Action!

Welcome to Action!

Liverpool Film Office’s skills development programme

Over the past 3 years our Action! training scheme has delivered new entrant training courses across all the main industry skill areas (Production, Art Dept, Make Up, Costume, Assistant Directors, Locations, Camera, Lighting, Sound, Grip) as well as hosting online training opportunities with major industry partners to support personal development and share information on sustainability, inclusion and good work practice in the industry. We have enjoyed hosting industry insight ‘masterclasses’ including open Q&A sessions with high profile feature film and high end TV contributors.

Following on from the training, we have brokered over 225 paid work opportunities for new entrant freelancers and co-funded 46 trainee placements of 4 or more weeks with 22 productions.

Action! is an innovative, free-to-access skills programme to build a stronger, diverse screen sector in the Liverpool City Region.

Liverpool Film office partnered with North East Screen, Screen Manchester and Screen Yorkshire in 2023 to form the largest of the BFI’s skills clusters and was awarded £2.3 million through the BFI National Lottery funding. The partnership’s aims have been to make the screen sector more accessible and representative and to build a thriving and skilled workforce across the North of England.

Due to oversubscription to the scheme, we have paused new registrations for the time being.

Please keep an eye on our Socials and our website for updates on the Action! scheme.