Bosena, the Cornwall-based, B Corp production company behind Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada, has announced a new collaboration with Dyski to deliver Field Work – a talent and business development programme for early-career producers based in rural and coastal parts of the UK.
The programme is supported by the BFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund, awarding National Lottery Good Cause funding and in collaboration with BFI Network.
Dyski runs immersive, place-based workshops and residencies for creatives whilst Bosena, one of Screen International’s 2025 ‘Brit 50 Ones to Watch’ is the ethical, regenerative, ecosophical production company committed to delivering an environmentally sustainable and socially progressive film industry that consequently contributes to the good growth of the Cornish screen sector. Field Work will support 10 early career producers and their in-development projects over 24 weeks, combining online mentoring with a five-day residential in Cornwall.
Bosena founder Denzil Monk said: “The majority of producer training and mentoring has always been concentrated in major cities, leaving significant talent around us in Cornwall, and across other Celtic nations and British rural and coastal areas of traditional economic deprivation, underserved. We have seen, felt and shared the ‘urban lens’ frustration, voiced by talented early-stage producers who are unnecessarily constrained by their geographical location.”
“Field Work is our response. Alongside our long-term collaborator Dion Star of Dyski, and our supporters at the BFI, we’ve crafted this bespoke programme to redress this imbalance, creating a 24-week development programme built from place, for place, and we will treat our 10 producers’ rural or coastal contexts as rich material and perspectives, rather than limitations. Together we aim to help them optimise their surrounding contexts as sources of opportunity, reconfiguring the concept of centre in an industry that has traditionally seen these voices as peripheral.”
Mia Bays, director of the BFI Filmmaking Fund added: “Early‑career producers based outside London and the Southeast are still too often underserved with project development funding, so Field Work is a genuinely exciting intervention. We’re thrilled to support Bosena — fresh from our recent Impact Fund collaboration on Rose of Nevada — through National Lottery Creative Challenge Funding, giving talent outside major cities a real pathway beyond NETWORK and into the practical, career‑shaping skills they need to move projects forward.
“Cornwall‑based Bosena are uniquely placed to lead this work: their commitment to regional landscapes, cultures, languages and dialects, and to championing minoritised voices, has already earned them a reputation for producing international projects with globally recognised talent. This programme will help unlock even more of that potential.”
Field Work will be a 24-week online programme comprising group sessions, guest speaker talks and one-to-one mentoring, designed to build participants’ industry knowledge and business skills while they develop a specific in-development project. The programme includes Field Notes, a five-day in-person residency in Cornwall (17–22 January 2027) focused on deepening participants’ creative instincts, communication and problem-solving skills. A programme of invited industry guests will support participants throughout.
Field Work is open to early-career producers who:
- Are based in a rural or coastal area of the UK, outside a major city
- Have 2+ years’ producing experience on narrative shorts and/or micro-low-budget features
- Have an active project with a developed treatment or draft screenplay, with a writer and director (or writer/director) attached
- Can attend all sessions, including the five-day residency
- Bosena welcomes applications from all backgrounds and individuals, and can provide support to complete the application form, including in alternative formats, on request via [email protected]
Expressions of interest open on 1 September 2026 with a submission deadline of 30 September.
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