Studying in London
In any given week through the year there are probably more films showing for London’s seven million inhabitants than in any other capital city. The school is situated in the centre, in Covent Garden, within walking distance of West End cinemas and theatres, the Royal Opera House, the National Gallery, the British Museum, the British Film Institute Library, the National Film Theatre, the Tate Modern and, even closer, Wardour Street in Soho, nerve centre of the British Film Industry.
Both the MA Filmmaking and MA Screenwriting courses are validated by the London Metropolitan University. Students are issued with an LMU Student ID Card, which enables you to use some of their facilities, including Sports and Leisure, IT and Computer studio, libraries and their ‘Walk in’ counselling service.
Central London offers LFS students access to many informal film and media groups, events and opportunities, and the school often hosts events in collaboration with like-minded film organisations. All LFS students are members of International Students House (ISH) and can take advantage of the facilities and events they offer. Facilities include a Fitness Centre, Welfare and Advice Service, Internet Café, Bars and Restaurant. Social events run throughout each term and include cultural evenings, lectures and debates, parties and subsidised travel trips in the UK and overseas.
Sixth Term students participate in a mentoring scheme with ‘honorary executive producers’ drawn from the London independent film community, and there are many other occasions earlier in the course to benefit from the richness of the local film culture. Of course London also offers the thousands of locations, people and stories that feature in screenplays and documentary treatments for the school’s film exercises.
Students are admitted free to any of the many film programes at the National Film Theatre when space permits.
London information
- This is London
- The British Council
- Film London
- UK film council
- BFI
- Time Out Magazine.
- The Council for International Education
- London Metropolitan University
- International Students House (ISH)
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