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The Network has launched applications for its talent scheme which runs free of charge alongside the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF) in August.  It is a packed long weekend giving participants the opportunity to meet and work with the best in TV from behind and in front of the camera.

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The first UK Young Artists event will take place in the autumn of 2010 in Derby. Artists who are selected to take part in this event could also be selected to represent the UK at the XV edition of the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean.
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The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund is launching a prestigious new comedy writing competition where the winning screenplay will be made into a film funded by the CTBF and the UK Film Council with a cash prize for the writer from Working Title Films.  Deadline for entries is 12th March.  Read more...

The BBC’s International News services have launched 'My World'  - a competition inviting participants worldwide to shoot a two minute mini-documentary with the theme of ‘My World’. The project aims to find original stories from each continent, with compelling personal narratives.  Video content can be recorded on any kind of camera, from a mobile phone to digital camcorder.  Closing time for entries is 4.00 pm on 5 March 2010.
For more information and entry criteria please visit: www.filmindustrynetwork.biz/bbcmyworld/

The East Anglian Film Archive (EAFA), part of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of The University of East Anglia is pleased to announce 7 fixed term positions (deadline for applications - 12th March) working on its major access project called 'Building the People's Digital Film Archive for the East of England' (under DFAF, the Digital Film Archive Fund) in 2010 and 2011: Read more...

During the last two years work has been proceeding in a small-scale digitisation initiative, part-funded by a grant from the Shiers Trust which is managed by the Royal Television Society, to scan and capture digital copies of copies of the The Radio Times, which was founded in 1923 and to deliver access to the schedule records for pre-war television.  The archive has now been launched online and is accessible via http://www.radiotimesarchive.co.uk/  Read more...