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Opportunity | Channel 4 joins forces with NFTS to fund filmmaker bursaries for diverse talent

June 24, 2016scenetvblog Comment

The National Film and Television School, in partnership with Channel 4, is looking for applicants from diverse backgrounds to enrol onto its Directing [...]

Casting Call | Award-winning content creators BWNG TV and Black&Sexy TV team up for new series

June 22, 2016June 22, 2016scenetvblog Comment

Top: The Couple from Black&SexyTV. Bottom: How Did We Get Here from BWNG TV From the creators and producers of ‘Brothers With No [...]

Film Festival | British-Muslim women speak on media portrayal in Jade Jackman documentary ‘Exploiting It?’

June 18, 2016January 29, 2017scenetvblog Comment

In Exploiting It?, a thought-provoking documentary by first-time filmmaker Jade Jackman, several different British-Muslim women share their recent experiences of being negatively portrayed or [...]

Watch | Top Dad – Ashley Walters meets fathers from all walks of life

June 18, 2016November 14, 2016scenetvblog Comment

Actor, music artist and father of seven Ashley Walters is on the hunt for some alternative parental advice from a group of fathers, all from different [...]

Opportunity | Applications now open for Doc/Next – a scheme for emerging documentary talent

June 18, 2016June 18, 2016scenetvblog Comment

Sheffield Doc/Fest has announced a new bespoke training and mentoring programme for emerging talent – Doc/Next. The programme is a year-long training initiative [...]

Watch | New trailer for Noel Clarke’s Brotherhood – in cinemas 29 August (Explicit)

June 17, 2016November 14, 2016scenetvblog Comment

A decade on from the events in Adulthood, and Sam Peel (Noel Clarke) has grown up, in a stable relationship with his [...]

TV Pick | Reggie Yates explores mental health in Texan prison for new BBC Three doc

June 16, 2016November 14, 2016scenetvblog Comment

Reposted from BBC Media Centre In the first of two immersive documentaries for BBC Three, Reggie Yates enters Bexar County Jail in Texas [...]

Opportunity | Win a trip to the 2016 BET Awards in LA

June 15, 2016November 14, 2016scenetvblog Comment

Reposted from Capital Xtra BET International and Capital XTRA are giving you and a friend the chance to win a trip of a lifetime [...]

News | Charlie Sloth to front new E4 ‘property-meets-hip-hop’ pilot

June 14, 2016June 14, 2016scenetvblog Comment

Reposted from Channel 4 Press Second Star is taking the heat out of hunting for a flatmate with a TX pilot commissioned by [...]

TV Pick | Cherish Oteka’s award-winning documentary ‘A Man Called Dad’ to premiere on London Live

June 14, 2016November 14, 2016scenetvblog Comment

Absentee. Abusive. Adulterous. Black fathers are often portrayed as distant, unreliable and unloving. Cherish Oteka's A Man Called Dad aims to challenge perceptions [...]

News | Chelsea Kwakye & Ore Ogunbiyi’s ‘Taking Up Space’ from #Merky Books to be adapted for TV

News | Sky pilots TV version of Spotify’s The Receipts Podcast as it experiments with new voices

News | Weruche Opia, Aml Ameen & Paapa Essiedu join cast of Michaela Coel’s BBC drama ‘January 22nd’

News | Lupita Nyong’o & Channel 4 go in search of forgotten Warrior Women in new documentary film

Breaking Through The Lens: ten female filmmakers get ready to pitch their projects at Cannes Film Festival