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Free Broadcast Technical Assistants Skills Bootcamp
Step into the fast-paced world of live production, TV, and digital media with All Spring Media's hands-on Broadcast Technical Assistants Skills Bootcamp. Designed to give you the foundational knowledge, practical skills, and technical confidence to operate and support real broadcast systems, all in just 10 days.
This training is ideal for: New entrants to broadcast/media technology, early-career engineers or technicians, Production professionals wanting to understand the tech, IT professionals transitioning into broadcast/IP environments.
This Skills Bootcamp is fully funded by the UK Government through Buckinghamshire Council and delivered in-person over two weeks at Sky Studios Elstree, running from 9:30am to 5:00pm (Monday to Friday). It’s an excellent opportunity for those looking to advance their careers in the film and TV industry. The studios are easy to access by car, with on-site parking available for all learners, and are also well connected by a dedicated shuttle bus service from Elstree & Borehamwood station.
Applications close on 17 October - find out more here.
Producer Wanted for Low-Budget Experimental Comedy Short
Actor and writer Katie McGuinness is seeking a producer for a low-budget experimental comedy short, scheduled to shoot over 2–3 days in early December.
The short centres on two characters, played by Ben Whishaw and Katie McGuinness, and serves as the first in a planned series exploring their evolving relationship. This initial short will be submitted to festivals as a standalone piece and will also form the foundation for raising funds to produce the remaining episodes next year.
This is an exciting opportunity to come on board at the early stages of a developing project. Katie is particularly keen to connect with WFTV-affiliated producers who have experience or interest in experimental, character-driven work and who bring a hands-on, collaborative approach.
The shoot will be straightforward — one interior location with a skeleton crew.
Katie can be contacted at kt_mcguinness@yahoo.com or +44 7714 762816, and will also be attending LFF over the next week for anyone who would like to arrange an informal chat in person.
Thank you,
Katie McGuinness
Applications open: Unscripted TV Camera Bootcamp – Birmingham
Want to boost your confidence behind the camera and take your career in unscripted TV to the next level?
ScreenSkills, in partnership with Eye Film, is running a 2-day Camera Bootcamp in Birmingham, 7–8 October 2025.
🎥 Hands-on training with Sony FX3 + FX6
🎤 Interview lighting & sound
📹 Shooting B-roll and sequences for the edit
🤖 Exploring AI tools in production
✅ 1:1 post-course review + online resources
This training is designed for researchers, assistant producers, and producers/directors who are already working in unscripted TV and have some self-shooting experience.
📅 Dates: 7–8 October 2025
📍 Location: Birmingham
💷 Fee: £100 (heavily subsidised by the ScreenSkills Unscripted TV Skills Fund)
🗓️ Application deadline: 28 September 2025
Bursaries and travel support are available to make the course accessible to all.
👉 Apply now via ScreenSkills: https://lnkd.in/egPkKhRY
Career Coaching Discount for WFTV UK Members
We are pleased to announce a new offer for our members from Karmjit Kaur, a qualified career development coach and a member of the WFTV UK Board of Directors.
Karmjit is offering a discount on her one-to-one career coaching sessions to all WFTV members. The coaching sessions are designed to help you navigate your career, whether you are early on in your career, trying to break into the industry, or a mid-career professional looking to step up and upskill.
Karmjit, the co-founder of the mentoring and careers advice platform The Lowdown, has extensive experience in the film and TV industry. She has delivered career development-themed workshops and sessions for clients across the industry and is familiar with the specific challenges and trends, including freelancing, building networks, and stepping into leadership roles. Her coaching focuses on supporting women, minorities, and underrepresented professionals.
Karmjit is offering a heavily discounted rate of £60 per 1-hour coaching session.
To find out more and book a free, no-obligation discovery call with Karmjit, please visit her website: the-lowdown.org/coaching.
In your booking, please ensure you state you are a WFTV member and would like to redeem the discounted rate.
CHAPTERS X FILM TV CHARITY PANEL AND NETWORKING EVENT
Chapters is excited to share details of their upcoming charity fundraiser event in partnership with The Film & TV Charity.
They will be hosting a Panel & Networking Event on Wednesday 1st October at One Ninety Four in Piccadilly, 7–11pm, with all ticket sales donated to the charity. The aim is to raise vital funds to support the resources provided by The Film & TV Charity, while also championing the UK as an industry that supports the people behind its success.
The industry panel will be hosted by Laurel Parker, Senior Lecturer at Ravensbourne University, and will feature:
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Bianca Gavin (Head of Production Film & Television, Vice Studios’ Pulse Films and Chair, Production Guild of Great Britain) – ‘Gangs of London’, ‘Bad Apples’, ‘Atomic’
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Benjamin Greenacre (Producer) – ‘The Lazarus Project’, ‘A Pale View of Hills’, ‘The Outlaws’
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Elizabeth Rufai (Producer) – BAFTA-winning short ‘Jellyfish and Lobster’ and ‘Urchin’
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Michael Constable (Executive Producer & Line Producer) – ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’, ‘The Expendables 4’, ‘Hedda’ (TIFF 2025)
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Mickey Down (Writer) – Co-creator, showrunner and writer of ‘Industry’
It promises to be a fantastic evening, and Chapters looks forward to welcoming attendees in support of such an important cause.
Eventbrite Link for tickets!
LLF Discount Code - Industry Forum
Accreditation is now open for the Industry Forum at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express. Join this October and enjoy exclusive networking opportunities, screenings, keynotes, panels and more.
WFTV members can save 15% on Industry, Industry+ and Industry Online passes with discount code LFF2569WFTV15.
Find the pass for you https://theb.fi/44uE1Gx
COURSE - Screenskills Leading Effective Teams In Post and VFX for HETV
They’re back! Don’t miss the opportunity of these FREE online courses which have received such fantastic feedback.
Leading Effective teams in VFX for HETV
Wednesday 15 October 2025 - 09:30 to 14:30
Thursday 23 October 2025 - 09:30 to 14:30
Apply here
Leading Effective teams in Post for HETV
Tuesday 14 October 2025 - 09:30 to 14:30
Wednesday 22 October 2025 - 09:30 to 14:30
Apply here
Please apply asap as places are limited. ScreenSkills is committed to supporting the freelance workforce and these courses are for freelancers or those on short term contracts (maximum duration 12 months).
If these criteria do not apply to you - please do circulate this email to relevant colleagues and contacts who could benefit.
Why this course?
Many people in post and VFX are promoted based on their technical skills. A significant majority receive no training in people management or leadership skills at all.
These highly regarded courses, especially created for post and VFX professionals, provide relevant, practical, supportive ideas and insights that busy team leaders and managers can put into practice right away.
The courses are for anyone in post and VFX who has direct reports, leads a team or is stepping into a team leadership role.
As well as a the highly interactive online session, each participant receives a follow up one to one mentor session to provide support in implementing leadership skills in practice.
The courses are rooted in the day-to-day realities of working in post and VFX. You will come away with key ideas, tips, resources and, above all, increased confidence in the way you develop effective team leadership skills.
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The essential ingredient - leading by example and building trust
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Mastery, Autonomy and Purpose – how to understand intrinsic motivation and support MAP in your team
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Understanding and meeting the needs of individual team members
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Effective communication skills
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Managing your workload and that of your team – setting expectations and priorities
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Effective delegation
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Addressing underperformance or poor behaviour
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Creating an inclusive environment where your team can do their best work
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Investing in your leadership role
Exclusive WFTV members' discount for Wonder Women Conference at BFI Southbank
Wonder Women, the pioneering network dedicated to advancing diverse women in Television, Film and the Creative Industries, proudly announces the return of its flagship event, The Wonder Women Conference, on Friday, 26th September 2025 at the iconic BFI Southbank, London, marking its third year as a transformative gathering of diverse women working across the sector.
Featuring a line-up of senior industry leaders, the one-day conference will bring together 450 women in mid-to-senior-level roles across the creative sector for a dynamic programme of inspiration, practical learning, and industry-wide connection.
Our friends at Wonder Women have kindly given WFTV UK members an exclusive discount on tickets for the summit.
Simply use promo code WFTV to claim £5 off the ticket price here.
Special Offer for WFTV Members: Discounted Script Editing for Short Films (via Zoom)
WFTV member Gaia Meucci-Astley is offering WFTV members 3 x express script editing sessions on short film scripts (max 15 pages) at a discounted rate of £50.
You’ll get a 1:1 Zoom session (45 minutes) and the recording so you can re-watch it in your own time.
Since these are an express version of their standard script consultancy sessions, it will only focus on some key elements and I won’t provide follow-up notes.
If you are interested, you can email gaiameucci@gmail.com
You can find out more about Gaia and read some reviews on her website: gaiascripteditor.com
Online Support Space for ADHD & Autistic Women in the TV Industry
🌟 Introducing a Monthly Free Online Support Space for ADHD & Autistic Women in the TV Industry, Supporting Our Community🌟
Member Chloe Dean is launching a free, monthly online event created specifically as a safe, supportive space for ADHD and autistic women working in the TV industry.
These sessions will be a place where you can:
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Share your experiences, challenges, and successes without judgment
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Discuss industry shifts, personal growth, and the unique hurdles we face in this field
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Build connection and community with others who truly understand the journey
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Collaborate on practical tools, strategies, and insights to support our well-being and careers
While the focus is on creating community and open dialogue, it is as a vital step in developing resources and tools tailored to your needs—solutions that empower you to thrive both personally and professionally.
This is a space for you — completely free, entirely online, and a place to be seen, heard, and supported by others who truly get it.
If you're interested, email chloe@clickpost.tv for more details.
SPOTLIGHT - FREE ONE YEAR MEMBERSHIP FOR WFTV MEMBERS
To celebrate our partnership with Spotlight, they are giving our members a one year free membership!
Register Here, to activate your membership and use code SLWFTV1 at the checkout.
Need a walkthrough? Contact casting@spotlight.com and they'll happily provide a demo!
WFTV Member Launches - Script Savvy
WFTV member Leana Arrell announces their new venture - Script Savvy - a script consultation service which offers guidance, feedback and critique for scripts. With different levels of feedback - from just a couple of pages of feedback from a read-through, all the way to in-depth mentoring and development for your script. For more information or to get a quote, please get in touch at hello@script-savvy.com.
Follow script Savvy on Facebook here.
WFTV Member - Podcast Call Out
One of our members is looking for podcast guests across the next 12 months to sit down with other creatives in the same fields to chat about career progression and breaking down their industries.
The catch is that one is early career and the other mid/senior. Each conversation will be moderated and hopefully we’ll all learn something at the end of it all.
This is a self-funded project but the podcast has been awarded a small grant to help with costings.
They are looking for all kinds of guests from pre production and post production job titles.
If you want to impart wisdom, or gain some please email sfearonmelville@gmail.com or DM @sabrinafearonmelville on Instagram.
FLICKD: the social app for all film & TV lovers
Imagine you could easily connect with other TV & film lovers for free in a safe place online without distractions or clunky user experiences? flickd has launched its free app in UK for iOS and Android users, hoping to transform the experience for TV and film enthusiasts across the world.
What is flickd?
flickd is an app for the TV & film community, a “movie/tv club 2.0” which includes both film and TV shows and delivers an intuitive and modernized user experience which puts its users first, alongside their favorite content. There is no single safe place built with film+TV lovers in mind, where users can openly share opinions and enter discussions with a user-first content-forward clean and modernized UX. flickd is a modern-day Goodreads but for film and TV instead of books – the user discussions and content are connected and at the centre of the app, letting film and TV fans discuss all aspects of the content in depth, learn from each other and share thoughts on specific scenes in a safe online setting.
Who founded flickd?
flickd was founded in 2024 by Matilde Neffe out of a strong need to create a user-centric app for all TV & film lovers like herself, to come together and have discussions around content, as well as track what they're watching in one single place. After 10 years at Amazon, Matilde decided to leave the company and pursue her passion for film & TV.
While at Amazon, she gained extensive experience at Prime Video, working with studios to integrate their content onto Prime Video's selection, and leading the team responsible for personalization and recommendation of content across iOS, Android, Fire TV and smart TVs. Next, she worked closely with startups at AWS and then with Product and Engineering in the development of the search functionality of the Amazon app on both iOS and Android, leveraging cutting-edge technology like automated speech recognition and GenAI technologies.
Chapters Agency & Diary Service
Chapters Agency & Diary Service represents freelancers in Film, Drama and Commercials, both in London and regionally across the UK.
They have now extended their regional crew representation to include Northern Ireland and applications are open.
Feel free to get in touch with an email and CV to cv@chapterspeople.co.uk or call to find out more on 020 87471203.
chapterspeople.co.uk | @chapterspeople
Black Women in Post Production (BWIPP) Network
Are you a Black/Black Mixed heritage woman or non-binary creative working or aspiring to work in Post Production. Join the Black Women In Post Production Network for free here.
By joining their community, you'll gain access to a wealth of resources, tools and support systems in a safe, inclusive digital space.
Together, we're shaping the future of their industry by connecting Black female and non-binary talent to opportunity and building networks that are all too often out of reach.
You'll receive an invite to their Community Hub and have the option to join their talent directory too!
For allies, advocates and industry friends that wish to support their work and be invited to their networking events, please sign up to their mailing lis.
Listen to BWIPP Network on Spotify here.
Watch BWIPP Network on YouTube here.
Follow on Instagram: @bwippnetwork
WFTV member has set up a WFTV Short Film Club group chat
Casey has put together a WFTV Short Film Club group chat in order to find collaborations, ask questions about funding or just general support and queries.
If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please fill in the form here with your details.
Join the Messy Collective - London’s messiest writers collective
The three founders of Messy Collective are known as the Messy Women and organise events and online spaces in their own chaotic fashion because they adore the quirky, hot-but-doesn’t-know-it community they’ve built, and want to help talented artists connect and create great work.
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They run monthly drinks for writers and collaborators, plus other events
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Run a WhatsApp group for writers and collaborators to chat, celebrate and commiserate
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Their newsletter will consist of invites to events, monthly writeealongs, workshops and live reads of new work.
Actors' Children's Trust - Fund for actors who are parents
The Actors’ Children’s Trust (ACT) funds actors who are parents. ACT pays for children’s activities, support for specialist educational needs and disabilities, kit, IT and lots more.
ACT may be able to make work more feasible by paying childcare costs of up to £600 per child per month, or the cost of seeing your family when you are working away from home. You don’t have to be on benefits. Gross household income (plus general savings over £6k) should total less than £45,000 in the last 12 months. Charity grants are not taxable and don’t affect benefits.
Send the confidential contact form on actorschildren.org or email robert@actorschildren.org.