03/01/2013 - Screenwriter Neil McKay to deliver first talk

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Creative Skillset, the creative industries’ sector skills council, have today announced a partnership to deliver a programme of lectures where UK creative and technical practitioners from the worlds of film, television and games will impart their knowledge to audiences comprising undergraduate and postgraduate students.

First up is BAFTA-winning screenwriter Neil McKay (television’s See No Evil: The Moors Murders, Mad Money) who will lecture at Liverpool John Moores University on January 29, 2013. Other confirmed lecture topics include animation at the University of Glamorgan (part of the Creative Skillset Media Academy Wales), and games art and design at Norwich University College of the Arts.

Tim Hunter, Head of Learning and Events at BAFTA, said, “We want career-starters, wherever they are in the UK, to be able to access the wealth of information acquired by members of our industries.”

Kate O’Connor, Deputy CEO of Creative Skillset said, “So many careers are built on the momentum created by a spark of inspiration, an image, a conversation, an experience, a moment in time. BAFTA members count amongst those able to offer that spark and we’re excited to be working with BAFTA to give the practitioners of the future invaluable insights from the country’s leading lights”.