About
Hannah Gosney is a Head of Production and Senior Production Manager as well as founder and owner of Media Career Advice.
Starting out as an office runner, Hannah quickly worked her way up the ranks working on extreme sports shows and commercials to remote and hostile shoots among others, to specialise in factual, factual entertainment and natural history programmes. She’s worked in the industry for over 12 years in a variety of genres from Music & Arts, Natural History, Documentaries, Sport, Corporate & Commercial and Drama.
Credits include The Mekong River with Sue Perkins (BBC 2), Flintoff’s Road to Nowhere (Sky One), Wild Shepherdess with Kate Humble (BBC 2), Wales: Land of the Wild (BBC 2), Veganville (BBC Three) and Wonders of the Celtic Deep (BBC 2).
Throughout her career she’s been passionate about nurturing, training and supporting crew and understands the importance of best practice in the industry. With this in mind she now focuses her time on providing training for the media industry with an emphasis on those working in production as well as providing career advice for new entrants and established freelancers. She has a Level 3 Train the Trainer qualification, a Level 3 Award in Education and Training contextualised to the screen industries and is a Level 3 qualified ILM Coach & Mentor.
She runs the majority of the training courses Media Career Advice provides and facilitates other training run by external trainers. She also oversees our large training programmes, providing the majority of training for these as well as overseeing the programmes to ensure that everything runs smoothly in her role as programme manager. She also runs all of our one to one career advice sessions, helping freelancers to break into the industry as well as achieve their career goals.
Anna Roberts is a coach, mentor, facilitator and trainer with a background in media and training. For 3 years she ran coaching and mentoring programmes for Bectu; most recently the ‘Mentoring 4 Screen’ programme for freelancers workers in scripted and unscripted TV and film.
For 14 years, Anna worked as a video-journalist, documentary Producer/Director and self-shooting PD making programmes with independent production companies for BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and S4C. She was Head of Training for 2 years at the Thomson Foundation which offered training for journalists and programme makers from the developing world.
In 2015, she completed an ILM level 7 in Coaching and Mentoring at the University of South Wales and has since worked mainly in this field. She volunteers as a mentor for young people at the Prince’s Trust.
She runs the ‘Becoming a better manager with coaching & mentoring skills’ training for Media Career Advice. Most recently she trained 67 industry mentors from across the UK in mentoring skills, providing them with the confidence and a useful toolkit to foster strong mentoring partnerships on the Production Co-ordinator Training Programme for Unscripted TV that Media Career Advice ran for ScreenSkills. She ran induction sessions for the mentees to prepare them for the partnership and matched 85 mentoring pairs before overseeing these partnerships, running regular online check-ins with mentors and mentees.
She is reprising her mentoring co-ordinator role for the ScreenSkills Production Assistant Training Programme for Unscripted TV that we are running between 2023-2024.
Inge Samuels is a TV producer of some 20 years standing with a particular specialism in Factual TV Development. She first cut her teeth at the BBC where she produced and developed factual programming in the science, natural history and popular factual genres before joining the Indie sector where she devised, pitched and won commissions across a range of channels and for broadcasters in both the UK and the US. She's additionally worked as the Head of Integrated Content Production (producing short form films) for The WaterBear Network - an interactive SVOD channel dedicated to all things environmental/natural history based. Plus, she has twice produced the Wildscreen Film Festival - once virtually. Along the way Inge has produced content for media training workshops for the BBC Academy and is keen to help nurture the next generation of industry professionals.
Inge led the placement elements of the ScreenSkills Production Co-ordination for Unscripted TV programme. She made initial contact with over 400 production companies across the UK and built strong relationships with many of those companies, who employed our trainees for both short-term and long-term placements. She placed 85 trainees, 45% of whom were transferers, in over 100 different companies.
She is reprising this role for the ScreenSkills Production Assistant Training Programme for Unscripted TV that we are running between 2023-2024.
