EXCLUSIVE: Reclaim The Frame has collaborated pinch Sony Pictures Television to motorboat Back successful nan Frame, a caller six-month talent improvement programme for women movie board and producers returning to activity aft a profession break.
Applications for nan programme are now open. It is free to use for and participate in. The programme is unfastened to what is described arsenic knowledgeable UK-based women and marginalised gender board and producers moving crossed fabrication and documentary movie who are returning to nan manufacture aft clip away.
Running from September 2026 to March 2027, Back successful nan Frame will characteristic 12 UK-based participants done a programme of 3 in-person labs successful London, 2 online manufacture sessions and one-to-one mentoring. The programme will beryllium led by Reclaim The Frame Exec Director Melanie Iredale and shaper Camilla Wren. Organisers person said nan programme is designed to “support master re-entry done manufacture recalibration, employability support, authorities education, adjacent learning, mentoring and system group coaching.”
“We are consistently seeing knowledgeable filmmakers time off nan manufacture not because they deficiency ambition aliases talent, but because nan structures astir moving life do not support return,” Melanie Iredale, Director of Reclaim The Frame, said successful a statement.
“This programme is astir changing that – by creating a way backmost into nan industry, and a adjacent support web on nan way.”
Research from Carers UK, BECTU and Raising Films precocious recovered that complete half of nan workforce has knowledgeable periods retired of work, and that location are presently astir 5.8 cardinal unpaid carers successful nan UK, pinch astir 60% being women.
Sony Pictures Entertainment’s backing comes done nan SPT Creative Diversity Fund, which was established successful 2021 by Sony Pictures Television’s International Production section to support nan recruitment, development, support and retention of under-represented talent wrong nan tv industry.