Create Central’s Skills Accelerator
20 December 2023
Get Wednesday 24 January in your diary for our Skills Accelerator event taking place in Coventry
Create Central is one of six UK BFI Skills Clusters working together to address the acute skills shortages in the screen sector and to make the sector more accessible and representative. Our Skills Accelerator programme is developed by local industry based on current market-need in the West Midlands, with support from Create Central Members and industry partners like the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, YouTube, Kudos, Shine and many more.
We're launching three new FREE training courses, with the support of the BFI, awarding National Lottery funding, and with additional funding from the West Midlands Combined Authority.
More details about the event will be available in the new year, but for now, if you would like to join us in Coventry on 24 January to find out more about this exciting new programme please register your interest by emailing events@createcentraluk.com before Wednesday 10 January.
Create Central's Skills Accelerator courses are open for applications now!
The first pilot courses are now open for applications, but don't worry if the timing is not right for you, these new courses will be running over the next two years - so come along to our event in January and find out how you can start your career in TV & Film, or take it to the next level.
Rock up Ready
TV & Film Career Launchpad - this is designed to equip film, television and digital media graduates, and graduates from all other disciplines, with knowledge and skills to develop a career in the local and national production sector. FIND OUT MORE & APPLY
TV & Film Fusion
Scripted and Unscripted TV & Film Careers - for new entrants, this course requires no qualifications and will provide participants with the skills to build portfolio careers in both scripted and unscripted - drama and factual - in the West Midlands. FIND OUT MORE & APPLY
Step up to HOD
Empowering Future Department Heads in the TV & Film Industry (scripted and unscripted) - creating a talent pipeline of highly skilled and well-trained crew ready to take on more senior roles within the sector in the West Midlands. FIND OUT MORE & APPLY
