Community Interest Company, The TV Collective, is to launch its new Content Fund managed by BeeSMART, and new accelerator scheme: TV Collective Develops at its TV Collective Live Festival in September.
The BeeSMART fund will provide a monthly £25k charity payout from October 2024 but the TV Collective’s first content fund will be given at the end of TV Collective Live festival in September 2024, with the fund winner receiving £5000.
Both initiatives will be launched at TV Collective’s first international hybrid festival running from 16th to 27th September.
The festival itself features in-person events including Lunch with Big Zuu on Friday 20th September; Sunday Times Best-selling Author of ‘Natives: Race, Class in the ruins of Empire’ / hip hop artist and Immovable Studios co-Founder Akala; a Behind the scenes of Netflix’s hit ‘Supacell’with Sheila Nortley and Sebastian Thiel; a session with Paul Garnes, president of Ava DuVernay’s Array on ‘Origin’ and the future of filmmaking; ‘Defiance: Fighting The Far Right’ with award-winning Rajesh Thind; and Amazon Prime ‘Gassed Up’ with award-winning filmmaker George Amponsah.
At TV Collective Live festival, based on The TV Collective podcast (formerly The Plug), attendees can book 1-2-1’s with industry experts, attend over 30 masterclasses and business clinic tackling everything from pitching, attracting finance and distribution to protecting Intellectual property and the impact of AI.
Also launching at the TV Collective festival is the TV Collective Content Fund, which pays homage to the Pardner Hand, an informal, community-based savings scheme used by many from the Windrush generation to purchase homes in the UK when they first arrived and faced discrimination from lenders.
TV Collective CEO Simone Pennant MBE, says, “Even with the successes of our Breakthrough leaders programme, that has supported over 200 global majority talent at senior levels in TV to progress their careers – many of us are in survival mode, given the current economic challenges. However with these new initiatives, TV Collective hopes to continue to inspire our community to thrive, not just survive. Supporting the TV Collective Content Fund not only gives creatives of colour a chance to win big every month and get their hands on some cash money, but more importantly the money raised goes to global majority creatives supporting them to develop and produce the content audiences want to see. TV Collective – the clue is in the name; you have to be in it so we can all win it!”
Big Zuu says, “TV Collective is trying to make sure it’s lit for diverse talent in TV and giving away cash money! Join me for an in-person Big Zuu lunch at TV Collective’s festival, where I will be chatting about how and why I am bodying TV content production, and find out how TV Collective is backing their chat with cash!”
Paul Garnes says, “On behalf of ARRAY Filmworks I’m happy to join my fellow producers and storytellers at this forward-thinking convening to explore the importance of narrative change and the future of film.”
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