The new website provides a comprehensive directory for all productions, complimenting the support provided by Creative England’s Production Services team alongside our Film Office Partners, and regional and national networks.
FOCUS Digital 2020, makers & shakers Awards 2020 and makers magazine will be hitting your screens in December with a range of exciting online events and content hosted on one digital platform. It’s been a crazy year but we are determined to end 2020 with a virtual bang!
Ad Net Zero’s Mission is for immediate, collective industry action to help achieve real net zero carbon emissions by the end of 2030 and is the result of work by the Climate Action Working Group. The five-point plan for the whole industry to help the development, production and media placement of advertising reach real net zero.
The accredited Covid Supervisor Training is targeted at Production Managers, Line Producer and Location Managers working in film and television and a call for participants will follow later in November.
National restrictions in England will see cinemas, pubs and restaurants, gyms and non-essential shops close for a minimum of four weeks from Friday 5 November. Unlike the first lockdown wave, TV, film and advertising will not halt.
The Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB) has launched a new diversity and Inclusion action Group (DIAG) tasked with shaping an action plan to improve diversity in the UK’s film and television production workforce behind the camera.
The scheme is expected to support over 40,000 jobs across the creative sector by allowing planned productions to shoot during the pandemic. The Government-backed GBP500 million scheme formally launches after receiving state aid approval from the EU.
The Film and TV Charity, an organisation that supports everyone who works behind the scenes in UK film, television and cinema, has a new Covid-19 Recovery Fund open to support people who have been hit hardest by the pandemic. Apply or share the opportunity to friends before the scheme closes on Monday 12 October.