| MUMBAI:
BBC Blast and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) have formed
a partnership to offer 16 to 19 year olds the opportunity to win a new TV Craft
bursary. BBC
Blast is BBC's creative learning initiative for young people interested in a career
in film, fashion, music, dance, writing, art or design.
The
new Screen-Skills initiative will award eight bursaries in total, each with a
budget of £3,000 and give the recipients the opportunity to work with the
BBC or an external production company over a six-month period to produce a new
piece of work. Content
created by the winners will be screened on BBC Two at the 2010 Future Film Festival
at the BFI and at a special event held at BAFTA in November 2010 to showcase their
work to filmmakers, TV production executives and industry professionals. Four
out of the eight bursary recipients will be nominated for a Screen-Skills Award
and the winner will be announced at the British Academy Television Craft Awards
in May 2010. Developed
to give talented young people the opportunity to showcase their skills and gain
valuable training, the new bursary covers multiple aspects of TV production and
is looking for applicants in four separate categories – editor, scriptwriter,
composer and director of photography. To
enter, applicants aged between 16 and 19 should upload an original video not longer
than five minutes to the BBC Blast website by 5.00 pm (UK time) on 30 September.
All original content uploaded will also be screened on BBC Two. The
new TV Craft bursary is the latest scheme offered by BBC Blast this year. Other
projects include Your Label, that gives 10 young people the opportunity to launch
their own fashion line at the London Fashion Week and U Takeover which is giving
22 young people the chance to run BBC 1Xtra for a day. | 
