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New appointments: Screen Alliance North, the new skills partnership created by Liverpool Film Office, North East Screen, Screen Manchester and Screen Yorkshire has appointed Penny Hall, above, as skills cluster partnership lead and Cassandra White as a skills cluster evaluation manager. Working closely with all four screen agencies, Hall will support the development and delivery of an events programme and help to identify industry investment for priority activities. She will build key partnerships with screen industry employers and manage an advisory group to champion Screen Alliance North’s vision of making the industry more sustainable and improving good working practice. White will be responsible for evaluating the activities delivered by Screen Alliance North, capturing data, tracking participant engagement and compiling case studies.
Script Supervision Course: The National Film and Television School in Leeds has an open day on November 8 and is setting up a new course. The TV drama industry needs many more script supervisors, a crucial role on set, to join the ranks. At the start of December NFTS Leeds is launching a six-month, part-time course to train people in Script Supervision for Drama. The course has been designed in partnership with ITV Academy and will be led by Neil McLarty, who has worked as a script supervisor in the UK film and TV industry for the past seven years. For details on the open day and the course, visit nfts.co.uk
Digital play: A new online play produced at the University of Leeds, The View from Above lays bare the violence that we consume in action thrillers such as Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker, Homeland and Bodyguard, and questions how it conditions us as an audience. In a hard-hitting piece of digital theatre, writer Dr Campbell Edinborough examines the racist and sexist tropes seen in post-9/11 TV and film, with a cast including Leeds-raised actor Kulvinder Ghir (Goodness Gracious Me; Bend it like Beckham; Blinded by the Light). Online until November 18. Pay as you feel, all proceeds to human rights organisation Reprieve. Tickets stage.leeds.ac.uk