Practical strategies, honest advice, and real-world data for beginners, juniors, and mid-career screen professionals in the UK.
50% of the production workforce is freelance. 43% are out of work at any given time. 70% feel insecure about their career. Most people are winging it — no financial plan, no career roadmap, no system for finding work. We built Filmr to change that.
No one hands you a manual when you start in TV and film. Filmr is the one we wish we'd had.
From your first runner job to negotiating your day rate as a mid-career freelancer — Filmr covers the real stuff: contracts, rates, politics, mental health, and the unwritten rules that actually determine who gets hired.
12 chapters covering every stage of a UK screen career — from breaking in to building a sustainable freelance practice. Real data, real talk.
→Industry-standard contract templates, day rate benchmarks by role, and negotiation scripts.
→Exactly how to get into the room — CV formats that work, cold outreach that lands, and how to identify your entry point.
→Tax, IR35, invoicing, and the basics of running a financially stable freelance life in the screen industry.
→Mental health, unsociable hours, toxic sets, and how to protect yourself — and your career — long term.
→The full Notion database — links, tools, directories, unions, training orgs, and more. Updated regularly.
→The complete written guide as a permanent download. Yours forever — including all future updates to the core chapters.
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Everything in the guide, plus the full Notion resource library, new content drops, and community access as we grow.