Education & training

The UK has a large number of organisations offering training in filmmaking and related areas. There are courses in full time education as well as organisations offering professional, vocational training designed for freelance technicians and production crew. Click here for the British Council Film for more information.

Please direct all training and skills related enquiries such as festival attendance, training courses, etc to Creative England. Click here for more information.

The East of England's colleges, universities and institutions offer a range of film and media courses. This page offers a small selection. Please contact the institutions direct for information. Film Link accepts no responsibility for the course content, and is not resourced to give filming and digital media education or training related advice or guidance.

International residential workshop
- Screen Writing for Writers & Producers

There is an opportunity to spend two intensive days in Odense (Denmark) with experienced multi award winning author, screenwriter and director Brendan Foley, Hollywood production heavyweight Ned Dowd and producer and film executive, Lars Hermann. The workshop will be in English and cover screenwriting issues in general but will also cover adaptation of novels.

The workshop is aimed at reasonably experienced writers with limited or some experience with screen writing and producers interested in knowing more about the screenwriting process and interaction with writers. For more information download the flyer below.

Screenwriting for Writers and Producers is a joint venture between FilmFyn and Odense International Filmfestival, Denmark and nordmedia, Germany. It is funded by North Sea Screen Partners, an Interreg IVb
programme.

Screen Writers Workshop - Invitation

TV & Film Production Courses at Elstree Film Studios

Elstree Film School is a film production training facility based at Elstree Film Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. They teach a variety of Film, TV and new media related courses ranging from film-making, lighting, camera operation and video, to TV & Film scriptwriting, screenwriting, music and sound design courses.

Click here to visit their website or telephone on 0844 844 2428. Email: enquiries@elstree-film-school.co.uk.

The University of Hertfordshire

The University of Hertfordshire offers a range of film and digital media courses in a modern campus setting. Just 20 minutes from London by train the university campus has extensive facilities which are are a major attraction for students and staff. As well as traditional 2D and 3D design studios they offer media workshops. A purpose-built £10.5 million Digital Facilities Building provides 4,500 square metres of work space for the expanding range of media activities which includes:

computer aided design and modeling
digital animation
rapid prototyping
web software
video and moving image

Click here for the range of courses available and to find out who to contact for more information.

Exemplas

Exemplas has vast expertise in a wide range of services to organisations to enhance performance and influence success. These include leadership and management development, skills and training, change management, environmental review and assessment, management systems support, enterprise, diversity and many more.

Exemplas is part of the University of Hertfordshire Group of Companies – one of the most progressive education, learning and development groups in the UK.

To discuss how Exemplas can help you, please telephone 0845 60 20 101 or email info@exemplas.com. Alternatively click here to visit their website.

The Advanced Apprenticeship in Creative and Digital Media

West Herts College in Watford, Hertfordshire is a Skillset Media Academy offering the new advanced Apprenticeship in Creative and Digital Media. The apprenticeship is a nationally recognised qualification to recruit and train a workforce. West Herts College has introduced a roll-on, roll-off programme which means organisations can employ apprentices at any point in the year and are not bound to an academic calendar. In addition, the major part of the apprenticeship is delivered in the workplace eliminating the need for learners to come to college.

For more information, please call Assad Razzaq, Employer Engagement, West Herts College on telephone 01923 812 048, or email assad.razzaq@westherts.ac.uk.