EXCLUSIVE: A former Skins star, a Criminal Defence Solicitor and a TV writer have been selected for ITV, training body ScreenSkills and The Responder producer Dancing Ledge Productions’ third…
Giri/Haji’s The scheme has been running for three years and the 2022 edition will be fully funded by ScreenSkills’ High-end TV Skills Fund.
The budding writers are given a non-refundable bursary to write a pilot episode for their own original TV series. The mentor will give feedback through the writing process, provide the benefit of their expertise, offer encouragement and help place the project with a production company and/or broadcaster.in the late-noughties and has since studied psychology and creative writing and moved into filmmaking.
ScreenSkills Director of High-end Television Kaye Elliott said:”We are really proud that the original investment of the High-end TV Skills Fund – entirely supported by industry contributions – into talents such as Tony Schumacher and Daniel Brierley has proved so successful and we are really excited to see what great shows emerge from the new round of mentoring partnerships.”
Dancing Ledge CEO Laurence Bowen added:“Nurturing emerging talent is absolutely at the core of what we do at Dancing Ledge and it so exciting to see the real impact this scheme is having with the support of ITV and ScreenSkills.”