08 February 2011
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Film
Guiding Lights, the British film industry’s highest profile mentoring programme, is now accepting applications. Twelve screenwriters, directors and producers will be selected to take part in the fourth round of the scheme, due to launch in June 2011.
Guiding Lights supports and develops promising UK-based filmmakers through high-level mentoring complemented by a range of training and networking activities. Successful applicants will each be matched with a well-established film industry professional who will provide advice and guidance over a 9-month period. During this time a number of face-to-face meetings will take place with phone or email contact in between as appropriate.
Alongside the one-to-one mentoring, participants will benefit from a number of industry training and networking events, including during the Galway Film Fleadh and London Film Festival. Further access to high-level filmmakers and business professionals will be facilitated by an online networking facility.
Writers are eligible to apply if they:
- Are a UK resident
- Have had at least one piece of work produced OR optioned. This can include shorts, features, TV drama, novels and plays for the theatre or radio
- Have written a minimum of one feature-length script (this does not necessarily need to have been produced)
- Have at least one other feature-length script in development.
Guiding Lights is run by Lighthouse as part of ‘A Bigger Future’, the UK film skills strategy set up by Skillset and the UK Film Council to address skills development across all job roles in film. The scheme is majority funded by the Skillset Film Skills Fund, supported by the National Lottery through the UK Film Council and the film industry through the Skills Investment Fund.
The closing date for applications is 2pm, Friday 11 March 2011.
Full details can be found on the Guiding Lights website.
