Open to everyone aged 16 to 25
What’s on
Panels, workshops, screenings and industry days run right through the year, across the West Midlands. You do not need to have done a course to come to them. Register with Our Hub and we will tell you what is coming up near you.
Coming up
We are opening the Hub in each area with an evening you can come to. Free, no booking needed for most, and a chance to meet the people running it.
Hereford & Worcester Launch
The first of the series. Meet the team, see work from previous cohorts, and find out how referrals work for the Hereford and Worcester course.
Registration opens shortly. Tell us you are interested and we will send you the link.
Stoke & Staffordshire Launch
For schools, colleges and youth services across north Staffordshire. How the course runs locally, who it suits, and how to refer a young person.
Registration opens shortly. Tell us you are interested and we will send you the link.
Sandwell & Birmingham Launch
Our largest catchment. An evening for partners, referrers and industry across Birmingham and the Black Country, with alumni talking about where the programme took them.
Registration opens shortly. Tell us you are interested and we will send you the link.
Walsall & Wolverhampton Launch
Closing the series. Partnership working across the Black Country, and recruitment for the Walsall and Wolverhampton course.
Registration opens shortly. Tell us you are interested and we will send you the link.
Year-round activity
A year of support to get you into the industry.
Industry panels
Near-peer sessions where working crew and recent BFI Film Academy participants talk through their roles, the skills they use daily, and how they got there.
Practical workshops
Where jobs actually get advertised, building a CV that represents you, and setting a day rate that adds up once tax, kit and downtime are in. Delivered with Mission Accomplished.
27 January · 17 February · 17 March
The wider industry
A day on the jobs beyond production, covering programming, exhibition, distribution and archive, with one-to-one time on what comes next for you specifically.
25 February
Sustainability on set
What green production really asks of a runner, with BAFTA albert and Julie’s Bicycle, including access to a Carbon Literacy accredited certificate.
25 March
More dates go up here as they are confirmed. Registering is the fastest way to hear about them first.
Want to go further?
If you are 16 to 19, a BFI Film Academy Introductory Course is a week of hands-on crew experience on a real film. See the courses running near you.
Already completed a BFI Film Academy? See what is open to alumni.