THE APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR THIS SCHEME HAS PASSED.  PLEASE DIRECT QUERIES TO: nicole.dade@atlanticfilmgroup.com

The 55th BFI London Film Festival, supported by Skillset, Adobe and The Hospital Club, is looking for 25 talented and experienced people seeking to develop their feature film career, to take part in Think-Shoot-Distribute 2011.
  
"The most incisive and relevant training I've experienced… Intensive, inspiring and highly valuable. Very well chaired, brilliantly curated and produced"
"A snapshot of life at the coalface of the film business"

Think-Shoot-Distribute is The BFI London Film Festival’s feature film talent and project development scheme.  TSD will select and help 25 talented and experienced people with a feature film project (fiction or documentary), who are working in shorts, TV, documentaries, theatre, digital media, games, arts or commercials, to develop their career, their skills, their industry knowledge, their contacts and their project. 

Successful applicants – writers, directors and producers – will take part in a 5-day training programme at The Hospital Club during the LFF (17 - 21 October) where they will meet leading filmmakers and executives in a series of workshops, discussions and master-classes exploring all areas of making feature films and the international film industry. 

TSD will encourage its filmmakers to think strategically, working with them to develop a personal project plan. Participants will meet with course leaders and industry guests in 121s before and during the training week and six months after. Participants receive Associate Delegate accreditation for The 55th BFI London Film Festival and membership of The Hospital Club for the duration of the LFF.

Previous TSD speakers have included Stephen Frears, Atom Egoyan, Tessa Ross, Christine Langan, Duncan Jones, Stuart Till, Kerry Fox, Ronan Bennett, plus executives from companies including BBC Films, UK Film Council, Lionsgate, Warp Films, Film4, Optimum Releasing, DNA, Icon and Revolution Films.


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Application deadline: 12.00pm, Friday 23 September 2011
Applicants will be advised of the outcome by 4 October

This scheme has been funded by the Skillset Film Skills Fund as part of ‘A Bigger Future 2’, the UK film skills strategy. The Skillset Film Skills Fund is supported by the National Lottery through the BFI and the film industry through the Skills Investment Fund.