Be tutored by the Sweetshop via the YDA's mentorship initiative
Production company the Sweetshop and the Young Director Award are calling for entries for their 2019/20 mentorship programme.
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Last year the YDA joined forces with Sweetshop to create a mentorship prize allowing one lucky director to access the skill, expertise and encouragement of a global production company.
The prize teamed 2018 Film School Gold-winner, Bernd Faass (Tears in Heaven), with Managing Director and Executive Producer of Sweetshop UK and Europe Spencer Dodd, and Sweetshop director Mark Albiston, whom over the last 12 months have been in regular contact with Faass to develop a project for social change.
Sweetshop will pair the mentoree with an executive producer and director for advise and shadowing, script and treatment development, and pitching their film.
Over the course of the mentorship, Faass developed a script which highlights the shocking but generally unknown world of Clickfarms – enterprises employing people to repeatedly click on online content to artificially inflate traffic and engagement, a phenomenon he calls, “one of the most disturbing expressions of humanity’s strive for attention".
Directors who were either a YDA winner or on the shortlist of the 2019 show, and who are not currently signed by a production company, are invited to apply for the mentorship with their Changing The World Frame By Frame film ideas.
Changing the World Frame by Frame invites young filmmakers to harness their creativity and use the power of images to convey a strong story and a message to the world. Both the Sweetshop's mentorship programme and the YDA's Changing the World Frame by Frame category aim to help facilitate future initiatives for global social responsibility ideas and content.
Applicants to the mentorship must answer two questions to be considered for a place:
Firstly, they must explain their film/script idea for Changing the World Frame By Frame.
Secondly, they must relay what they think a mentorship would do for their career.
Applicants can do both of those things by sending an email to kneill@thesweetshop.tv
The successful applicant will need to be prepared to follow and deliver to a production schedule. In turn, Sweetshop will pair the mentoree with an executive producer and director for advise and shadowing, script and treatment development, and pitching their film brands to score funding for the ultimate production on the film.
Applications will close on 30 August 2019.
