ScreenSkills is returning as an associate partner at this year's Edinburgh TV Festival. Taking place from 22-25 August, the festival brings together the TV industry for four days of events, discussions and speeches that tackle the important issues across all areas of the industry.
ScreenSkills CEO Seetha Kumar and Head of Unscripted and Children’s TV Sarah Joyce will be in attendance alongside members of the High-end TV team cementing new relationships, sharing knowledge and discussing areas of focus with industry partners.
On 23 August, the High-end TV Skills Fund sponsors the panel discussion Should I Stay, or Should I Go? How to Champion and Retain Talent in Uncertain Times. Barry Ryan, Chair of the High-end TV Skills Fund and Kaye Elliott, ScreenSkills’ Director of High-end TV, will join four industry professionals to discuss how to develop and attract talent to ensure a skilled workforce is retained and grown during the current issues facing the sector.
Speaking of the festival and ScreenSkills involvement, Kaye Elliott said: “The Edinburgh TV Festival offers a great opportunity for colleagues and professionals to come together and discuss the successes and challenges of our industry. With production companies and our workforce based across the whole of the UK it’s rare that we’re offered a chance to really sit down as a unit and truly focus on the future and needs of TV.
"As ScreenSkills and the High-end TV Skills Fund, we’re hugely pleased to return as associate partners and take part in a panel that welcomes experienced television professionals to address some of the wider concerns about developing, and more pressingly, retain talent. We hope to see as many as possible there."
Speakers at this year’s festival include writers Jesse Armstrong and Sally Wainwright as well as winner of this year’s Outstanding Achievement Award, Claudia Winkleman. Broadcaster and documentarian Louis Theroux will deliver the keynote MacTaggart Lecture with actor, writer and comedian Meera Syal closing the festival with the Alternative MacTaggart on Friday 25 August.
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