Underwire is delighted to present a day for freelancing film professionals to receive practical and career focused advice from experts and practitioners.
Partners include Women in Film & TV (UK), Festival Formula and Shooting People. Speakers include Entertainment Lawyer Hayley Brady, Producer Loran Dunn, Production Accountant Lucy Drake, Mentoring Scheme Producer Nicola Lees, and Director Nicola Quilter. For the speaker biographies please visit this link.
Sessions will focus on:
- Becoming a Brand - building your website, identifying your niche assets, maintaining online portfolio, pitching yourself and projects with Katie McCullough from Festival Formula
- Contracts, Legalities and Rights - advice on negotiating, knowing what to check for and the questions to be asking with Entertainment Lawyer Hayley Brady
- Managing Finances - completing tax returns, crowd-funding projects, self-employment challenges with Production Accountant Lucy Drake
- Time Management – organising workloads, ensuring efficiency, what is worth investing “free” time in, and what is not?, with Shooting People’s Kelie Petterssen, Freelance Director Ben Aston, and Freelance Producers Loran Dunn and Douglas Cox
- Mentoring Opportunities – what is available and how can it be accessed?, with Nicola Lees from WFTV (UK)
- Interview and networking techniques – confidence-building strategies, making lasting industry connections.
The day is designed for filmmakers and industry professionals working across the industry that have been freelancing for less than five years and have made at least one short film. The event is open to both female and male freelancers.
The day runs from 9am to 5pm, followed by informal networking.
Tickets: £50 or £40 concessions* and includes a sandwich lunch and a drink at the networking session
APPLY NOW.
Please fill in the online application form. Deadline now extended to Tuesday 8 September at 9am.
Bursary placements: We are offering up to 5 free placements for freelancers who are currently unemployed. These placements have now all been filled.
*Concessions: persons over 60 years of age, students, registered disabled or unemployed – you will need to be able to provide evidence of your status.
The training day takes place at Hackney Attic, Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, London E8 1HE. The venue is: Five minutes from Hackney Central Overground station
Accessible by bus routes 48, 55, 106, 254, 277, 394, N55 and N253 running directly near the cinema
To plan your journey, please visit the TFL website.
This programme is supported by Creative Skillset’s Film Skills Fund, which is funded by the BFI with National Lottery funds, through the Skills Investment Fund.
