RTS National Event

Anatomy of a Hit: Love Island

The session will also look at the importance of casting, promotion, product placement and global distribution, as well as the extensive digital and online presence, which contributed to a maelstrom of attention and record viewing figures.

Join our distinguished panel drawn from across the ITV Studios and Love Island team – who will discuss how this multi-faceted production delivered such a resounding success for ITV2.

Love Island is an ITV Studios and Motion Content Group co-production for ITV2.

Diving Beneath the Waves - The Making of Blue Planet II

Filmed over four years, it took viewers on a journey across the oceans like never before. With audiences of over 10 million on BBC One, this series broke new technological ground, breathtaking new science and has lead the debate into the effects on plastic in our seas. 

Join us for what promises to be a very interesting and exciting event, rich with clips, as we hear from the producers involved in the making of the series about how the show came together and just how impactful the show has been. 

Speakers Include:

RTS Scotland: TV Fight Club

Join RTS Scotland as we explore the relationships between TV directors, fight directors and talent in the company of David Goodall.

As a fight director, David worked on Red Road with Tony Curran, That Old One with Kevin McKidd and Dog Altogether with Peter Mullan. His experience includes long running commitment to Scottish network productions like Rebus, M.I. High and Taggart.

"Sweet Sixteen: A Transgender Story" plus Discussion

(Picture from the BBC)

RTS Wales is pleased to present a showing of Sweet Sixteen: A Transgender Story.  This intimate and candid coming-of-age film follows a Welsh transgender teenager, Llyr Jones, as she turns 16.  As she moves from childhood to adulthood, Llyr's understanding of herself crystallises, and she begins to explore the new possibilities of adulthood and identity.