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A camera operator in a support rig films two people through a car windscreen on a stage.

Pillar 05 · Access and opportunity

From first day to head of department.

The barriers that decide who works in screen are rarely about ability. We remove them at every level.

Careers

Chapter 1

The whole ladder

Industry support: Rupert Hornstein ACO 2:10Our film

Access isn't only for new entrants. Someone mid-career may need a way to step up a grade. Someone senior may be one of very few people like them in the room.

Three doors

A trainee operates a gimbal camera in a café while a mentor and group watch.Starting outFree training and placements on working units. A camera technician in a workshop of camera cars and grip kit.Mid-level crewTime in a grade or tool you haven't held yet, with mentoring. A camera operator lines up a shot on a stage under magenta light.Industry professionalsTest new technology, mentor, and shape sets that work for everyone.

Who it is for

Priced out
Unpaid days are not an option
Faith
Nobody asks twice about prayer, food, dress or fasting
Disability
Neurodivergent and Disabled people, and the organisations that support them
Outside London
Off the film-school route, and career changers
Mid and senior
Underrepresented in their department
  • A group of women gather around a cinema camera during a hands-on workshop.

    A hands-on camera workshop

  • Community and faith representatives on a terrace.

    Community and faith representatives on a terrace

  • A technician shows a stabilised camera to a trainee in a kitchen.

    A stabilised camera, explained one to one

  • A group of people pose together in a café.

    A group in a café after a session

  • People talk beside a lectern in a formal hall.

    Talking beside a lectern in a formal hall

  • A training group gathers round a long table in a café as a scene is set up.

    A training group sets up a scene

Community and faith representatives stand on stone steps.

Faith Inclusion

Faith on set, planned at prep. Women of faith: the Story to Screen Lab, in partnership with Screen Sisters CIC.

The Faith Inclusion Toolkit

Watch: ways in

Find your way in

Tell us on the application what would stop you taking a place, and we sort it before the first day.

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