Early Stage Creatives

Are you an early-stage creative or filmmaker? Then the below programmes provide great opportunities to kick-start your career.

BFI Film Academy

BFI Film Academy offers opportunities for 16 – 25 year olds, anywhere in the UK, to get to know more about film and how to make a career in the screen industries.

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Make Shift

Make Shift is Watershed’s place for early career creatives who are interested in creative technology and/or film practice.

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Art of Action

A open fund available to BFI FAN Members for Art of Action exhibition activity from October 2024.

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Animation Producer Lab 2024: Meet the Participants

BFI NETWORK South West is excited to announce a new Animation Producer Lab in collaboration with ScreenSkills, supported by the Animation Skills Fund.

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Coffee Morning with BFI NETWORK South West

A drop-in (online) coffee break and online chat for filmmakers based in the South West of England.

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Apply to BFI NETWORK SW’s Director Lab 2024

BFI NETWORK south west, in partnership with Bournemouth Film School (BFS), is pleased to announce a new Director Lab.

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