Media Futures - Breaking and Entering: Getting a Start in TV and Film

Screen Yorkshire’s new Head of Skills, Glyn Middleton, gives advice on how to get into the competitive media industry.

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Glyn Middleton, documentary-maker and co-Founder of pioneering Leeds indie True North, explains how and why he’s committed – as Screen Yorkshire’s new Head of Skills – to developing a skilled, versatile and diverse workforce in our region – and how he tries to help graduates navigate a route into this competitive industry. 

He outlines how the Screen Yorkshire team supports and champions film, TV and digital creatives across this busy and dynamic region – including financial investment for shows like Peaky Blinders and Ackley Bridge – and describes the talent and skills-based programmes he runs, such as Beyond Brontes, Connected Campus and the Centre of Screen Excellence: Yorkshire.

Glyn Middleton began his TV career making investigative documentaries in apartheid-era South Africa, Peru, Sicily and Northern Ireland. He produced and directed a wide range of high-profile, peaktime documentaries for ITV, the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and the Discovery Channel. 

In 2001 he co-founded the Leeds-based indie, True North, and helped to turn a start-up indie into the UK’s biggest factual producer outside of London. He developed, produced and oversaw numerous True North shows for UK and international channels. 

For Screen Yorkshire, he manages a range of training programmes and is committed to developing a talented, versatile and diverse workforce for the region’s TV and Film producers.

@fleshandbloodgm 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/glynmiddleton/

www.screenyorkshire.co.uk

             Images of Channel 5’s Yorkshire Vet and Channel 4’s Ackley Bridge