NEWS: ITV studios partner with Media Trust to launch early-stage talent mentoring programme

We are delighted to hear the news that ITV Studios have partnered with the Media Trust to launch an early-stage talent mentoring programme. This programme is another example of where mentoring support is being used to help address the lack of diversity in specific industries. This programme will form part of ITV's acceleration programme which it launched last July.

ITV Studios has exclusively partnered with Media Trust to launch the Media Trust and ScreenSkills' Early-Stage Talent Mentoring Programme. The programme will see 24 early-stage mentees looking to progress their career in behind the camera roles in film and TV matched with industry mentors from across ITV Studios.

The six-month programme matches one mentor to two mentees and, as well as one on one mentoring, the entire cohort of mentees and mentors will benefit from professional development and skills enhancement workshops, peer-to-peer learning and networking, all delivered online. In addition, there will be panel discussions during which they will hear from senior executives within the industry including Pat Younge, Co-Founder and Co-MD of Cardiff Productions and Non-Executive Director of ITV Studios, and Jasmine Dotiwala, Head of Youth Engagement at Media Trust, D&I specialist, producer & broadcaster, who will share their extensive experience of mentorship within the TV industry.

The programme is run by Media Trust with support from ScreenSkills using National Lottery funds awarded by the BFI as part of its Future Film Skills programme.

The ITV mentors work across a variety of behind the camera roles, including producer, assistant director, production coordinator, technical support engineer and camera operator and are based across ITV Studios locations in Manchester, Leeds and London.

The mentees are drawn from groups that are traditionally under-represented in the screen industries, in particular women, Black, Asian, minority & ethnic and disabled talent.

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