Edinburgh International Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is one of the largest festivals in the UK and has a long established relationship with Skillset.
As both a festival of discovery and a place where continuing professional development (CPD) training occurs, Skillset's partnership with EIFF has flourished. Our work with EIFF includes promoting a strong new talent strand as well as training for established professionals working in features, or moving from one genre or specialism to another.
Find out here how you can learn more about up-and-coming talent, how to contact them and the types of schemes we support.
Trailblazers
2009 marked the third year of Trailblazers, a joint initiative between the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) and Skillset showcasing new UK filmmaking talent.
Read MoreComing Up Scheme 2009
Coming Up is the only scheme in the UK which selects and commissions writers and directors who have no previous broadcast experience, to make ambitious, exciting and innovative new work. The scheme enables the writers and directors to make an original film drama with a guaranteed network broadcast on Channel 4.
Read MoreThe Directors Lab
Six emerging directors took part in an intensive, five-day professional feature film development programme at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF). Number 9 Films producer/director Stephen Woolley (Sounds Like Teen Spirit, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People) was the Patron of the Director's Lab for the second year running
Read MoreSkillset New Directors Award at EIFF 2009
Congratulations to Cary Joji Fukanaga, the winner of Skillset's New Directors Award at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009 for his debut feature film SIN NOMBRE, as Writer/Director.
Read MoreCinema Extreme 2009
Cinema Extreme is an established short film production scheme funded by the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and Film4 - a new training arm of this scheme took place in 2008/09, which ran alongside it. It was funded by Skillset's Film Skills Fund.
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