We’re wrapping up yet another incredibly busy year. 2022 has seen students, grads and staff work extraordinarily hard and the results have been fantastic to see.
One of the biggest highlights of the year have been the 2022 Graduate Showcases. With post-pandemic restrictions still having an impact we added to our usual January Showcase a live event in July. Over 650 guests came along to the event and 3,400 visited the online Grad Showcase. The showcase in July included 44 script performances, 50 graduate films, 13 presentations, four panel events and three masterclasses. Thanks to Efe Cakarel and Heidi Thomas for joining us as LFS Honorary Associates.
We were over the moon to see the achievements of our grads this year. There are too many to mention all but just some of the highlights included filmmaking alumna Paula Huidobro being part of the team behind Academy Award winning Best Picture winner, CODA as Cinematographer, filmmaking alumnus Koby Adom on screen directing the second series of BBC Ones Noughts + Crosses and Masha Novikova awarded joint third prize at La Cinef Selection 2022 for her graduate short film, Glorious Revolution.
We were lucky enough to be joined this year by a host of industry professionals for our Masterclass series. Experts across the sector from a huge range of crew roles joined us in person and online including Jim Archer, Olivier Kaempfer, Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen.
Beyond the work of our MA students and grads we have been delighted to continue the Outreach work of LFS and this year joined forces with National Saturday Club to offer teenagers a free place to learn new film and media skills.
We’re incredibly proud of our LFS staff as they have been working hard at many other projects, alongside their roles at LFS. Roger Hyams who has taught Screenwriting at LFS for 17 years published The Lightman Systems, Hal Cantor, Visiting Lecturer at LFS, wrote and starred in the play, The Importance of Being Anxious, Rafael Kapelinski wrapped shooting in Hungary on his feature, Budapest Diaries and LFS tutor and Visiting Lecturer and Honorary Associate Margaret Glover co-wrote Hanging Gardens which featured at Venice Film Festival.
The year ended with the fantastic news that LFS has been awarded the status of World-Leading Specialist Provider by the Office for Students. The status marks LFS out as being recognised internationally in the filmmaking specialism, providing a level of quality and expertise among the finest in the world. In receiving this accolade, the knowledge, creativity, and skills of LFS staff and students, and the enduring impact the LFS graduates have on the industry, are recognised by leading employers, external funders, other world-leading providers and others in the UK and beyond.
Photo Credits (top to bottom)
London Film School Graduate Showcase 2022 by Blerta Kambo
London Film School National Saturday Club
Image from Budapest Diaries by Rafael Kapelinski