Landmark BFI UK Skills Review Calls for $127M Investment and 21,000 Additional Crews by 2025; Claims 1% of Production Budgets Used for Education

An additional მილი104 million ($127 million) and 20,000 full-time jobs will be needed in the UK’s high-end film and television (HETV) sectors over the next three years to sustain demand for projects in the sector. BFI.

The agency released a long-awaited skills overview today, and the top recommendation was to spend at least 1% of its entire production budget on training to mitigate the growing skills crisis.

The review, accepted by key stakeholders in the HETV and film industry, says that while production costs have increased over the past four years, საჭიროა must be spent and more than 20,770 full-time positions created to meet demand by 2025. . £5.6 billion ($6.8 billion) over the years. A similar report released last week by UK education authority ScreenSkills, which predicted that cinema and HETV could reach 7.7 billion ($9.4 billion) by 2025, predicted roughly the same amount of work would be required, but a massive მილი300. million pounds ($368 million) were required. investment.

Projects are returning to production following the COVID-19-induced shutdown, according to a BFI review, and UK industry is now at near full capacity, with a devastating impact on supply, diversity and worker health.

If these issues are not addressed, BFI expressed concern that the “quality of work” in the industry could be threatened, which could “damage the UK’s reputation as being home to one of the most talented and sought-after teams in the world”. world “world”.

The review points to a lack of skills at all levels, posing a particular threat to the UK indie film industry and putting pressure on already tight budgets.

The competent authority will immediately begin work on implementing other recommendations, including a detailed team gap identification service that reflects and measures availability and demand, creates job description templates achievable by products at contract stage, provides and oversees career advice and guidance. . Different composition of the workforce.

These steps come after the review found the industry as:

• Industry-led, localized approach to education investment
• Requires a more formal approach to recruitment, workplace management and career development
• It is necessary to build stronger bridges with the industry of other sectors
• Lack of extensive professional knowledge and road awareness.
• Ask for better data to support policies and actions.

Several senior UK officials, including the BBC’s Tim Davis, endorsed the findings and said: “Although we have a global media industry, we should not take it lightly. We all need to ensure that British creativity continues to shine on the world stage.”

ITV CEO Carolyn McCall called the report’s findings “an accurate and disturbing picture of current and future skills shortages”, and Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon said “broadcasters and partners in the creative industry must work together to address the gap.” ”

On the creative side, sharp blind Stepping up efforts to revive Birmingham’s vexing TV industry, developer Stephen Knight said: “Quality [of British TV] It hasn’t changed, but the amount of content produced has passed,” he said. “The industry urgently needs more teams, which means people need to be trained.”

And Sita Kumar, CEO of ScreenSkills, has called for a “Long Term Sustainable Skills Strategy and Plan: A Unified Approach”, acknowledging that unified start-up funding and startups are not about what to do if the UK wants to take advantage of it. “The potential for even greater success in film and television.”