BBC Introducing: Now & Next is a talent development scheme that will nurture and showcase emerging creative voices, as well as offer established artists a chance to try something new through a series of collaborative artists’ film commissions. Applications are now open for a series of 20 new short film commissions that show collaborations between artists and filmmakers, new and established.
Expanding on current BBC initiatives that support new talent, such as BBC Introducing, BBC Writersroom and The Social, BBC Introducing: Now & Next aims to support Scotland-based artists from a wide range of disciplines (visual arts, moving image, dance, spoken word, theatre) to realise their ideas in high-quality short artists’ films.
Over the course of one year, BBC Introducing: Now & Next, in partnership with Creative Scotland and LUX Scotland, will commission 20 new pieces of collaborative work.
The films will be published by the BBC on television or digital platforms such as BBC iPlayer, BBC Scotland’s social channels and BBC websites (dependent upon the work and the specific brief). LUX Scotland will be delivering the project on behalf of BBC Scotland and Creative Scotland, and will offer a package of support to the successful artists.
LUX Scotland will issue three commissioning calls over 12 months. These calls are open to all creative practitioners from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, currently living in Scotland.
Each call/brief will be focused around a particular publication platform and/or a theme. The first call will be around BBC arts platform Loop.
For more information on the brief click here
The deadline is Sunday 16 December 2018 at 11:59.