Professional training Each year MEDIA supports more than 60 international professional training programmes which teach industry skills ranging from marketing to script development and new technologies to finance. 2011 saw six UK training providers successfully secure MEDIA money for their initiatives, including a new course, Marketing Movies Online Labs, run by Diversity in Visual Arts. Organisation
Training scheme
Diversity in Visual Arts
Marketing Movies Online Labs
40,000
Independent Cinema Office
Developing Your Film Festival
39,287
National Film and Television School Inside Pictures 2012 Peaceful Fish Productions
Seize the Media
80,000
The Pixel Lab: The Cross-Media Workshop Transmedia Next
Developing Your Film Festival received MEDIA Continuous Training funiding in 2011. Image courtesy of ICO
212,716
Closing the Gap: Investment for 360° Content
Power to the Pixel
Award (€)
The Independent Cinema Office works to strengthen and support independent cinemas and film festivals, and MEDIA support has been invaluable for enabling us to expand our reach internationally. Developing Your Film Festival brings together 40 film festival professionals with their peers from across Europe to share best practice, inspire new ideas, foster a culture of collaboration and initiate long-term working partnerships for the future. MEDIA funding is an essential element which allows this to happen. Tilly Walnes, Head of Exhibitor Development, Independent Cinema Office (ICO)
Power to the Pixel’s Pixel Lab received MEDIA Continuous Training funding in 2011. © Peter Himsel
210,000 49,294 631,297
€631,297 Total MEDIA professional training funding invested in UK courses in 2011
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