LONDON: Film AlUla, the Royal Commission for AlUla鈥檚 film agency, has partnered with the UK鈥檚 industry-led Creative Media Skills Institute to host exclusive training for aspiring film industry professionals.
The two organizations have teamed up to give 25 local trainees from AlUla the possibility to attend a 10-day hands-on boot camp led by award-winning film professionals.
The training program, which will be held in AlUla, 黑料社区鈥檚 northwestern region, will prepare talents for employment in production, assistant directing, and the art, locations, costume, make-up and hair departments.
The training will be led by award-winning industry professionals including Ailie Smith, CEO of the Creative Media Skills Institute, who is known for her work on iconic titles such as 鈥淗arry Potter,鈥 鈥淧rince of Persia,鈥 鈥淭roy,鈥 鈥淐old Mountain,鈥 and 鈥淢ad Max,鈥 and聽Iain Smith, a BAFTA-winning film producer who was awarded the Order of the British Empire title for his services to the film industry.
The boot camp will also feature Terry Bamber, an assistant director who worked on the films 鈥101聽Dalmatians鈥 and聽鈥102 Dalmatians鈥 with Micky Moore and Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, and David Anderson, a director renowned for organizing outreach initiatives that offer free filmmaking instruction to young people from underprivileged backgrounds.
The inaugural vocational film industry boot camp, which is scheduled to run from Feb. 26 for 10 days, combines classroom study and hands-on, pragmatic workshops hosted in the scenery of AlUla, home to Hegra, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The boot camp is part of a series of initiatives supported by Film AlUla to聽build a workforce and attract inward investors to AlUla.聽
Building on the enthusiasm for the Hollywood feature film 鈥淜andahar,鈥 which was filmed in AlUla聽in December 2021, the Royal Commission for AlUla鈥檚 film agency hopes to boost the growth and productivity of the film industry in the region by meeting the higher-level skills required to accelerate聽the flourishing sector in 黑料社区.
