What Nobody Tells You
What Nobody Tells You began as a six-week, fully funded filmmaking programme designed to help aspiring creatives take their first steps into the industry through practical skills, real support and honest conversations with people already working in the creative industries.
Each week, a different guest joined us to share their career journey, the lessons they'd learned, and the things no one tells you when you're starting out. Those conversations were recorded and have become this podcast series.
Whether you're taking your first steps into a creative career or looking for inspiration for your next project, we hope these episodes give you the confidence to keep making, keep learning and keep creating.
Darren Osborne & Lisa Keddie
Darren and Lisa from Braw Talent chat about their journeys into filmmaking, their career highlights, and what makes a good story.
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Other Resources
BBC Writers Room - opportunities and script library
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland - theatre focused but good way to find scratch nights to try your work out
Douglas King
Douglas – Writer/Director and Lecturer at UWS – talks to Darren about the Disney classic that kicked off his filmmaking journey, turning his hobby into a career, and opportunities and funding for people starting out.
Leslie Liu
Dubbing Mixer Leslie talks all things sound, how if you don’t notice it, you’re doing a good job, and how one of the most important elements of sound is simply listening.
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Glasgow Based Sound Studios
Stewart Kyasimire
Director, Executive Producer, and Documentary Filmmaker Stewart talks to us about turning adversity into success, finding your unique story, and how to talk the ten year old version of adults.
Howie Gardner
Editor and Creative Director Howie talks to us about podcasting, failure, and changing US laws, whist urging us all to “just start”.
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Further Links
Opportunities and Resources
Creative Scotland
Filter by creative area and location to find opportunities
BBC Writers Room
Opportunities plus a script library
Channel 4 4Skills
Training schemes, placements and opportunities across television and digital media.
Scottish Book Trust
For literary opportunities
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland
Theatre focused but good way to find scratch nights to try your work out
Kings Trust
Courses, enterprise initiatives, mentoring opportunities, and much more for 16- to 30-year-olds across the UK.
National Library of Scotland - Moving Image Archive
The National Library of Scotland collects, preserves and promotes access to films capturing Scotland and her people, from the early days of film-making to the present day.
GMAC Film
GMAC Film a skills, talent & project development centre for independent filmmakers and young people. We hire out space to film professionals & creatives.
Station House Media Unit (SHMU)
Station House Media Unit (shmu), established as a charity in 2003, is one of the core cultural organisations in Aberdeen, and is at the forefront of Community Media development in Scotland.
Plantation Productions
Plantation Productions is an arts and media charity based in Govan, Glasgow. Through creative participation we aim to improve wellbeing and address inequality.
Training and Education
Screen Scotland
Funding, training, opportunities and industry information for film and TV creators in Scotland.
BFI Network
BFI Film Academy
Funding, short film opportunities, talent development and industry advice for emerging filmmakers.
NFTS Scotland
Regular talent labs, courses and development opportunities for emerging filmmakers and screen creatives in Scotland.
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) is a world-leading conservatoire of music, drama, dance, production and film located in Glasgow, Scotland.
Screen Academy Scotland
Courses in many aspects of film and film making
Screen Education Edinburgh
Screen Education Edinburgh is a charity dedicated to transforming lives through the medium of film, developing young people, new talent and independent filmmakers.
Media Education
Media Education combines high quality filmmaking and facilitation skills with expertise in nurturing trust and working sensitively and supportively with people from a wide range of abilities and backgrounds.
Festivals
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Aye Write
Writing festival with workshops, talks and networking opportunities.
Creative Freelance Resources
Creative Scotland guide to being a freelancer
A guide to the practical side of setting yourself up as a freelance creative
Creative Scotland rates of pay
Industry rates of pay explained
Programme funded by...
A Braw Talent CIC programme, funded by the the Allia C&C Social Impact Grant
Facilitator Darren Osborne Facilitator Lydia Everitt
Programme Lead Lisa Keddie Videographer & Editor Cameron Adam
A special thank you to each of our guests...
Doug King, Ana Songel, Andrew O'Connor, Leslie Liu, Stewart Kyasimire & Howie Gardner