ScreenSkills is the industry-led skills body for the screen industries – film, television (including children’s, unscripted and high-end), VFX (visual effects), animation and games. We are supporting economic recovery and future innovation and growth across the nations and regions by investing in the skilled and inclusive workforce who are critical to the UK screen industries’ global success.
We provide insight, career development and other opportunities to help people get into the industry and progress within it.
Our work includes:
– Identifying skills gaps – current and future – across the screen industries and the whole of the country to provide an evidence base for investment in skills and training
– Providing careers information
– Mapping and quality-marking professional pathways to improve entry-level diversity and work readiness
– Supporting development at every stage of a professional career in screen including through mentoring and offering bursaries.
How we do it
ScreenSkills supports talent at every level, from new entrants to programmes for mid-career professionals and executives and across the industry, from production accounting to exhibition and grips to writers.
We provide or are developing services to support the finding, nurturing and retention of award-winning talent including