Working with Industry to reduce Inequality
British Academy Research
This higher education (HE) and industry collaboration tackles a dual need through meeting the UK film industry’s screenwriting skills gap by enabling those with mental ill-health and/or disabilities to join the industry. The UK film industry is booming. Nw Sky Studios in Elstree alone will create 3,000 jobs. Inward investment in the industry is £3 billion with the domestic industry matching this figure. The industry is struggling to find employees who have the necessary skills in screenwriting. This project analyses this opportunity through expanding the knowledge of mental health and disability in HE and the film industry advancing screenwriting quality and employment.
Film Submissions
If you are interested in joining our project or submitting a film to our YouTube Channel, please contact the project team at: contact@evolutionfilm.org
Treatment Submissions
If you are interested in submitting a treatment for us to review, please use the following form on the following page to send us the copy. Try to keep your documents to under 2mb, and please send only Pdf or Word files.
Screenplay Open Submission 2023 – July 4 to July 25
Please send a logline/half page treatment and short film script (max. 15 minutes) to jason.lee@dmu.ac.uk
This is an opportunity for new writers to break into the industry who have a disability and/or mental health issue.
For the right script this is a paid opportunity. We will only respond to those scripts that we might be interested in.
Evolution Film
Founded in 2022, Evolution Film aims to provide equal opportunities for people wanting to work in film and television who have a disability
Evolution Film, The Gateway
Leicester, LE1 9BH