Cross-Border Mentoring Scheme

The ScreenCraft Works Cross-Border Mentoring Scheme provides structured career development with an international outlook, to enrich careers in film, TV and online work.

We match under-represented production and post-production talent with international mentors, to share knowledge and experience, widen employment and peer-to-peer networks and bring new cultural perspectives to the mentoring groups’ local and international productions.

This is a virtual scheme to be as accessible and eco-friendly as possible.
It runs for nine months and is designed to be conducted alongside any work.
The common language is English.
Our mentoring scheme is based upon the ScreenSkills UK model.

The 2026 mentoring programme will run from April to December 2026. Applications for this programme are now closed.

If you are interested in being a mentor, please complete the mentor application form at any time, or contact us on info@screencraftworks.org

The scheme matches mentees with a volunteer mentor from a different country. Our mentees will be at any career stage, seeking to enter, return to or progress their careers.

Our mentors will have recent relevant industry experience. They will typically be one or two career stages ahead of their mentee or offer different experiences at similar stages.

Under-represented talent includes anyone who feels marginalised or that their voice isn’t heard and their perspective isn’t recognised.

The benefits of mentoring for both parties include:

  • Learning from the ideas and experiences of someone who is different from you and from another country.
  • Giving and receiving feedback.
  • Building professional identity and influence.
  • An exchange of international perspectives and working methods to enrich your local and international work.
  • Widening your employment networks for local productions and international co-productions and for remote and flexible work.
  • Building peer-to-peer networks.

Over the course of the programme, mentees will take part in monthly one-to-one online mentoring sessions delivered by respected international production and post-production professionals. 

The nine-month programme includes:

  • Introductory live webinar sessions for mentees and mentors
  • 9 x one-hour monthly structured mentee-mentor online sessions
  • 1 x half-way check-in 
  • Online networking sessions for the mentoring community 
  • 1 x wrap-up session
  • Follow ups with mentees and mentors.

Apply to be a mentor.  

Apply to be a mentee. 
(Applications for our 2026 programme for mentees will be open from 1 December 2025 to 18 January 2026.) 

Please also join our community (required for mentees, helpful for mentors).

If you have any questions, please email us at: info@screencraftworks.org

Read about our previous mentoring cohorts