Join us for this industry day as part of Foyle Film Festival presents... Reel Lives
10.30am – 11.30am
BFI Film Academy Labs | Essential Skills for Freelancers with Alison Grade
11.30am – 12.15pm
CINE | Creative Industries New Entrants with David Corscadden
1pm – 2.15pm
Screenskills | Building On Set resilience with Alison Surtees
BFI Film Academy Labs | Essential Skills for Freelancers with Alison Grade
10.30am – 11.30am
This session is focused on looking ahead to your career in the creative industries and is designed to give you insights, strategies and practical tools to enable you to manage and develop a freelance career.
The session is presented by Alison Grade, author of The Freelance Bible. BFI Film Academy Labs is all about helping 16–25 year-olds break into the screen industries. The BFI Film Academy Venue Education Fund is kindly supported by the National Lottery.
CINE | Creative Industries New Entrants with David Corscadden
11.30am – 12.15pm
This workshop will introduce the Creative Industries New Entrants programme (CINE), a new initiative which aims to broaden access to the screen and creative industries at entry level.
Funded by the Department for Communities and working in partnership with BBC Northern Ireland, the scheme will help identify new talent.
In line with UK-wide screen industry initiatives CINE will prioritise applicants from underrepresented ethnic minority, socio-economic, and disabled communities, to expand our growing creative industries sector and create a more diverse generation of ‘New Entrants’ of all ages.
Screenskills | Building On Set resilience with Alison Surtees
1pm – 2.15pm
This session will look at how we keep ourselves well under stress and pressure. The Film and TV Industry can be fast paced and intense, so protecting our mental health and wellbeing is crucial to our resilience, especially when away from home and our usual networks of support.
This is a practical session looking at tools, tips and techniques to help keep you on track.
ScreenSkills is the UK-wide industry-led skills body for the screen industries — film, television (including children's, unscripted and high end), VFX (visual effects), animation and games. ScreenSkills provides industry focused insight, career development, training and cash grants to help people get into the industry and progress within it. To learn more about training and resources from ScreenSkills check out screenskills.com and contact NI Training Manager liz.barron@screenskills.com
This session is sponsored by the ScreenSkills HETV Skills Fund.
Foyle Film Festival presents... Reel Lives
This event is part of Foyle Film Festival presents Reel Lives, a new short programme aiming to showcase different lives on screen, shining a light on alternative, lesser known perspectives, inspiring stories and people and communities on the margins seeing themselves on the big screen.
Reel Lives will host a series of public screenings, a primary and post primary education programme and some Foyle Film Festival favourites such as Cinematic Breakfasts and Dementia Friendly screenings.
