National Film and Television School

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National Film and Television School


Established:	1971
Location:	Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Affiliations:	CILECT
Website:	www.nfts.co.uk

The National Film and Television School (NFTS) was established in 1971 and is based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, 25 miles west of London, and close to some of the UK's major film studios, such as Pinewood Studios.

1 Funding
2 Courses of studies
- 2.1 Full-time courses
- 2.2 Short courses
3 Staff
4 Facilities
5 Notable alumni (selection)
6 External links

[edit] Funding

Until its repeal in 1986, the school was funded partly through a tax on cinema ticket sales known as the Eady Levy, named after then UK Treasury official Sir Wilfred Eady. The NFTS has since been funded by the UK Government, via (today) the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the television and film industries.

Key Partner Sponsors include main UK terrestrial and satellite broadcasting companies BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, BSkyB, S4C, Discovery Networks Europe and the Film Distributors' Association. In addition, a large number of public and private donors fund scholarships to assist (chiefly British and EU) students.

[edit] Courses of studies

[edit] Full-time courses

The NFTS offers the following two-year MA courses validated by the Royal College of Art:

Animation Direction
Cinematography
Composing for Film and Television
Digital Post-Production
Directing Fiction
Documentary Direction
Editing
Producing
Producing and Directing Television Entertainment
Production Design
Screenwriting
SFX/VFX
Sound Post Production

and the following one-year Diploma courses:

Editing (Television Entertainment)
Production Management
Script Development (in association with The Script Factory)
Sound Recording for Film and Television

The NFTS also runs a Documentary Summer School - summerdocs - every year.

[edit] Short courses

Shortcourses at NFTS regularly run short courses for professionals working in the film and television industries - covering the following areas:

Producing and Production
Camera and Lighting
Sound and Editing
Writing and Directing
Art and Design
Scriptwriting
Legal and Business

[edit] Staff

The school has around 100 full-time staff as well as many top tutors from within the industry, such as Stephen Frears (Fiction Direction), Brian Tufano (Cinematography) and Kim Longinotto (Documentary Direction); (The Day I Will Never Forget, Divorce Iranian Style, Shinjuku Boys).

The school's director is British film producer Nik Powell (Ladies in Lavender, The Crying Game). Its president is Lord Richard Attenborough, and current chairman is Michael Kuhn, producer of Being John Malkovich and once Head of Polygram.

Governors include well known children’s presenter Floella Benjamin, Tim Bevan of Working Title Films, Duncan Kenworthy of Toledo Productions and Sophie Turner-Laing of Sky Networks.

[edit] Facilities

The school's facilities are to be expanded with the addition of new teaching spaces, public spaces and a new cinema, designed by Glenn Howells Architects and Buro Happold.