BFI Future Film Festival
Date Posted: February 9, 2022
The BFI Future Film Festival is the UK’s largest festival for young, emerging filmmakers. The festival runs from Thursday 17th – Sunday 20th February with events and screenings taking place both online and in-venue at the BFI Southbank. The festival is for aspiring filmmakers aged 16 to 25 who want to progress and learn from people already experienced in film and the screen industries.
Whether you’ve just shot some footage on a smartphone, already have a couple of short films under your belt, or aspire to have a career creating screen content, BFI Future Film is the festival for you.
The festival programme has been carefully curated to help you:
- develop your storytelling and filmmaking skills
- explore your filmmaking style and different genres
- understand career pathways in the screen industry
- find career and training opportunities
- consider what next steps to take
- network and find your community
- get to know the work of other young filmmakers
- feel inspired to make your own projects!
Industry events
Each day the festival will host a number of events focused on a specific area of film and the screen industries. There will be panel discussions with industry experts, masterclasses, workshops, discussions, keynotes and interviews. This year will also see the return of the marketplace, a trade show where attendees can interact with and learn about companies and learning institutions from across the industry.
The online programme is completely free and accessible outside the UK allowing us to reach a worldwide audience for those events.
Films
There will be a full programme of 50 short films made by filmmakers aged 16 to 25. Check out our full film programme here. Films will be available for free on the BFI Player from Thursday 17th February until Thursday 3rd March.
Awards
This year’s BFI Future Film Festival awards ceremony will present prizes in 10 categories on Sunday 20th February. These prizes are judged by industry representatives, including a high-profile jury who choose the Best Film, Best Director, and Best New Talent awards. Stay tuned for more information on the film nominations and our jury.
For more information, click HERE.
