Based at the state-of-the-art Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center at Industry City, the one-year advanced degree program debuts in the Fall of 2024. Professor Michael Carmine working with film students on cinematography techniques. The new degree will allow students to film in multiple locations with different lighting setups on one virtual production stage. (Photo courtesy ... Read more
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Film London has named Babak Jani as Head of Skills, to oversee the screen agency’s skills initiatives, including the new Metro London Skills Cluster. Funded by the BFI National Lottery funding for skills, the Cluster will be dedicated to supporting the development of a skills pipeline for the screen industries including film, TV, games and animation ... Read more
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Pixotope, the leading software platform for end-to-end realtime virtual production solutions, announces that Husson University has joined the Pixotope Education Program, the company’s educational and community-building initiative designed to help enable the next generation of virtual production talent. As the first U.S.-based education program partner, the addition of Husson marks the program’s expansion across the Atlantic, further ... Read more
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Women in Film and Television UK (WFTV) announces that it is accepting applications for its prestigious 2024 WFTV Four Nations Mentoring Scheme now via www.wftv.org.uk/mentoring until 5pm on Monday 11 September 2023. WFTV is looking for 41 mentees for next year’s scheme – 20 from England and 7 each from Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland ... Read more
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As millions of students receive their A-level results this week, new research shows that although over half of school leavers (53%) are interested in pursuing a career in the TV and film industry, only 18% believe it is realistic for them. Amidst a blockbuster summer of film, and Barbie fever taking the UK by storm, ... Read more
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Pathway Indie has revealed its roster of media start-up mentors and industry collaborators that have been hand-picked from the media and entertainment industry. Last month Pathway named its virtual production stage after film industry legend Sir Sydney Samuelson and opened applications to Pathway Indie, a benefit in-kind $2.5m (£2m) media start-up programme. The tech-style incubator ... Read more
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This year marks ten years of the High-end TV (HETV) Skills Fund. As we celebrate the occasion with a series of features that look at the work of the Fund in the past ten years, ScreenSkills’ Director of High-end Television, Kaye Elliott, shares her thoughts. 2023 marks the tenth year of the industry-led High-end TV Skills Fund, ... Read more
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In a bid to nurture the film world’s writing talent, the UK production company will fully fund and produce the winning films at their state-of-the art production studios in Badbury in 2023 and 2024. One teenager, one camera, and one hell of a passion for filmmaking. That’s how Sandstorm Films started life several decades ago. ... Read more
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The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) has named eight honourees for its 25th Annual Emerging Cinematographer Awards (ECA). Celebrating the talent of promising cinematographers, while providing crucial exposure needed to become successful filmmakers, the ECAs are the only awards event in the industry to celebrate and nurture the careers of emerging directors of ... Read more
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Raheen Fatima and Manyasiri ‘Pear’ Chotbunwong have been named the winners of the Canon Young Champion of the Year Award at the Global Good Awards 2023, while Lens on Life was awarded the new YPP Partner of the Year Award. The Global Good Awards was founded in 2015 to recognise the businesses, NGOs, charities and ... Read more
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