
AFCI Elects most Globally Diverse Board to Date
The Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) announces its most geographically and culturally diverse board of directors in the organization’s 45-year history.
The Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) announces its most geographically and culturally diverse board of directors in the organization’s 45-year history.
There is a continued demand for High Level Accredited Supervisors as productions need Covid Supervisors that have a deep understanding of Covid safety and the impact of measures on each department. The Third round of The Production Guild of Great Britain’s training High Level Supervisor Training will take place online on the 6th and 13th March 2021. Applications are now open.
Stage Fifty promises production-ready sound stages that can be built anywhere in just four months. Three UK film studio sites from Stage Fifty are currently in development, creating over 300,000 square feet of high-quality stage space.
Ad Net Zero is encouraging the industry to make a substantial gear-change in a critical year for climate change in the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow this November. The UK advertising industry’s initiative to help UK advertising response to the climate crisis has announced its supporter base including APA, Dentsu, Publicis Group, and Wieden+Kennedy.
The "Live & Wild" project is filming in extreme remote locations, terrains and weather conditions to test the capacity of 5G to support film and television productions.
The Production Guild of Great Britain and Netflix are looking for applicants for the Assistant Production Accountant Training Scheme (NAPATS). Eight recruits with good accounting experience and a passion for film and TV will be provided with four weeks of intensive training in assistant production accounting from industry professionals, followed by 12 months of full-time training on Netflix productions. Applications are open until Monday 22 February 2021.
The crew service has secured 3,127 days’ work for skilled freelancers working in the region’s growing film & TV sector. Fable Pictures was one of the production companies to utilise the service for a high-end TV drama, hiring twelve local crew members on period drama Anne Boleyn (pictured below), which filmed entirely in Yorkshire in late 2020.
The British Film Institute's Official 2020 statistics provide a positive outlook for the industry. Despite a nearly six month pause in physical production, the total UK spend on High end TV and film is down just 21% on 2019. Nearly GBP1.19 out of the total GBP2.34 spend was recorded in the final quarter, signalling significant recovery and a resilience of the UK industry.