New School and Filmmakers' Centre
Reinventing the film school model
"I can't imagine a better place to study" MA Screenwriter graduated Summer 2007
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Following an intense period of change London Film School is now proposing nothing less than a re-invention of the film school and its role in the film community. We want to play a wider role, fostering UK and international talent and introducing innovation alongside our full-time training work. To make this happen we really will need your support.
Since 1956 The London Film School has pioneered film craft teaching and established a global reputation as a conservatoire. In the new premises, LFS, still within walking distance of London’s Soho – the early home of the UK filmmaking industry - will combine this important work with repertory film screenings, professional development, a project development ‘hothouse’ and events bringing together committed enthusiasts of global independent cinema and innovative film and television makers. LFS will be a secure conservatoire housed in an open centre for discovery and debate, open for all.
By opening its doors to both professionals and enthusiasts LFS will spread knowledge of and celebrate the discoveries of cinema via introduced screenings, themed seasons, publications and professional level teaching. These new programmes will be promoted to a wide audience providing broad and diverse public access.
The School will offer new MA courses in Film Curatorship, Production Design and Documentary Direction as well as LFS Workshops run as evening and weekend short courses. The historically important London Film Society will be relaunched welcoming a broad public membership for evening and weekend film screenings and events in the new building. The expanding London Film School will in these ways welcome film and TV professionals taking short courses, film industry corporate clients as well as the committed independent cinema audience. LFS will also serve a wide-range of Londoners through opening up its 50-year archive of film and developing a broad range of Education and Outreach projects.
The School will build on the support it is able to offer students, funded through grants from UK public and charitable sectors, for bursaries and development costs across full time degrees and workshops. Skillset, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the European MEDIA fund are all major new funders who have recently committed support. We really hope you will join us and invest in the independent film and TV makers of the future.
To make a donation now, click here. Please contact Leon Clowes, the School’s Development Manager to find out more. You can reach him at l.clowes@lfs.org.uk or on +44 (0) 20 7836 9718
Ben Gibson,
Director.
"LFS, from my application to the last day of class, was inviting, accepting, and equitable." September 2007 feedback from a Technical Drawing LFS Workshop
