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Work Experience/Internships

• Work experience at the CTVC production company
• Getintotheatre.org is an amazing resource where you can search by location for work experience as well as shows and courses.
• A new talent development scheme for young people which provides young filmmakers with bespoke training, work placements and mentoring.
• Work experience at ITV
• BskyB work experience
• ITV training and employment for talented individuals with disabilities.
• The Training Group offers exclusive TV work experience placements, opportunities and discounted training.
• There are placements available in just about every area of the BBC across the UK
• Shooting people has listings of events, training, courses, networking opportunities and jobs.
• Work experience at Channel 4
• Work experience at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
• The latest job vacancies at BAFTA, including work experience and freelance positions.
• The Sussex Internship Programme provides 100 short-term grant funded internships at a wide variety of games, web, software development, animation, TV, e-learning, music, film and advertising companies.

Funding/Courses/Training

• Skillset is the industry body, which supports skills and training for people and businesses to ensure the UK creative industries maintain there world-class position.
• Ideas Tap is a creative network and funding body for emerging arts talent, bringing young creative people together. and offering cash funding, opportunities and a portfolio to showcase your work,
• The Prince's Trust has a variety of funding. Up to £3,000 is available for young people to design set up a project that will benefit there local community.
• Grants are available each year for scriptwriting and filmmaking project through the young film fund for 15-19 year olds.
• ITV fixers is a major media campaign for 16-25 year olds. They help young people tackle the problems they care about by making films to be showcased on ITV's online channel.
• Umbro Industries aims to support creative energy in the manchester area and gives out £10,000 every three months to manchester based innovators.
• BBC 21CC resources and workshops
• The National Apprenticeship service offers apprenticeships in the creative and digital media industry.
• First Light Movies
• Directgov information about youth funds.
• Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation
• Leeds Film Academy
• ENYAN is a membership body designed to create connections throughout the diverse youth arts sector at national, regional and grass roots levels.

Hints/Tips/Other

• Big Societys Big Mouth is your chance to talk about what a big society means to you.
• BBC training has useful links to sites that should be useful if you are already working or hoping to work in the media.
• BBC College Of Production is a great resource with videos, articles and information film, television and radio.
• Mandy.com is an international film and TV directory where you can search for jobs and find training
• Production Base is a UK-Specific, industry news and job listings for TV and Film
• Production Base is a UK-Specific, industry news and job listings for TV and Film
• Prince's Trust
• Raindance - Advice on filmmaking
• Film London, supported by Skillset offers advice to filmmakers working on low budget feature films.
• Kick start your media career.
• Information and advice for young people
• Youth Unlimited
• Barbican Families

Film Festivals/Competitions

• Young Minds competition try's to find the pioneers, change-makers and leaders of tomorrow to take their place alongside the greatest minds and innovators of today
• Virgin Media shorts competition gives you a chance to win up to £30,000 and work with the UK film council.
• Depict can you do it in 90 seconds competition has been running since 1998, Winners gain priceless industry exposure and exclusive prizes.
• Reed 2011 short film competition
• Two days laughter competition is open to comedy films five minutes or shorter.
• Brit Films has a full list of film festivals running throughout the UK
• BT Big Voice runs a competition, film festival, educational resources and a film school.
• BFI future film festival
• Aesthetic is looking for filmmakers who are driving the genre of short film forward through inspirational and innovative works.
• The Commonwealth Vision Awards challenge filmmakers to make a short film under 3 mins long
• The Young Film Critics competition aims to empower young people of all ages to become their own critics of film.
• London Children's Film Festival
• BFI London International Film Festival
• East End Film Festival
• The HighTide Festival
• Exposures - Student and Moving Image Festival
• Co-Operative Filmmakers Festival
• Cornwall Film Festival
• Bradford Animation Festival
• Leeds Young People's Film Festival
• Future Shorts
• Showcomotion - Young People's Film Festival
• Bradford International Film Festival
• Animated Exeter Festival
• Wild Screen Festival
• Bram Stoker Film Festival
• BBC Blast has partnered up with BAFTA to give you the opportunity to learn the skills needed to make TV happen. You could win win £3000 to make a TV programme and have it shown on BBC.
• Berwick-Upon-Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival
• Animex - International Festival of Animation & Computer Games