Grants made to organisations to support the ongoing development of skills within the existing UK film workforce. If you are interested in attending any of these schemes, please contact the provider directly - but please be aware that some of the schemes have already closed.

Current Funding (open to applicants):

Greasepaint Ltd
Airbrushing, Period Hair and Make-Up and Prosthetics
£26,940.00
November 2005
Airbrushing – includes airbrushing techniques with emphasis on corrective straight make-ups special effects, training and care and the use of compressor and airbrush. Period hair and make-up – includes styling and application of wigs, dressing own hair and use of hair in conjunction with the appropriate make-ups. Prosthetics – includes casting, making and applying casting, making and applying pieces and measuring, making and applying bald caps. Greasepaint

Previously Funded (all closed to application):

Film London
Location Manager Training Course
£40,000.00
November 2005
Modular course for Location Managers and their Assistants, delivered as a combination of traditional and 'virtual' training to fit with busy working schedules. A comprehensive course designed by established Location Managers with five key modules covering 18 topic areas (including legal, contractual and health & safety issues). Film London

The Production Guild
PROGRESS: The Production Guild Film Skills Continuing Development Programme
£40,000.00
March 2006 PROGRESS: The Production Guild's Film Skills Continuing Development Programme is an integrated and flexible skills and learning environment for film production and accounting freelancers seeking to move to the next level in their careers in the UK feature film industry. Production Guild

VET
Avid Film Composer Training, High Definition Overview, DVD Authoring on Scenarist
£35,483
October 2005
Avid Film Composer Training - This 3-day course provides a thorough introduction to dealing with film projects on Avid including an understanding of current developments in non-linear film prost-production technology. The course includes 2 days of tuition and a day of visits to a telecine facility and neg cutter. Participants need to have good operational competence on Avid Media Composer. High Definition Overview - This 1/2 day course provides a thorough overview of the implications of HD Technology for production, post-production, and exhibition. DVD Authoring on Scenarist - This 2-day course provides a thorough introduction into the DVD Authoring process and its implications for production, sales, and distribution. VET

The Directors Guild of Great Britain
Directors Guild Trainee Director Scheme for Feature Films
£38,496.00
March 2005
The Directors Guild Trainee Director Scheme aspires to select a number of Trainee Directors as observers on attachment to publicly funded British feature films. Trainees will observe all key moments in the production, with special emphasis on the shooting period and work of the director, whom they would track as closely as possible. 4 training places available. The Directors Guild of Great Britain

Moonstone
Moonstone International Screenwriters' Programme - Screenwriters' Labs
£27,658.00
October 2005
Ensuring the supply of 24 skilled and talented screenwriters to the industry. By recruiting participants from different backgrounds, we ensure diversity of the film industry workforce. By enabling emerging writers to work closely with established screenwriters we raise knowledge and awareness of skills and career development opportunities. We increase the knowledge and range of opportunities available. Moonstone International

North by Northwest (NNW)
North by Northwest Classics
£30,000.00
October 2005
North by Northwest offers professional skill development in screenplay techniques, script editing for feature films and TV drama production to professional filmmakers. Providing filmmakers from diverse cultural backgrounds with the skills and tools required to write, craft and develop high potential screenplays and the network opportunity with other professionals. North By Northwest

PAL (Performing Arts Labs Ltd)
Fact / Fiction Lab
£40,000.00
November 2005
The Fact/Fiction Lab is a 'bespoke' film development programme for experienced professional screenwriters, documentary filmmakers and journalists (including investigative journalists) focused on the process of developing stories for feature films from a factual source, either as fictional adaptations of true stories or feature length documentaries. PAL

NFTS (National Film & Television School)
Post-Graduate Diploma in Digital Post-Production
£83,922.00
January 2006
This modular Diploma course will be tutored by current industry practitioners and are aimed at those who want to work within the digital arena for Post-Production. Students will learn the philosophy, techniques, art and craft of different areas within Post-Production so as to be able to use available technology to its best effect. NFTS

NFTS (National Film & Television School)
Post-Graduate Diploma in Producing Visual and Special Effects
£66,078.00
March 2006
This modular diploma course will be tutored by current industry practitioners and is aimed at those who want to work within the digital arena for visual and special effects. Students will learn the philosophy, techniques, art and craft of different areas within production and post, so as to be able to use available technology to its best effect. NFTS

Berlinale Talent Campus
£75,000.00
November 2005
The 56th Berlin International Film Festival invites 500 emerging filmmakers from over 90 countries around the world to apply to the Berlinale Talent Campus. The Campus is an area for know-how and inspiration. Participants will have the opportunity to meet and learn from renowned professionals from all cultures and generations. Berlin Talent Campus  

Profile Media Services
Laying on Facial Hair, Ladies Hair Cutting and Styling course, Men's Hair Cutting and Styling Course and Setting and Dressing Ladies long hair
£12,747.22
November 2005
Laying on Facial Hair - This project will ensure that make-up and hair artists update their skills in applying loose hair to create beards, moustaches, sideburns, side whiskers and eyebrows to change the performers appearance. These skills are being called for more and more on period, and modern day films, and are essential with the use of digital and HD digital technology. Ladies Hair Cutting and Styling course - this is a two day course for freelance make-up and hair artists working in the industry who need to update their skills in ladies haircutting and styling. These skills need constantly updating, as methods of cutting and styling are constantly changing. Men's Hair Cutting and Styling - this is a two day course for freelance Hair Artists who need to update their skills in Cutting and Styling Men's hair. The course covers both modern and period styles using the most up-to-date methods and products. Setting and Dressing Ladies long hair - this is a two day course for freelance make-up and hair artists working in the film industry. It will cover modern and period hairstyles, using modern equipment and products to achieve the designed style. Each course will cover all aspects of health and safety. Contact telephone number: 020 8892 8752

Short Courses@NFTS
Short Courses Combination
£99,619.00
September 2005
This Short Courses Combination includes – Script Supervisors, Lightworks Touch Editing; Lightworks Touch for Assistant Editors; Hard Disk Recording Techniques; Location Sound & Boom Operation; HD Shooting for Directors; Film Lighting Workshops (inc. nights); Design Through the Camera; Health & Safety for Production Personnel; Art Department Health & Safety; Forklift and Scissor Lift Truck Op for Stagehands; Telescopic Handling; Upgrade Train for Fork & Scissor Lift with H&S; 35mm Camera Operators; 16mm/35mm Camera Fam; Shooting Underwater. NFTS

South West Screen
Animation Bridge
£94,237.00
September 2005
'Animation Bridge' will significantly improve the CPD of animation practitioners through a 12-week intensive 'Stop Frame to CGI' course at Aardman Animation (UK's leading animation company) with world class specialist trainers and through making elements of the course more widely accessible to industry (and key training providers) at masterclasses in Bristol and London. 6 training places are available for the 12 week course 50 training places are available for the Masterclasses. South West Screen

NFTS (National Film & Television School)
Digital Producing - The Elements
£89,150.00
August 2005
An Industry led training scheme to assist in the continuing professional development of filmmakers producing films through the UK Film Council's national Digital Shorts production initiative. This flexible modular training programme will be directly delivered into a practical production environment across the nations and regions of the UK. 104 training places are available. NFTS

Samuelson Productions Ltd
The Skillset/Samuelson New Training
£200,000.00
July 2005
A scheme to kick-start the careers of 8 Feature Film Producers ready for the next step, the Skillset/Samuelson New Producer Network offers an unprecedented and fully funded opportunity to learn the job from the inside through a series of key work-placements and workshops. A chance to establish relations and knowledge vital to the successful producer, guided by established industry leaders. Samuelsons New Producer Training website

The Script Factory
Skillset Writers' Circle
£50,000.00
June 2005
A landmark project designed to identify, support and develop 6 'conversion' writers, all of whom already have experience and success in a field other than screenwriting, with a programme of industry events. The Script Factory

Moonstone
Moonstone International filmakers Lab
£40,000.00
May 2005
The filmmakers lab is a 16 day intensive programme where 8 directors collaborate with a professional cast and crew in order to reherse,shoot, edit and screen key scenes from a feature film projuect, which they are developing. This is all done under the guidance of experienced directors of renown, who act as advisors. 8 training places available. Moonstone International

Independent Cinema Office
Cultural Cinema Exhibition Training
£53,089.00
April 2005
A national training programme for the specialised film sector developing programming and audience development skills. 100 training places available Independent Cinema Office

APT Films
APT Films Development Workshops
£5,000.00
April 2005
A low cost informal monthly development workshop fro writers, directors, producers and development professionals presented by industry professionals for industry professionals on all aspects of script development. Workshops include drinks and nibbles and on online follow-through forum. There is no need to book, just turn up and put £3 in the pot. 400 training places available. APT Films

The Script Factory
The Script Factories
A to Z of Development
£30,000.00
April 2005
Scene by Scene Development Training is a series of self contained modules covering a range of subjects that are relevant and useful to all those who work with writers and scripts. From detailed screenplay analysis to market and budgetary considerations, these modules work as one-off stimulants or, as a package - as a comprehensive exploration of the skills and practices used in development in the UK today. 200 training places available. The Script Factory

ACE
The ACE Producers' Training and Networking Programme
£160,760.00
July 2004
ACE offeres a pan-European, long term training programme on development through feature projects, designed for independent producers, as well as an access to a mutually supportive Network of 140 European feature producers. The ACE project is both a professional development centre and a meeting/forum place for independent producers in Europe to share experiences and make co-productions. 30 training places are available. ACE

NFTS (National Film & Television School)
The National Film and TV School Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Post Production
£328,745.00
July 2004
This annual 15-month Post Graduate Diploma course is aimed at those who want to work within the digital post-production arena, in post-production supervision, camera, design, animation, editing and visual effects. Students will learn and understand the philosophy and technique of digital post production, so as to use the technology to its best effect. 6 training places available. NFTS

NFTS (National Film & Television School)
The National Film and TV School Postgraduate Diploma in Special Effects
£328,245.00
July 2004
This innovative 15-month Post Graduate Diploma course is aimed at those who want to work in special effects, from cutting edge digital compositing techniques to traditional model-making and animatronics. 6 training places available. NFTS

Qwerty Films Ltd
Skillset's Inside Pictures
£256,850.00
June 2005
Skillsets Inside Pictures was an intensive film business training and development programme which took 14 ambitious and talented producers and executives to the heart of the global industry and gave them the inside picture of the international business of making movies. 14 training places were available. Inside Pictures

Arista Development
Skillset Screenwriting Entry Level 1
£70,000.00
April 2005
A 12 month initiative which took 14 new UK screenwriters through a process of professional development - building screenwriting craft skills, developing a film or TV proposal or script into a marketable property, and equipping them to work as a professional in the British Film & TV industry. 7 training places were available. Arista Development

Lighthouse Arts and Training Ltd
Skillset Screenwriting Entry Level 2
£70,000.00
April 2005
This programme provided eight promising new screenwritiers with script development support and industry networking opportunities through individual mentoring and a series of five intensive residential workshops incorporating group feedback sessions and taught seminars on various aspects of screenwriting craft and film business over a twelve month period. 8 training places were available. www.lighthouse.org.uk

IWC Media Ltd
Coming Up 2005
£60,135.00
May 2005
'Coming Up' in its fifth year was the only talent scheme in the UK for new writers and directors with a guaranteed network TV broadcast. With 'Coming Up' C4 continued its commitment to innovation and esperimentation in storytelling and new authorship in television drama. Coming Up's aim was to develop the career of filmakers who could take this rare opportunity to experiment. 25 training places were availavble. Coming Up

Media Business School
MD - Marketing and Distribution
£30,508.00
May 2005
MD was a course on the marketing and distribution of theatrical feature films. The programme provided a unique opportunity for participants to learn and benefit from UIP's business structure, experience and methodology, and to gain personal insights into the film industry from a truly international perspective. 22 training places were available. Media Business School

The Actors Professional Centre Ltd.
The Actors Centre Film Lab
£29,978.00
March 2005
An innovatory programme of skills development. The Actors Centre Film Lab brought together carefully chosen actors and directors, led by distinguished film practitioners, to explore particular areas of the craft in a high level exchange of skills and creative insights without the pressure to deliver a finished product. 100 training places were available. The Actors Professional Centre Ltd

 The Script Factory
Write Now – Script Development Training for Directors and 1st Assistant Directors Script Reading training for Publicity, Sales & Marketing personnel
£44,384.00
December 2004
This programme of cross sector training modules was designed to give participants practical and inspiring workshops, led by industry practitioners, in the processes and practices of good development, including script reading. The modules covered a range of topics and were designed for participants to select the one/s relevant to their own continuing professional development. 312 training places were available across the programme. The Script Factory

Berlinale Talent Campus
£85,000.00
December 2004
The 55th Berlin International Film Festival invited 500 emerging filmmakers from over 80 countries around the world to apply to the third Berlin Talent Campus. Participants had the opportunity to meet and learn from renowned professionals from all cultures and generations. 500 training places were available. Berlin Talent Campus

VET
Final Cut Pro Editing
£13,380.00
July 2004
Funding to run a 2 day course providing a solid introduction to operations on Final Cut Pro (version 3) for people who knew the editing process but need to learn to use this particular software. The course ran 10 times. 40 training places were available. VET

FDI (Film Design International)
Art Direction Training
£64,680.00
July 2004
FDI ran 11 Art Direction Training courses throughout the year on a roll-on basis with participants starting on either a Monday or Wednesday of any week. Each one-month course trained a maximum of 8 freelancers, one-to-one, in the necessary skills they needed to work and progress in the art department. 77 training places were available Film Design International

Qwerty Films Ltd
Skillset's Inside Pictures
£294,700.00
June 2004
Skillset's Inside Pictures was a film business training programme for 14 UK film executives and producers. Training took place in London and Los Angeles including: seminars; group discussions; networking events; one-to-one training sessions and a hands-on practical project. 14 training places were available. Inside Pictures