Detailed study aims "to secure UK’s future as world film centre"

Stewart Till, Deputy Chairman of both the UK Film Council and Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the Audio Visual Industries, has launched a major push to ensure that the UK Film Industry has the skills needed to produce the cutting edge features of the future.
The most in-depth study of film skills ever produced, the Developing UK Film Talent report, commissioned by Skillset and the Film Council, is part of a two-stage strategy to build a sustainable UK film industry based on the highest level of skills.
The second stage is the establishment of a Film Skills Action Group made up of high-level representatives from across the industry. The Group is to prepare a wide-ranging and comprehensive training strategy as part of the drive to make the UK’s film workforce world leaders in their fields.
Till said: “We are an industry whose primary asset is its people. Not only must we attract the brightest and the best of the new generation, but we must hold on to them. And the only long term way to do that and maintain our competitive edge is to develop the very highest level creative and technical skills which will allow individuals and the UK film industry as a whole, to prosper and grow.”
The Film Skills Action Group includes representatives from Paramount Pictures, Working Title Films Ltd, Applecross Productions, Odeon, the Cine Guilds of Great Britain, the Producers Alliance in Cinema and Television (PACT), and Cinesite, alongside staff from the Film Council and Skillset.
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