Free screen career advice for young people

Education charity Into Film and Northern Ireland Screen have launched ‘ScreenWorks Online’ a series of 15 video tutorials with feedback from industry professionals aimed at stimulating interest in a range of disciplines from prosthetics to visual effects and storyboarding.

ScreenWorks co-ordinator Sean Boyle said that while the global pandemic has brought a halt to major film and television productions, Into Film and Northern Ireland Screen were continuing to plan for a time when work resumes.

“ScreenWorks Online will enable greater numbers of young people to become aware of the exciting opportunities in the screen industry. After watching the tutorial, they will then be set a task which our industry professionals will critique, giving them individual feedback on their work. We hope that the young people who participate in the virtual tutorials will join the workshops when they restart,” he said.

The first workshop to go online on Documentary Filmmaking has been created by director Brian Henry Martin: “It was an honour to present an online documentary tutorial for ScreenWorks, who are such a vibrant and vital enabler for the next generation of filmmakers across Northern Ireland. And at this most difficult time, I was particularly delighted to offer young people the opportunity to devise their own documentaries at home”.” Go to www.intofilm.org/screenworksonline