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Spring 2023 Cross-Border Mentee-Mentor Matches

We are delighted to announce our Spring 2023 cross-border mentee-mentor matches, supporting under-represented production and post talent. Film & TV craftspeople wishing to strengthen industry relationships across diaspora and original homeland communities emerges as an exciting focus. The Spring 2023 cohort comes together for ScreenCraft Works’ third Cross-Border Mentoring programme, designed to build transnational relationships and enrich …

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Cross-Border Networking event

Hosted by Women in Film & TV Jamaica, UK Muslim Film and ScreenCraft Works. Wednesday 24 May 2023 This virtual event brought together talent from around the world, to stimulate new collaborations and for peer-to-peer networking. Watch the introductions from the three co-host organisations or read the transcript.

Cross-Border Careers: How to Manage Difficult Conversations at Work

Monday 5 June 2023 Future Studios Producer Hannah Beaugeard discussed a range of ways to tackle difficult subject matters with colleagues and on-screen contributors. She looked at empathetic and inclusive ways to conduct discussions, including the giving and receiving of constructive feedback in working and mentoring relationships.Hannah, who is also one of the Bullying & …

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Cross-Border Careers: Working with a Multinational Production Company

Thursday 6 July 2023 Ewan Vinnicombe-Wallis, Executive Producer, and currently Project Director at Fremantle, talked about how job titles and roles vary between countries, different approaches to CVs, and how you can use professional websites and social media to enhance your career opportunities around the world. He also touched on hybrid and virtual roles, and offered a brief overview of his role developing the skills …

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Cross-Border Careers: Learning edit basics for virtual work flows

Nigel Honey, CEO of the Ability Post Production Academy for remote and on-site training, gave a workshop for those wishing to learn editing basics for virtual or on-site work flows, looking at industry-standard software Avid, Adobe Premiere and DaVinci. Watch the recording of the talk, or read the transcript. About Nigel G Honey: Nigel has over 25 years’ …

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Cross-Border Conversation: Building International Co-Productions

Watch the recording or read the transcript. How do you take your first steps in international co-pros? How do you choose a co-production partner? How can you build the best international crews and production teams? How can you give agency and voice to the right people in the right way? What experiences – inspiring and …

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Cross-Border Conversation: Creating Animated Stories

Tuesday 3 October 2023  Watch the recording or read the transcript. How do animators, sound designers, composers and other departments work together for the very best animated storytelling? How does the team build narrative structure, create rounded characters, and enhance emotion? Our speakers, drawn from the ScreenCraft Works community, are at different stages of their careers:Mariia Shub (production …

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Cross-Border Conversation: Multi-role v single-discipline jobs in film & TV – what is the best approach?

Thursday 22 June 2023 Many people in film & TV production & post-production now perform hyphenated roles. From editor-writer-director, producer-director-academic and editor-sound, our speakers discussed the merits and challenges of working across several roles versus specialising in a single discipline. What is most enjoyable and effective for delivery? What is driven by choice and what …

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Banner headed Cross-Border Conversation: Preparing for your Sound Mix, featuring four roundel headshots

Cross-Border Conversation: Preparing for your Sound Mix

Supported by Genelecwith speakers Eric Horstmann, Emma Butt and Liz Horsman.Thursday 30 March 2023 The speakers, who are drawn from our community and are at different levels of experience and from different countries, discussed workflow, organisation from edit to sound mix, how all the elements are laid out, how sound designers work and communicate with other departments, the …

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Cross-Border Careers: Setting up business in the UK as a sole trader or freelancer

How to set up a new craft business in the UK, as a sole trader or freelancer in film & TV, when wishing to work internationally. How should you manage your accounts as a film & TV freelancer? How do you start your own business for production and post-production film & TV crafts services? Abu …

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