ScreenSkills are returning as associate partners for this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival. Now in its 45th year, the festival offers more than 60 keynote speeches, debates and masterclasses alongside networking opportunities for industry professionals from across the globe.
The festival offers an opportunity to support the booming UK TV industry and highlight the vital work of the screen workforce that help bring great television to life.
Kaye Elliott, ScreenSkills Director of High-end Television, will be taking part in The Big TV Talent Crunch panel discussion alongside Christine Healy, Chair of the HETV Skills Council. The event, sponsored by ScreenSkills, will explore how producers can find and keep the best talent while adapting to a new working landscape.
Elsewhere, an award ceremony, hosted by comedian Sophie Duker, will be held at the festival, celebrating the best channel, productions, presenter, actors and production companies of the year.
This year’s keynote MacTaggart lecture will be hosted by journalist and broadcaster Emily Maitlis. She follows recent speakers Armando Iannucci, Jon Snow, Michaela Coel and David Olusoga.
Last year’s speaker, screenwriter and playwright Jack Thorne, used his speech to discuss the issue of the treatment and representation of the disabled community within television. He later formed the pressure group, Underlying Health Condition, to address accessibility in the industry and, in collaboration with ScreenSkills, implemented the training of new accessibility coordinators.