London Film School

🤩 It’s here! London Film School’s 2025 Graduate Showcase at the BFI Southbank. We’re kicking off the week with some incredible MA Filmmaking screenings.

Welcome to everyone who is coming along this week, you’re in for a real treat! 🎥✨

Thanks to our sponsors Sargent-Disc , Casarotto Ramsay and Associates, and Panavision for their support in our student awards.

🤩 It’s here! London Film School’s 2025 Graduate Showcase at the BFI Southbank. We’re kicking off the week with some incredible MA Filmmaking screenings.

Welcome to everyone who is coming along this week, you’re in for a real treat! 🎥✨

Thanks to our sponsors Sargent-Disc , Casarotto Ramsay and Associates, and Panavision for their support in our student awards.

Beginners Film School - aged 18-22? Get a head start here🎥✨🤩

🎬 Be one of 12 young filmmakers from around the globe to take part in our intensive director training!
A two-week intensive practical filmmaking course that will equip you with the skills and experience for the first steps on your filmmaking journey.

🎞️You’ll have the chance to direct, write, shoot, and edit your own short film with the help of a professional cast and crew at the UK’s FIRST film school.

📍Budding young filmmakers are invited to elevate their skills in the heart of London, one of Hollywood’s offshore hubs for high-budget productions!

📆 Fri 4 Apr 2025 to Thu 17 Apr 2025
📍 London Film School
⏰ 09:30 - 17:30
🔗 More info in the link https://lfs.org.uk/workshops/lfs-workshops/beginners-summer-school

Beginners Film School - aged 18-22? Get a head start here🎥✨🤩

🎬 Be one of 12 young filmmakers from around the globe to take part in our intensive director training!
A two-week intensive practical filmmaking course that will equip you with the skills and experience for the first steps on your filmmaking journey.

🎞️You’ll have the chance to direct, write, shoot, and edit your own short film with the help of a professional cast and crew at the UK’s FIRST film school.

📍Budding young filmmakers are invited to elevate their skills in the heart of London, one of Hollywood’s offshore hubs for high-budget productions!

📆 Fri 4 Apr 2025 to Thu 17 Apr 2025
📍 London Film School
⏰ 09:30 - 17:30
🔗 More info in the link https://lfs.org.uk/workshops/lfs-workshops/beginners-summer-school

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📣❗️Introducing our brand-new course, MA Film Producing.

💻 Creative development, project management and delivery, business affairs and business skills are all key skills in our NEW one year MA Film Producing course.

💻 Learn the core competences required of a professional film producer and be immersed in the creative hothouse of student directors, screenwriters, and cinematographers at LFS and its two filmmaking studio buildings in Covent Garden.

🔗 Find out more here https://lfs.org.uk/full-time-study/ma-film-producing

📆 Applications open Monday 20 January for a September intake.

🏆 Celebrating more award wins and festival screenings! Read on for the details…

Congratulations to 🎞️The Farm for winning the Best Fiction award at Novella Film Festival and for winning the audience prize (Prix du Public Europe) at the Brest European Short Film Festival. Well done!
Writer-Director : Leo House, Producers: Victor Nauwynck, Nathan Legger.

🎞️Broken Hearts, is now available to stream online on the platform Director's Note.
Writer-Director: Julie Magnaudet, Prod: Nathan Legger, DoP: Bo Giesen, Editor: Tsz Wai Ling.

Congratulations to 🎞️Praeis, for winning the University Short Film Award at the last edition of the Hamptons International Film Festival. The film also obtained a Special mention at the European Film Festival Scanorama in Vilnius.
Writer-Dir: Dovydas Draksas, Producer: Jing Zhao, Production Designer: Anastasiya Mykhaylova, DoP: Tamás Apor Méder, Editor: Dovydas Draksas, Camera Assistant: Yinghui Jing.

🎞️Rickshaw, will be screened at the incoming HollyShorts Film Festival at the Curzon Soho in London.
Writer-Director: Raphael Hernandez, Prod: Anastasia Savinova, Raphael Hernandez, Jaina Liu, Spandana Patanaik, Editor: Mengyao Zhang, DoP: Eng Teck Ng.

🎞️Matterhorn, will be also screened this week at the HollyShorts Film Festival.
Writer-Director: Anne Madeleine Mancosu, Prod: Florian Kasperski, Spandana Patanaik, Production Manager: Julie Magnaudet, Assistant Dir: Maya Wills, DoP: Fyras Slaiman.

🎞️Ten Days, was screened at the last edition of the North East International Film Festival in Belfast.
Writer-Director: Anastasia Savinova, DoP: Norbert Strehle, Producer: Alisa Tritenko, Anastasia Savinova, Editor: Razvan Barseti.

🎞️Poet, will be screened at the Macau International Short Film Festival.
Writer-Dir: Kun Sun, Co-Producer: Xianhe Wang, Producer: Haoyuxuan Liu.

🎞️Thread Tension, was screened at the festival Bogoshort in Bogotà.
Writer-Director: Ruby Mastrodimos, Prod. Oliver Staton, Editor: Benjamin Sivo, Producer: Henry Hayton Iles.

🎞️Sparare alle Angurie, was screened at International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! It has also been officially selected for the festival Passaggi d'Autore and for the first edition of the festival Corto Condorello in Rome.
Writer-Dir-Editor: Antonio Donato, Prod: Patrick Verlin, DoP: Sahil Kotwani, Prod. Designer: Anastasiya Mykhaylova.

📣❗️Introducing our new, MA Film Marketing, a one year MA programme starting in September 2025.

📈 The one-year MA Film Marketing programme incorporates all aspects of B2B and B2C marketing strategies, from key art design and promotional trailers to media, publicity and social media plans, supported by realistic budgeting and forecasting.

📈Across five modules of study, the MA Film Marketing explores planning and ex*****on of effective marketing campaigns in the creative environment of filmmakers and screenwriters.

📌Learn more at https://lfs.org.uk/full-time-study/ma-film-marketing/ma-film-marketing Link in bio

📆 Applications open on 20 January for a September 2025 intake.

🙌 A big congratulations to Screenwriting alumna and visiting lecturer, Roisin Agnew, who’s short film 🎞️ The Ban, has been shortlisted for BAFTA Best British Short Film!

🎬 Written and directed by Roisin, the documentary reflects on the British government’s use of the threat of ‘terrorism’ to justify censorship, drawing inevitable comparisons with the present.

During the conflict in the north of Ireland a practice developed that saw actors hired to dub those associated with the IRA on broadcast media. The Ban depicts unseen archive footage and present-day interviews with key figures such as Gerry Adams and Stephen Rea.

We wish you all the best of luck

2024 has come to an end and what a fantastic year it has been! Join us as we reminisce on some highlights.

🎥 A live action student film selected at Cannes Film Festival for the third year in a row!
🏳️‍🌈 Grad and alumni films shortlisted for the Iris Prize, streaming on Film4 & Channel 4
🎬 Alumni and grad films streaming on Disney+ and Omeleto
🏆 Oscar nominations... and so much more!

We are so incredibly proud of our students and alumni, and we can’t wait to see what 2025 brings. Here's to another brilliant year 🥂✨

What was your favourite moment of 2024? Let us know in the comments! 💬

📸 credits:
Praeis, writer-director: Dovydas Draksas
A Thousand Blows, creator: Steven Knight
Yellow, writer-director: Elham Ehsas
Room Taken, director: TJ O'Grady-Peyton
I Hope He Doesn’t Kill Me, directors: Lyndon Henley Hanrahan and Nora Dahle Borchgrevink
Sucking Diesel, writer-director: Sam McGrath
Divine Intervention, director: Ravenna Tran
Saving Art, writer-director: Remi Moses
Fremont, writer-director: Babak Jalali
All, Or Nothing At All, writer-director: Jiajun ‘Oscar’ Zhang

#2024

🎬 Big news from London Film School! 🎉 We're thrilled to announce the launch of TWO brand-new Master's courses:

🎥 MA Film Marketing – Master the art of promoting stories that captivate audiences worldwide.
🎬 MA Film Producing – Shape the future of cinema, from script to screen.

Applications open on 20 January for a September 2025 intake! Ready to ignite your passion for film? 🌟

👉 Discover more:

MA Film Producing here https://lfs.org.uk/full-time-study/ma-film-producing

MA Film Marketing here https://lfs.org.uk/full-time-study/ma-film-marketing/course-overview

🙌 We’re pleased to share another significant milestone for Leticia Tonos 🎞️ AIRE, Just Breathe.
In addition to its selection for the Big Screen Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the film was chosen to represent the Dominican Republic as a candidate for the 2025 Oscars in the Best International Feature Film category. A brilliant achievement! 🎉

🎞️ AIRE, Just Breathe is also competing for the Best Ibero-American Film award at the 39th Goya Awards 2025. Congrats Leticia and the team!

📸 credit:
AIRE, Just Breathe, 🎬writer-director: Leticia Tonos

Want to find out a little about how to get into film school? Screenwriting student, Shaarath has shared his experiences of the application process that secured his place at London Film School.

Read on on our blog and if you'd like too speak to one of our screenwriting or filmmaking students to find out more, visit the website and ask a student.

LINK IN BIO
https://lfs.org.uk/full-time-study/ask-a-student?unibuddy=blog/post/67602c2d728dc44ea7414a3b

🎬 Cow of Fire (dir: Vasco de Oliveira)

🎥 Master the Art of Visual Storytelling: A Weekend Workshop for Filmmakers.

🎬An accessible course with an exclusive chance to get a one to one with an experienced filmmaker.

ℹ️ Discover the secrets of cinematic storytelling in this immersive 2-day workshop led by acclaimed director Josh Appignanesi.

📆 Saturday 11 January & Sunday 12 January 2025 : In person workshop in central London.

📸 Learn how to craft compelling shots through composition, framing, and movement, and explore how editing and visual systems create suspense and emotional depth.

🎞️ Dive into practical exercises, analyze film genres, and unlock what makes a filmmaker’s style unique.

🎬Whether you’re a director, writer, or producer, this hands-on workshop will equip you with the skills to tell unforgettable stories visually.

🗣️Testimonial 2024

“It was packed full of information that I have never had access to in any workshops I’ve done previously. It was so focused on and stuck to the themes of the workshop so well, that I felt like we had learnt a whole module from university after one weekend…”

❓Who is it for ?

▪️Beginner or aspiring filmmakers wanting to sharpen your visual language.
▪️Filmmakers who have a bit of experience under their belt but want to develop their visual story telling skills.
▪️People who want to progress potentially into Masters degree skills.
▪️People in the content creation space who want to use that aspect of filmmaking language in their videography.

🎟️ See our link for more information and booking.
🔗 https://lfs.org.uk/workshops/lfs-workshops/127/visual-storytelling-introduction-directors-writers-producers

📸Credit: Still and BTS:
🎞️Broken Hearts, by Julie Magnaudet

🏆Celebrating wins & screenings for our grads & alumni 🎥

🎉Congratulations to 🎞️Invocation, for winning Best International Short Fiction Award the Night Award at the London Breeze Film Festival!
🎬(Writer-Director: Lu Lu, Producer: Zhao Wu, Producer: Jiayin Bao, DOP: Yue Pan, Production Designer: Ziyan Gao, Editor: Zheng Wei) Well done!

🎞️Nostalgia, screened at the Leeds International Film Festival in the Louis le Prince, International Short Film Competition and screened at the Cornwall Film Festival 2024 in the Best Student Short Films Program.
🎬(Writer-Director: Boyuan Li, Producers: Ming Huang, Boyuan Li, Editors: Ming Huang, Boyuan Li)

🎥 Bafta qualifying Norwich Film Festival 2024 will be also screening two films produced by the LFS:
🎞️ Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite
🎬(Writer-Director: Kelly Diapère, Producer: Jules Thin, Assistant Director: Jules Thin, Co-Producer: Amanda Salvati, Amanda Kelly Diapère, DoP: Lucas Boetsch)

🎞️Horse in a Blue Tuxedo,
🎬(Writer-Director: Holden Boyles, DoP: Moritz Lips, Producer: Juan Antonio Barroso Lopez)

🎞️ Outside Of Time, will be screened at at 32nd International Film Festival,
Energa CameraImage.
🎬(Writer-Director: Elitsa Marielle, Camera Assistant: Yanting Chen, Editor: Aymée Hamon)

🎥 The London Lift-Off Film Festival hosted the screening of two LFS film this year:
🎞️16,
🎬(Writer-Director: Ryan Kochberg, DoP: Ryan Kochberg, Assistant Dir: Thomas Derbyshire at the Hidden Film Festival Worldwide 2024)
and 🎞️ Don't Let The Bedbugs Bite.
The latter has been also screened at the last edition of San Francisco Indie Fest.

🏆🎉Huge congrats also to The 🎞️ Farm, for winning the audience prize (Prix du Public Europe) at the Brest European Short Film Festival.
🎬(Writer-Director : Leo House, Producers: Victor Nauwynck, Nathan Legger)�🎉Well done!

🎞️ The Bull, will be screening at Pöff Shorts Tallinn, at the next edition of European Film Festival Scanorama in Vilnius and at the Leuven International Short Film Festival.
🎬(Writer-Director: Victor Nauwynck, Producer: Siddharth Bala Kumar, Editor: Tsz Wai Ling, Production Designer: Anastasiya Mykhaylova)

🎞️ The Penitential Act, is screening at the North East International Film Festival.
🎬(Writer-Director: Ben Packwood, DOP: Yanxiang Qiu, Production Designer: Elitsa Marielle, Editor: Alexander Emborg, Production Manager: Megha Bhaduri, Assistant Director: Joseph Dominic)