The inimitable Tony Wilson always sought to champion North West talent, and this year's lecture features the Salford born star of The Fast Show, Men Behaving Badly and Cold Feet, John Thomson.
Need inspiration for your latest TV idea?
Bored with filming in the usual places?
Join us on an exclusive tour of awarding winning Manchester Museum's secret archives.
The tour will also include free access to the exhibition, object lessons and an opportunity for networking.
RTS NW are delighted to announce our next fantastic event, a screening of Trust Me, the brand new drama thriller made by Red Production Company for BBC One. Plus an exclusive panel discussion about ‘women in television’. Are we doing enough to bring more women into the industry? Why are drama directors predominantly male? Is there a fundamental flaw in how we are hiring our crews?
The screening will be followed by a Q and A session with Jimmy McGovern plus cast and crew.
To reserve your place on the guest list please email Rachel Pinkney at rachelpinkney@yahoo.co.uk
An Evening with Sky News Anchor Kay Burley, hosted by Jim Hancock.
To Reserve your place please email Events Manager Rachel Pinkney: rachelpinkney@yahoo.co.uk
Channel 4’s Liverpool-set drama The Gathering, made by World Productions, was a big winner on the night, taking home three awards: Best Drama; Best Scriptwriter for novelist Helen Walsh on her TV writing debut; and Best Performance in a Drama for Eva Morgan in her first professional role.
BBC One’s campaigning magazine show Morning Live also scored a hat-trick of awards: Best Factual Series, Best Inclusive Practice (for programmes with deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent contribution) and Best Presenter for Gethin Jones.
For many of the young cast of new Channel 4 drama The Gathering, it was their first time in professional acting roles – not that viewers are likely to be able to tell.
The secret to eliciting such quality performances from newcomers is to leave them to get on with it, lead director Gareth Bryn told the Liverpool premiere audience.
“From the moment I got the results… I had a lot of questions I didn’t know what to do with. I thought… if I put it all into the structure of a film... then I could make sense of it.… Films have always saved me.” This was RTS Futures Award nominee Luke Davies, co-producer and subject of BBC Three’s life-affirming documentary Stranger in My Family.
Those results were from Davies’s DNA test. His journey to redefine his identity, uncovering two key, long-buried secrets that would turn his and his extended family’s worlds upside-down, was documented over the next four years.
The future of the RTS, especially in the regions, is about ensuring that it has a relevance and a clear purpose. And this must be a real purpose for all – from new recruits to industry heavyweights. We need events that inspire, challenge and make us question the direction of travel for our sector, while ensuring there are opportunities to make new connections and unexpected partnerships.
Since the pandemic, it is true that we have all been grappling with the best forum to have conversation and debate, and thinking about the spaces and places in which we come together.
