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Filmmaking opportunity for creatives open for applications
Calling the Shots, a Bristol-based production company, have launched an exciting opportunity for young creatives in the city.
The company has been enabling new voices since 1998 and now is working with the BBC Arts and Arts Council England to find 100 New Creatives aged between 16 and 30-years-old living Bristol and the South West.
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The initiative will teach aspiring filmmakers industry skills
The initiative offers commissioning opportunities for emerging artists by creating film, radio and interactive work for BBC platforms including iPlayer, Radio 4 Extra and BBC Sounds.
The opportunity helps aspiring artists build specialist skills and experiences“Progression has always been the challenge so it’s great to be working with the BBC to find emerging talent and develop and produce their ideas up to broadcast quality,” says Jeremy Routledge, development producer at Calling the Shots.
Calling the Shots is engaging with a range of specialist mentors from different disciplines in the creative industry to offer bespoke support to the New Creatives applicants.
Mentors include BAFTA-winning animator Emma Lazenby, writer Edson Burton, radio producer Mair Bosworth and filmmaker Freya Billington.
“Mentoring film like this is an extremely rewarding and successful process for all involved,” says Freya. “I also benefit by getting the opportunity to work with a range of artists joining the project with very different ideas, perspectives and levels of knowledge which is exciting and dynamic.”
In 1998, Calling the Shots created their first short film, Stray which was filmed in St Paul’s
Production-based mentoring has been a key approach for Calling the Shots since producing Stray in 1998 with homeless charity Bread Youth Project, in which an experienced film crew joined young trainees to create the short film.
Jeremy adds: “It’s a key part of making an experience worthwhile, that sense of benefiting from someone’s experience and taking that learning forward to the next stage of your personal development.”
Applications for New Creatives close on January 12, 2020. To find out more and apply to be a New Creative visit www. callingtheshots.co.uk
Images thanks to Calling the Shots
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