About the event

Join us online for a seminar with Lord David Puttnam, a conversation on the importance of future skills, and how multi-disciplinary working within all subjects will open up your career opportunities, through the lens of creative industries.

Get ahead in your job search, find out what employers are looking for in new graduates and contribute to the important conversations surrounding working in the screen industries. The seminar will be delivered by Lord David Puttnam and will look at the skills needs of the screen industries, a key section of the creative industries that has rapid growth potential and intersects with a broad range of courses at Kingston.

A link to watch the seminar will be sent to confirmed attendees closer to the date.

About the speaker, Lord David Puttnam

Lord David Puttnam is a world-renowned film producer and director, who spent thirty years as an independent producer of award-winning films including The Mission, The Killing Fields, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone and Local Hero. Together these films have won ten Oscars, 13 Golden Globes, 31 Baftas, nine Emmys, four David di Donatellos and the Palme D'Or at Cannes.

Lord Puttnam retired from film production in 1998 to focus on his work in public policy as it relates to education, the environment and the creative and communications industries. He is currently the Chair of Atticus Education, an online education company founded in 2012 that delivers audio-visual seminars to students all over the world. Find out more about Lord David Puttnam at: https://www.davidputtnam.com/biography.