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Creative England
February 2021
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top stories
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Last week, The Creative Industries Federation released new
stats showing “crippling inequalities across the country”. Ahead of the
government’s Spring Budget, they're calling for further support for the
creative sector, as it seeks to find new ways to adapt and monetise
creative work.
Read the full response here.
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Discover! Creative Careers Week is an
online programme that aims to introduce over 60,000 secondary school
students to an exciting array of careers and workplaces across the
creative industries. Carrying on throughout the week, Creative Careers
will be running an online campaign #DiscoverProperJobs, celebrating the
lesser-known jobs within our sector and busting some myths about common
misconceptions around creative careers.
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filming in england
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Russell T Davies’
and RED Production Company’s It’s
A Sin has seen unparalleled success – on broadcaster Channel
4’s streaming service All4 at least, having been ‘binge-watched’ over 6
million times since it became available, setting a new record.
Read our latest production blog, outlining the
locations used in the North West, as well as how Filming in England
supported.
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Step Up is a post-production
supervisor training programme aimed at disabled people working in
post-related activity who want to turbo charge their careers and step
up into the role of post-production supervisor.
Find out more about the programme and how to apply here.
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This week, we
hosted an informative crew night, confronting the realities of
working in the industry head on, as well as examining the problems
COVID-19 exacerbated, and most importantly, what’s being done to
tackle them.
To find out more about our crew and facilities database and to get
access to future crew nights, you can register via the Filming in England website.
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uncovering
talent
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The BIFAs welcomed an impressive array of
celebrity hosts this month, including Harry Potter star, Tom Felton. The
evening saw many deserved wins including Perfect 10, an iFeatures
supported feature film, which bagged the Raindance Discovery Award. Well
done to director Eva Riley and the rest of the production team for an
amazing result.
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Small Axe, supported through our West Midlands Production Fund,
garnered many triumphs this month, including two Golden Globes
nominations, five Broadcasting Press Guild Awards nominations and two UK
Critics Circle Awards wins. Well done to writer and director Sir Steve
McQueen, and the rest of the team.
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Here Before, Stacey
Gregg’s debut feature developed through the fifth edition of our
iFeatures lab, has been selected for its world premiere to take place at the Narrative Feature
Competition SXSW this year. SXSW Online will be running from 16-21
March featuring keynotes, Conference sessions, Music Festival
showcases, Film Festival screenings and world-class networking.
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growth programmes
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We interviewed Ideate Manchester mentees Anna West and David
Callanan from Manchester-based studio IDLYA to find out more about making
their debut VR film To
Miss The Ending which screened at Sundance last month and
scooped the first-ever Virtual London Film Festival Audience Award for
Best XR/Immersive Art in 2020. Read the interview here.
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This month through our Advance Wakefield programme, we
hosted a partnered event with Tileyard Education, which aided budding
songwriters in their aims to better position themselves in the music
industry and learn the tricks of the trade. We had a fantastic turnout
and look forward to hosting similar events in the future. Keep up to date
and find out more about how Advance could help you here.
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Join Creative
England Associate and Storycentral Founder Alison Norrington for a
behind the scenes peek into her brand new industry leading course
'Supersize Your Story' on Friday 12th March at 1pm. During this
1hr webinar, we'll be interviewing Alison about her career to date,
how she has honed her recipe for pitching success and we'll be
getting some story supersizing top tips of our own. To register for
the webinar on 12th March follow this link.
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In association
with Doc Society and supported by Netflix UK, FWD-Doc has released a new Toolkit, which is a
comprehensive guide to making documentary film more
disabled-inclusive and accessible, both behind the camera and
on-screen. FWD-Doc was founded by Lindsey Dreyden, the recipient of
the Simon Relph Memorial Memorial Bursary and one of our Market
Trader alumni.
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investing in businesses
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Prior to 2020, the games sector was injecting more than
£2billion into the UK economy and creating countless jobs in a range of
diverse sub-sectors spanning development, publishing and merchandising.
Then the pandemic hit – and instead of grinding to a halt, the video game
industry evolved right alongside this uncertain period. Read our Games deep dive article in which industry
experts reflect on the trends & boundless future of investing in the
UK’s gaming sector.
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If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that content is the
undisputed king of our collective free time. Comedian-led community
platform ‘The Comedy Crowd’ by Jon Jayson,
co-founder of Creative Enterprise cohort team Grassroutes Entertainment
Ltd spoke to us this month about why investing
in the comedy talent of tomorrow is so important; His platform showcases
the fantastic talent of undiscovered creators and uses the power of the
crowd to make original content.
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creative
industries federation news
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The Creative Industries Federation convened hundreds of
creative practitioners from across the UK over the past year; the
conversations have been vast and all-encompassing, with big questions
around the role creativity can play in driving the UK’s future. Through
these discussions it has become clear that there are three key areas that
need urgent focus: People, Place and Planet. Find out more about how
their plan to reignite the industry here.
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Are you a creative freelancer or entrepreneur? The second
edition of RE:SET, the virtual action learning programme for artists and
creative freelancers based in England, is now open for applications, led
by the hub and the Creative Industries Federation. Deadline is this
Sunday 28th February – learn more here.
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We’re looking
for an Investment Manager/Analyst to join out investment team. This
role will be pivotal to examining and interpreting data to support
decisions about investments, ensuring our portfolio is well managed
and that potential investment opportunities are highlighted. The
deadline to apply is 22nd March
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We’re hiring an Investment Coordinator
to operate at the core of our investment team activity, working
against a clearly defined process, workflow and keeping the team
up-to-date with progress reports. You will be responsible for
providing an effective operational and administrative function to the
delivery of complex and innovative investment programmes.
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