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ScreenSkills Chair Steps Down Former Endemol Shine boss Richard Johnston is stepping down from TV and film industry body ScreenSkills. Johnston will be replaced by Vice Chair Lisa Opie temporarily, while Kate Lyndon becomes interim Vice Chair. "It's been an absolute privilege to chair ScreenSkills…

EXCLUSIVE: ScreenSkills has backed a course to discover the next generation of disabled directors, writers and producers. The UK training body has joined forces with film training and production specialist 104 Films on the course, which kicks off today. The participants will have a week of…

A plan has been laid out to close the “burgeoning disconnect” between the UK’s physical production workforce and demand for skills. The Screen Sectors Skills Task Force, chaired by former Amazon Studios Head of European Originals Georgia Brown and backed by everyone from Netflix to the BBC, has…

An additional £104M ($127M) and 20,000 full-time jobs will need to be injected into the UK’s film and high-end TV (HETV) sectors over the next three years for the industry to keep up with demand for projects, according to the BFI. The body published its long-awaited skills review today, with the key recommendation…

The UK’s film and high-end TV could be worth nearly £7.7B ($9.4B) by 2025 but training enough crew to achieve that would cost around £300M ($368M), according to a study by British industry body ScreenSkills. The value of the production sector is expected to leap from the current £5.64B to anywhere between £7.07B and…

UK training body ScreenSkills is actioning one of the key recommendations from Jack Thorne’s report into disability in TV by funding the training of Accessibility Co-ordinators. Similar to Intimacy and Covid Co-ordinators, the role will support TV productions in hiring and working with disabled talent and crew and…

ScreenSkills Invests £10M In UK High-End TV The ScreenSkills High-end TV Skills Fund is to invest £10.1M ($13.2M) of industry contributions from UK producers, broadcaster in-house productions and inward investors in the coming year to meet training needs within the booming sector. The 2022-23 investment reps a notable…

Amazon Prime Video has pledged £10M ($13.3M) on UK training initiatives over the next three years to help with the local skills pipeline. The streamer has joined with the UK’s National Film & Television School (NFTS) to fund 75 places for budding craft and technical workers on a course entitled Prime Video…

Nearly three-quarters of disabled people working in UK animation believe that the sector is discriminating against them, according to a first-of-its-kind report from industry training body ScreenSkills. The Accessibility in Animation report, which paints a “bleak picture,” also found the majority of disabled people…

The UK TV skills crisis has been laid bare by research from ScreenSkills showing the vast majority of production companies struggling immensely to find key roles such as Production Manager and Production Co-ordinator on non-scripted shows. ScreenSkills described a “squeezed middle” of experienced crew after more than…

EXCLUSIVE: A former Skins star, a Criminal Defense Solicitor and a TV writer have been selected for training body ScreenSkills  third New Writers Programme delivered by The Responder producer Dancing Ledge Productions. Larissa Hope, Abigail Rolling and Jess Jackson will be paired with New Girl writer Camilla…