The organisations worked together to host a screening and careers panel at Dinnington High School for Discover! Creative Careers Week
Year 9 children at Dinnington High School had the chance to find out more about careers in the screen and creative industries as part of a Discover Creative Careers Week event at the school. Sheffield DocFest hosted a screening at the school as part of their Growing Pains programme, a series of international documentary film screenings curated by Chloë and Cait - two young film programmers from Rotherham, who formed part of the panel who discussed the film. ScreenSkills’ were also there to give short presentation about careers in screen and the routes in.
The event represented a unique collaboration: ScreenSkills is the lead delivery partner for Discover! Creative Careers, and also worked in partnership with the Adobe Foundation to put on the event. It acted as a great pre-cursor to a series of events in 2025 when Rotherham will become the UK's first Children's Capital of Culture. CCOC is a bold demonstration of Rotherham's commitment to empowering children and young people to have a voice and play an active role in the borough's future.
The film being shown at the event was Eternal Father, a short documentary directed by Ömer Sami about Nasar, a father who, having started a family later in life, fears he won't live to see his children grow up and decides to be cryonically frozen after death, hoping to reunite in the future.
Margaret Burgin Head of Careers at ScreenSkills, who is a Sheffield resident, said: “It’s great to be able to work with local partners in to give more information to young people about the range of careers in screen and the creative industries."
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