Essential skills for freelancers

Alison Grade from Mission Accomplished and Perjit Aujla, freelance Series Producer share insights, strategies, and practical tips to enable you to manage your finances, find work and develop your freelance career.

Speakers:

Alison Grade describes her key skill as transforming creative ideas into a business reality. She accomplishes this with the films she produces, the creative entrepreneurs she mentors, SMEs and freelancers she advises and in her Penguin published book, The Freelance Bible. Alison has an unique skillset in that she has formal academic training (INSEAD MBA); has worked at senior level in many media companies; is an entrepreneur who has established several businesses and is a Nesta accredited Creative Enterprise trainer and mentor. She currently sits on the Creative Industries Federation UK Council as well as the Digital Leadership Board for the Centre for New Midlands. She brings her passion, knowledge and experience with her in all the work she does.

Perjit Aujla has 13+ years in factual TV as an RTS award-winning Series Producer, an Edit Producer and a former Head of Development. She has won commissions from Channel 4, Channel 5 and worked on programming as diverse as a Joe Wicks series for 4OD to the Bafta-nominated Cbeebies series Maddie's Do You Know. 

Based in Leamington Spa, Perjeet is a champion of the regions, producing and chairing local events on behalf of Women in Film and Television and RTS Midlands, where she is also on the committee. She has supported diverse off-screen talent via. Creative Access and the Channel 4 Trainee Scheme.  

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This event is part of an afternoon of events hosted by ScreenSkills and BBC Production Unlocked at W5, The Odyssey, 2 Queens Quay, Belfast.

Book into our other sessions below:

• 12:15 - 13:00 - ScreenSkills CV Surgeries
• 1300 – 14:00 - Freelancer: Are you feeling it?

Who it's for

This event is aimed at early career professionals, career changers, industry returners and those interested in finding out more about freelancing in the screen industries in Northern Ireland.

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Contact information

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Email: USF@screenskills.com