LFS Invites Next Generation of Fast Forward Producers to Step Up for Creative Skillset supported training
Monday 31stMarch – Friday 18th April 2014
Five months after the first programme, Farhana Bhula, one of the producers, had shot BONOBO, her first feature.
‘As a direct result of this programme, I feel extremely comfortable talking about EIS and legal frameworks, I am confident about building a team, and more importantly carving out a personal identity as a producer. Since completing the programme, I have raised my entire budget on an EIS - with the help of lawyers who also mentored us - and gone into production. There is no way I would have had the courage or knowledge to do this so swiftly and convincingly without the training I received at LFS.’ - Farhana Bhula
The programme leader is Emma Hayter, a highly experienced producer, financier and trainer. Emma expects to add to the FFP pool of contributors producer Nick Brown (Neal Street Films), financier Bill Allen, lawyer Carlo Dusi, editor Sean Barton, and director Aisling Walsh. Also scheduled to contribute are award winning writer, producer and director (LFS alumnus) Ludi Boeken; and Linda Bruce, Line Producer. The ten participants will also have an opportunity to produce an LFS Graduation Film.
Says Archie Tait, LFS Head of Projects, ‘A film producer needs to be a lot of different people, sometimes all at the same time: a film critic, a film historian, a talent scout, an X Factor judge, a lawyer, an accountant, a factory foreman, a marketer, a publisher, and an excellent judge of what a worldwide audience is going to want to see in two or three years’ time. You should be highly articulate and entrepreneurial, and also a thoughtful analyst and strategist. In military terms, you’re a general. But most of the time, you don’t have an army – it’s just you. This programme introduces you to the industry professionals who will help you devise your strategy, and your battle plan.’
Deadline for applications is 12 noon on Friday 31st January. There are ten places available, two of which are 100% bursaries. For further information on Fast Forward Producing visit http://lfs.org.uk/lfs-projects/fast-forward.
The London Film School is grateful to the Creative Skillset Film Skills Fund for its support of Fast Forward Producing.
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Notes to Editors:- Archie Tait and all course leaders are available for comment and interview, for images and spokespeople contact Lydia Penke
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- For more information on The London Film School contact LFS Head of Press and Marketing: Kate Hughes
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- The London Film School
Founded in 1956, LFS is one of the world's longest established graduate filmmaking schools. It is constituted as an international conservatoire with 70% of its MA Filmmaking students coming from outside the UK. The School produces around 170 films a year, including work for the five teaching exercises on the MA Filmmaking. The School also offers an MA degree in Screenwriting, an MA degree in International Film Business and a PhD programme with the University of Exeter, and around 50 Continuous Professional Development courses each year as ‘LFS Workshops’.The school is the most active in Europe with post-graduation teaching partnerships, including The Low Budget Film Forum, Making Waves and Serial Eyes.
LFS graduates are established in film and television production in more than eighty countries. Associates include world-renowned filmmakers Mike Leigh, Michael Mann, Tak Fujimoto, Roger Pratt, Ueli Steiger, Iain Smith, Duncan Jones, Horace Ove, Ho Yim, Danny Huston, Franc Roddam, Brad Anderson, Ann Hui, Marius Holst, Oliver Hermanus and Bill Douglas, as well as the film historian David Thomson and the playwright Arnold Wesker.
LFS is one of three Creative Skillset Film Academies, postgraduate institutions approved by the UK film industry as centres of excellence.
