report on the state of employment in our industry, which reveals there are acute shortages of suitably skilled workers in various unscripted TV roles.
Two articles all industry freelancers should read…
Disillusioned freelancers and the best places to work.
Locked Down and Locked Out – the experience of working mothers in TV production.
At the best of times, balancing motherhood and a career in TV is incredibly tough. Every year many find that it is simply too hard to juggle the competing demands leading large numbers to drop out every year.
Leopard Pictures and the missing holiday pay.
Amanda Goddard gets holiday pay from her employer Argonon - so why aren’t freelancers getting it, as per their legal entitlement?
Man Vs Bee and the missing holiday pay.
Workers don’t get their legally entitled holiday pay on a Netflix production.