slingshot aims to innovate at each stage of film making. One of its aims is to reduce development periods by turning the Greenlight ON at the beginning of the process and training talent in conjunction with their projects thus creating robust creative teams.

In order to reduce development cycles whilst maintaining well developed stories, slingshot has designed a training and development programme with the support of its training partners, PAL (Performing Arts Lab) and Met Film and TV, the UK’s only fully digital film school. Slingshot recently received industry recognition and support in the form of a major Skillset grant to fund its Greenlight programme.

The main body of the Programme consists of a series of bespoke short courses and a residential filmmaker’s foundry. These will be linked to and supported by, creative and commercial workshops, one-to-one script editing sessions as well as symposia, test shoots and an office space for the filmmakers.

Slingshot principles

The Programme is inspired by slingshot’s belief that both people and projects will benefit most from the unique integration of a number of proven development methodologies, adhering to the following principles:

Development cycles can be compressed through a combination of intensive workshops, structure and collaborative peer review, and through an iterative process, partly enabled by digital technology

All of the talent involved in a low budget film will work more effectively towards better outcomes if they share an understanding of the entire value chain, particularly the new models for marketing and distribution

slingshot believes that developing talent is as important as developing projects and our success is as dependent on these creative relationships as it is on the scripts that we Greenlight.