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47 UK-wide BFI Film Academies now open for applications More than 900 places available for 16-19 year olds Aspiring young filmmakers now have the opportunity to kick-start their career in the film industry by applying for one of 900 places currently available on 47 BFI Film Academy courses located across the UK. Places are open to talented 16-19 year olds, resident in the UK, who have a passion for filmmaking and an ambition to work in the film industry. Courses are now accepting applications online for the upcoming academic year, September 2018 to March 2019. Taking place from Bournemouth to Belfast, Shropshire to Swansea, the BFI Film Academy is a gold standard talent development programme for 16-19 year olds, designed to uncover the UK’s filmmaking stars of the future. Previous graduates have gone on to work on a wide range of films, from independent productions such as Clio Barnard’s Dark River, the upcoming Blinded by the Light from Gurinder Chadha, through to blockbust...

NEXT BFI FILM ACADEMY FUTURE SKILLS TRAINEE PROGRAMME WITH LUCASFILM ANNOUNCED FOR ‘STAR WARS EPISODE IX’ Trainees on Solo: A Star Wars Story join cast members Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Thandie Newton onstage at BFI Southbank tonight A t a special presentation of Solo: A Star Wars Story at BFI Southbank tonight the BFI and Lucasfilm announced the next round of the pioneering BFI Film Academy Future Skills programme. Designed to give opportunities for a career in film to under-represented young people from all over the UK, the programme will have places for 30 new young people, the majority who are graduates from the BFI Film Academy, to work as paid trainees in a variety of craft and technical roles on the next Star Wars film, Episode IX, in production at Pinewood from July 2018. This follows a hugely successful pilot of the programme with Lucasfilm on Solo: A Star Wars Story in 2017, in UK cinemas from 24th May 2018, which placed 28 trainees in production roles ranging from Soun...

Official figures published today by the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit reveal a record breaking performance from the UK film industry in 2017, reinforcing its global reputation as a world leading centre for film and TV production alongside the continued growth of UK cinema audiences. The spend on film production in the UK in 2017 reached the highest level on record with £1.9 billion, a 12% increase on the previous year.   Major films including Tim Burton’s  Dumbo,  Ron Howard’s   Solo: A Star Wars Story,  Idris Elba’s  Yardie,  Guy Ritchie’s  Aladdin , David Yates’  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2 , Wash Westmoreland’s  Colette , Joanna Hogg’s  The Souvenir,  Paul Thomas Anderson’s  Phantom Thread,  Chiwetel Ejiofor’s  The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind  and Christopher McQuarrie’s  Mission Impossible 6 , underlined the continued world-class excellence of UK talent, crews, ...

A t the House of Commons this evening the Culture Secretary Karen Bradley, producer Barbara Broccoli, BFI Chair Josh Berger and BFI CEO Amanda Nevill launched Future Film Skills - An Action Plan to some of the biggest names in film and education.  The launch is a UK-wide call to the screen industries and education sector to support the new plan and for people with transferable skills and young people - especially those from under-represented groups, to join a booming industry, film, high-end TV, animation, VR and interactive media, that is recognised the world over for its highly skilled workforce and state of the art facilities. A new BFI commissioned report released tonight reveals that there are significant opportunities for the film workforce with an estimated 10,000 new entrants to the industry needed and 30,000 job opportunities over the next five years. Karen Bradley, Culture Secretary said: "The UK film industry is one of our biggest success stories and the films made...

The BFI and Radio Times today announce the full line-up for the  BFI & Radio Times Television Festival , celebrating the current golden age of TV with more than 40 events featuring some of the biggest names on the small screen. The new events announced today include the stars, writers and producers of some of the biggest TV shows of the year; including  The Crown ,  Victoria,   The Night Manager ,  Line of Duty ,  Poldark ,  Sherlock ,  Black Mirror  and  Strictly Come Dancing . Joining the line-up of TV stars is acclaimed director  Sir Ridley Scott , who will be in conversation following a screening on Saturday 8 April of  The Author of Beltraffio  (TF1 1974), a precious gem which has recently been rediscovered by the BFI National Archive, and was directed by Sir Ridley’s brother, the late  Tony Scott . This TV drama has been unseen since its UK transmission in 1976 and stars  Doctor Who’s  fourth T...