SKY — DDPTV

SKY DRAMA & COMEDY

MEET & GREET NETWORKING

Deaf & Disabled People in TV (DDPTV) has teamed up with Sky to increase the number of Deaf, Disabled and/or Neurodivergent professionals working in television.

We are looking for 20 DDPTV Members to apply who are working as Development Execs, Directors, Editors (post-production), Exec Producers, Line Producers, Location Managers, Prod Execs, Producer, Script Editor, Showrunners, Story Producers, Writers, or 1st ADs. Those selected will meet with the Sky Drama and Comedy Commissioning Team, and independent producers who produce content for Sky at a Meet & Greet on Wednesday the 27th of November 2024.

Apply for this in-person event using our online application below, which will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. Both Sky and DDPTV know the importance of regionality when telling stories. Sky is offering to pay for 8 DDPTV Members travel to London (either train or flight depending on location), and a night in a hotel on the evening of the 26th or 27th of November. Please indicate whether this is required for your attendance, and please remember we have a limited number of attendees for whom we can pay travel and accommodation. Your application answers, CV, and image will be supplied to both the Sky Team and independent producers invited to the event.

We will review your application as quickly as possible. If you have demonstrated your suitability for the event, we will send you an invite and request you complete a larger access requirement form so we can meet your needs.

The application deadline is Thursday the 12th of September 2024, 13:00.

Privacy Notice

We will use any personal data provided to us as part of this application, and relevant publicly available information, to consider and make decisions about your suitability for the event or scheme you are applying for. Where you give us special category personal data about yourself, we process this with your consent. You have a right to withdraw this consent at any time. If you are selected for an event or scheme, we will use your personal data to manage our relationship with you and to allow us to produce this event or scheme. For more information on how we may use your personal data, and on your data protection rights please read our privacy policy. For event terms and conditions please visit our T&Cs.

NOTICE:

Please note, applications for events/sessions/schemes are only open to DDPTV Members once shared in the DDPTV forum or email by Admin. Applications for future events will be stored, but not processed until the application is open. Events are subject to change; there *maybe* changes to original schedules, dates, or theme could differ. We will notify successful applicants of any changes if they happen.

EVENT/SCHEME/SESSION

Which event or session are you applying for?

Would you like this application to be considered for other future events or sessions?

If so, please select the sessions below.

EVENT/SCHEME/SESSION 01

(optional)

EVENT/SCHEME/SESSION 02

(optional)

EVENT/SCHEME/SESSION 03

(optional)

ARE YOU A DDPTV MEMBER?

You confirm that (please tick):

YES

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A DDPTV MEMBER?

HAVE YOU ATTENDED A DDPTV EVENT BEFORE?

This may be a virtual or in-person event.

IF YOU HAVE ATTENDED DDPTV EVENTS IN THE PAST; DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR LAST ONE?

TERMS & CONDITIONS

By completing and submitting this application you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to the terms and conditions of the application release. If successfully invited to an event, session, or scheme; you give DDPTV your consent to share your full name, job title, bio and photos with the other attendees. As well as, your full name, job title, contact details, application, bio, photos and special category data with 3rd Party organisations DDPTV is collaborating with. For more information please go to: www.ddptv.org/tandcs.

You confirm that (please tick):

YES

Do you consent to us processing any special category personal data that you have provided in this application or which you later provide as part of the application process for the program in accordance with our privacy policy www.ddptv.org/privacy-policy this processing is necessary for us to consider your suitability for the event or scheme you are applying for where such information is particularly relevant to the content. You have a right to withdraw this consent at any time during the application stage by contacting info@ddptv.org

You confirm that (please tick):

YES

APPLICATION

COUNTY

Which U.K County do you live in?

POSTCODE

WILL YOU REQUIRE TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION EXPENSES PAID?

Please indicate whether you require payment for travel and accommodation to attend. Please remember we have a limited number of attendees for whom we can pay travel and accommodation.

PRONOUNS:

NAME:

First Name

Last Name

PREFERRED LANGUAGE

English/BSL/Welsh

JOB TITLE

This maybe a TV industry role, or you may currently work outside of the industry.

EMAIL ADDRESS 01:

Primary email address to contact you.

CONTACT NUMBER:

May DDPTV share your CV with all event attendees?

YES

Twitter (If you have an account)

Instagram (If you have an account)

Facebook URL (If you have an account)

Skype handle (If you have an account)

Website / Youtube / Blog URL

http://

WILL A SUPPORT WORKER BE ACCOMPANYING YOU?

Such as a PA, BSL Interpreter, Support Dog. If so, please give their name.

ADDITIONAL EMAIL

Would you like to supply us with a backup or work email? Or an email address for your Support Worker so we can include them on emails to you?

EVENT QUESTIONS

Why would you like to work with or on a Sky production?

This is a way for you to demonstrate that you love docs, but also that you understand the nature of our work with PSBs and streamers.

Please give a brief summary of three recent or relevant credits, outlining your key achievements and responsibilities on a production. If relevant, please highlight any transferable skills that you’d like us to consider. If you’re a development creative, please discuss three relevant ideas you developed to commission or to an advanced stage.

This gives you the chance to tell us in a focussed way what you do, and background to demonstrate your versatility.

What do you feel are your key strengths/skills as programme-maker or development creative for HETV and/or Comedy?

It’s useful to know how someone frames their skillset in order to help us understand where you sit on a production team. Whether amazing with journalistic compliance, sharp in the edit, incredible self-shooter, or brilliant at doing sensitive access-work. You tell us.

As this is an in-person event, do you have any allergies?

This could be one or a mixture of foods, animals, pollen, mold, dust mites, medications, insect stings , perfumes and/or household chemicals.

Do you have any access requirements we need to meet during the event, scheme or session you are applying for?

We do not consider this as a factor when selecting applicants, we ask for this information to make sure requirements are met and in place prior to the sessions.

Deaf & Disabled People in TV strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups. The following monitoring questions are completely optional.

ETHNICITY:

How would you describe your ethnicity?

AGE:

RELIGION:

GENDER IDENTITY:

How do you identify?

SEXUAL ORIENTATION:

DISABILITY 01:

Are you a Deaf, Disabled or Neurodiverse Person? You may have a combination of disabilities, if so please use this and the second drop down, and additional information section if you choose to divulge.

DISABILITY 02:

People are not made in factories, and one drop down may not be enough. Here is a second drop for Deaf, Disabled or Neurodiverse.

DISABILITY 03:

You may have a combination of disabilities, you can free type any additional information here if you so choose.