Hastings and St Leonards
If you are aged 16 to 19 and want to learn about or work in film, you can apply for the BFI Academy Short Course.
You will take part in workshops and masterclasses with industry professionals designed to improve your knowledge of the industry and technical skills. As a team, you will make a short film that will be screened in Hastings and London alongside other BFI Academy short films.
You don’t need previous experience – just a passion for film and a desire to learn more.
Applications will open on 4th September 2024. The closing date for applications is 7th October 2024.
Dates
About the tutors
Nick Pilton
Nick Pilton is a filmmaker and film education specialist. He is a multi-award winning director and producer and his feature films have screened in London, New York and London. He has worked extensively in communities specialising in using film as a tool for change across both drama and documentary. He worked in broadcast television as a producer director on shows for Fox and National Geographic and currently heads up film and television education for Pauline Quirke academies supporting young filmmakers all over the UK. He also runs an annual film festival at BFI South Bank for young filmmakers.
Rebecca Marshall
Rebecca is an artist filmmaker whose moving image and documentary films have screened at festivals around the world including Thessaloniki Doc fest 2024, Locarno, London Independent Documentary F/F, Les Enfants Terribles! f/f and at venues including the NFT, The Roundhouse, Musee Du Louvre, The South London Gallery, De La Warr Pavilion, and The BlackShed Gallery. She has a PhD in film by practice. She is a regular lecturer at the London Film School where her workshops facilitate creative thinking through the practice of film, and support the development of exciting documentaries. She co-founded The Electric Palace cinema in Hastings in 2002, and handed over her directorship in 2023 to form Dear Future Films, an artist-led organisation making films and curating exciting film and moving image events.
About the BFI Academy
If you’re 16-25 and want to learn how to take your first steps to break into the screen industries, then BFI Film Academy is here to help. The future of our screen industries relies on finding and developing new talent just like you.
At the BFI Film Academy, they aim to ensure you have the best possible starting point for your career in film and the wider screen industries, where you can nurture and grow your interest in the creative process.
Be part of the Academy’s ever-growing network of young filmmakers, creatives and enthusiasts!
Find out more about the academy - https://www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-film-academy-opportunities-young-creatives
‘THE BFI FILM ACADEMY WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EXPERIENCES I’VE EVER HAD AND I THINK I’D BE ON A TOTALLY DIFFERENT CAREER PATH NOW IF IT WASN’T FOR THAT.’
CHARLOTTE REGAN WRITER-DIRECTOR OF SCRAPPER (Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival 2023)
South East Network
The Bright Foundation are very excited to be bringing the BFI Academy Short Course to Hastings and St Leonards for the first time. We are part of a network of BFI Academy hubs across the South East region led by Screen South in Folkestone. Other partners are:
Barn Theatre & Museum
Rodgers Farm
Stonestile Lane
Hastings
East Sussex
TN35 4PH
Registered address:
2 London Road
St Leonards-on-Sea
East Sussex
TN37 6AE
