“The opportunity to meet and learn from some of the main players working in cinema has proved invaluable, and greatly aided my career trajectory!”
– Rob Baker, Cinema Marketing Manager, Barbican
“The course had a significant impact on helping me to understand our audience better and how to reach them, and it helped to shape our programmes into accessible and more attractive packages.”
– Verena von Stackelberg, Head of Public Events, Curzon Cinemas
Do you know your 39 Steps from your 27 Dresses?
Your Lust, Caution from your Sex and the City?
This internationally acclaimed course returns, offering a unique training opportunity for people working in the cultural cinema exhibition sector, either in a voluntary or professional capacity, who want to enhance their skills, develop their knowledge and increase their understanding of the business of film programming.
This is an intensive, two week course comprising talks, screenings, group exercises and tutorials. It is taught by experienced professionals from cinemas, film festivals and related organisations.
The course covers:
- UK exhibition and distribution
- Technical aspects of film, video and digital formats
- Print rights and clearances
- Programming for independent cinemas, film festivals, TV and non-theatrical venues
- Understanding audiences: children, young people, disability and cultural diversity
- Marketing and PR for specialised film
- Commercial exhibition
- Print rights and clearances
- Commercial exhibition
- Archive films, shorts and artists’ moving image
Graduates from this course have gone on to fill key posts in the industry at organisations including the BFI London Film Festival, UK Film Council, Soda Pictures, City Screen, the Barbican, Northern Lights Film Festival, Scottish Screen and Curzon Cinemas.
Fees:
£725 (£617.02 + VAT) *
Bursary funding applications are now closed.
* Please note that this rate is only available to applicants who can demonstrate professional experience in the film industry, either paid or voluntary and not necessarily continuous. This is a requirement of Skillset’s Continuing Professional Development scheme which is supporting the course. If you do not have any film industry experience but would like to undertake the course for personal or professional reasons, the non-subsidised rate is £2,071.26 (£1,762.78 + VAT).
This project is funded by the Skillset Film Skills Fund, which is supported by the National Lottery through the UK Film Council and the film industry through the Skills Investment Fund. Skillset is the Sector Skills Council for the Audio Visual Industries – www.skillset.org.