UK production company Bosena has launched Field Work, a talent and business development programme for early-career producers based in rural and coastal parts of the country/
It is supported by the BFI Creative Challenge Fund, in collaboration with BFI Network.
Field Work will support 10 producers and their in-development projects across 24 weeks, combining online mentoring with a five-day residential in January 2027 in Cornwall.
The programme is run with Dyski, which specialises in residencies and workshops in the creative industries.
The online programme will feature group sessions, guest speaker talks and one-to-one mentoring, designed to build participants’ industry knowledge and business skills while they develop a particular project.
Applicants must be based in a rural or coastal area of the UK, outside a major city, have at least two years of producing experience on narrative shorts and/or low-budget features, and have an active project with a developed treatment or draft screenplay, with writer and director attached.
Bosena is based in Cornwall, and has produced films including Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men and Rose Of Nevada, the latter of which launched in Horizons at Venice last year. The company was listed in the Ones to Watch section of Screen’s Brit50 feature on the top UK independent production companies last year.
“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,” said Bosena founder Denzil Monk. “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. We will treat our 10 producers’ rural or coastal contexts as rich material and perspectives, rather than limitations.”
“Bosena’s 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,” said Mia Bays, director of the BFI Filmmaking Fund. “This programme will help unlock even more of that potential.”
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