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Art College links in TV/Film Production Guild to offer Producer training

Cleveland College of Art & Design in association with the Production Guild of Great Britain and Northern Film & Media are running a Momentum, a 10 month industry training and mentoring scheme which may help you gain the skills needed to get on further in the industry. This FREE training course is and will be open to producers working in medium of film or television working in the region with a minimum of 1 years professional experience? This exciting, industry led scheme will include a series of 5 industry led seminars covering areas such as The Role of a Producer/Produce a Location Shoot, Monitoring and Control of the Production Process and Distribution & Exhibition. In addition to the seminars, there will be an industry mentoring scheme led by successful producers operating both nationally and internationally, visits to Production Companies in the South East and a final Networking Event.

Melanie Shee, Business Development Manager and CCAD is delighted about this training scheme “this is an exciting new partnership between Cleveland College of Art & Design, the Production Guild and is as far as I am aware a unique to the region. The Production Guild will bring with them a unique insight into the industry, with producers working at the top of their industry which will give those in the region an new competitive edge needed to succeed”

Fran Triefus, Training & Development Officer at the Guild said `We are delighted to be working with Cleveland College of Art & Design on this exciting partnership to identify and train the next generation of British film and tv producers“

Momentum is funded by the North East Higher Skills Pathfinder and Northern Film and Media.

So if you are Producer operating from the north east region but having difficulty in developing your business further go to http://www.ccad.ac.uk/Momentum.aspx to find out more.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .