Please Mind the Gap: A Screen Skills Symposium

Arts Connect Film Network and Flatpack Festival present a Screen Skills Symposium designed to bring together organisations and individuals from across the West Midlands and wider UK to explore how the industry can collaborate to support new, emerging and established talent and work towards reducing the skills shortage.

The UK continues to face significant skills gaps and recruitment issues across the film and TV industry with production companies, studios and organisations struggling to fill production roles. By working more collaboratively and jointly supporting initiatives we can offer a more cohesive picture of the industry and routes into the sector.

The day will comprise of keynote speakers, presentations and panel discussions which explore:

Identifying the issue How significant is the issue? What skills are missing? Changes and trends over the past few years.

Models of success
How are studios, companies and organisations working towards closing the gap?

Signposting
Who are the sign-posters and how do we effectively signpost young people to opportunities and jobs?

**Transferable skills **
Time to throw out the credit list? How can companies capitalise on transferable skills and track records in other sectors?

Freelancer life
How do we support and train a young freelance workforce to meet the needs of productions?

Collaborative approaches
How can organisations work more collaboratively to address the issue?

The day is open to individuals and companies working across the film, games and television industry who support young people in their workplace or through their delivery.