EXCLUSIVE: The British Unbiased Movie Awards (BIFAs) is launching a second iteration of its Springboard programme for 2025, supporting UK-based filmmakers engaged on their second movie.
Working from Could 2025 to February 2026, BIFA Springboard will help as much as 30 administrators, producers and writers. It’s going to provide technical {and professional} coaching, mentoring, networking and entry to sources to higher equip contributors for trade challenges.
It’s supported by Prime Video, as a part of its Prime Video Pathway initiative, a variety of collaborations with trade companions to help the event, reskilling and upskilling of freelancers to assist guarantee new entrants have pathways to the trade.
Extra help comes from the ScreenSkills Movie Abilities Fund, with additional help from Movie Funds Worldwide.
The scheme will run alongside the Springboard: Style scheme, which chosen its 14 contributors final month.
BIFA Springboard is open for purposes now, with a deadline of Could 5, 2025.
“In an trade the place solely a minority of first time writers, producers and administrators go on to make a sophomore function, Springboard’s objective is to help the following wave of British filmmakers to be bold, pondering in the direction of long run, visionary careers with world impacts,” stated a BIFA assertion.
