Naman Ramachandran ScreenCraft Works, a new virtual community, has revealed a mentoring scheme for under-represented production and post-production talent to enhance their careers via international connections.
The ScreenCraft Works International Mentoring Scheme will provide structured career development for marginalized craft talent, matching a mentee with a mentor from a different country, to share knowledge and experience, widen employment and peer-to-peer networks and bring new cultural perspectives to local and international productions, virtually.
Elizabeth McIntyre, former CEO and festival director of the U.K.’s Sheffield Doc/Fest and Rebecca del Tufo, previously programmer at independent community cinema Saffron Screen, are co-directors of the scheme.
McIntyre and del Tufo said: “With new, dynamic flexible-working and virtual production cultures, ScreenCraft Works aims to widen access to healthy career development in those craft roles which can be conducted remotely and internationally.
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