Dr Lisa Kelly and Dr Katherine Champion held the second workshop in the RSE-funded series ‘Shaping Scotland's Talent: Change, Flexibility and New Pathways in the Screen Industries’.  The event ‘Identifying and Nurturing Talent: Best Practice and New Pathways in the Screen Industries’ was held at The Mews, NASUWT, in Edinburgh.  The workshop brought together invited speakers from across academia, policymaking and industry to discuss the role of higher education and development bodies in nurturing talent, best practice and innovative approaches aimed at identifying and nurturing talent and new digital pathways.  The workshop began with a keynote lecture entitled ‘Global Opportunities and Cautionary Tales: Protecting Scottish Talent from a Precarious Future’ from Dr Kevin Sanson of the Carsey-Wolf Center, UC Santa Barbara.  The day also featured a screening of the new short film ‘Exchange and Mart’ by Martin Clark and Cara Connolly. The film was selected for this year’s Sundance Film Festival and won the Glasgow Short Film Festival Scottish Audience Award.  On the day there was representation from Creative Scotland and UWS’s Creative Media Academy alongside specific talent initiatives, such as BECTU’s Stepping Up for existing talent and Digicult’s slate of Scottish Shorts. There were a number of international comparators, including New Danish Screen and a groundbreaking digital filmmaking programme based in New York in which 20 filmmakers make 20 films over 20 weeks with masterclasses, development workshops and production bootcamp. 

Shaping Scotland's Talent - Programme and Attendees Workshop 2

Workshop 1 ‘Conceptualising Talent: Privileging Change and Flexibility Onscreen and Off’ was held in March in Glasgow and brought together invited speakers from across academia, policymaking and industry to discuss conceptualisations of talent, issues around diversity and stimulating talent in the nations and regions. 

First published: 4 June 2014

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