Tuesday 1st February 2011
Lights, camera, action
Scottish Government
Scotland's Skills Minister Angela Constance visited fictional soap town Shieldinch on the River City set today to launch a new TV production skills project to further boost the £5.2 billion creative industries sector.
Skills Development Scotland (SDS), BBC Scotland, media and entertainment trade union BECTU and Skillset have come together to support budding TV producers to receive the skills and experience needed to succeed in Scotland's creative industry.
The two-year partnership project will inject more than £500,000 into the industry - which currently employs more than 60,000 people - and will provide Scots producers with the opportunity to build on their existing knowledge and gain crucial additional skills and experience to help them become industry leaders of the future.
Find out more about Scotland's film industry