Early Stage Creatives

Are you an early-stage creative or filmmaker? Are you aspiring to work in film curation, event production or marketing?

Then the below programmes provide great opportunities to kick-start your career in the screen industries.

BFI Film Academy

If you’re 16-25, live in the South West and are interested in the screen industries, BFI Film Academy here in the South West can support you to get to know more about film and how to make a career in the screen industries.

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Make Shift

Interested in creative technology and/or film practice? Get involved in Make Shift Watershed’s place for early career creatives. 

Beyond Boundaries 360

Got a great idea for a film event, programme or other cinema project, but finding it hard to get it off the ground? Starting out can be difficult, especially if you are from a background that under-represented in the screen exhibition sector. Beyond Boundaries is a rolling year round programme that invests in individuals and/or small grassroot organisations.

Look out for Beyond Boundaries 360 – our 5 months training and development opportunity starting each year in the autumn.

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