Alumni Opportunities
Industry Next Steps
Completed a BFI Film Academy? Then You’re Our Hub Alumni!
If you’ve done a BFI Film Academy course anywhere in the UK, you’re aged 16 to 25 and you live in the West Midlands, alumni opportunities are part of your free Hub membership.
Sessions, experiences and opportunities built to grow your skills, your understanding of how the industry works and your confidence to progress into film, TV and the creative industries. Travel bursaries help you get to alumni events, so you can be there in person.
What Alumni Opportunities Give You
How the Industry Actually Works
Get inside the roles that make up a crew, and what it really takes to land one. Straight from people doing those jobs now: how they got in, what they wish someone had told them, and an honest read on which routes are worth your time.
Industry Mixers
An evening of film and good company. A working filmmaker shows something they love and talks honestly about how their career really went, then everyone stays to talk. A proper night out, and one of the easiest ways to meet people who do this for a living.
Industry Placements
Shadow and work alongside professionals on real productions: on set, in a festival programming office, wherever the work actually happens. Someone is there looking after you throughout. With Rural Studios, Flatpack Film Festival and BFI NETWORK.
First Contact
Your CV and your portfolio are the first thing anyone sees of you, usually long before they meet you. How to make both of them land, including how to talk about work you did as one part of a crew, which is the bit everybody finds hard.
Essential Freelancing
Most film and TV work is freelance, and nobody hands you a guide to it. Rates, invoices, tax and the admin side, so the business bit stops being the thing that catches you out.
Looking After Yourself
Working with the Film & TV Charity on how to stay well in an industry of long hours and short contracts. Spotting when something is not right, knowing what you are entitled to, and where to go for real support.
Our Hub Community
Our community is where it carries on between events: a space to ask questions openly, share what you’re making and learn from people a few steps ahead of you. It’s open to every Hub member, from our year-round programme to our BFI Film Academy alumni.
Join as Alumni
Register with Our Hub and let us know you’re BFI Film Academy alumni. On an Introductory Course right now? Alumni opportunities are yours when you finish.
Not Done a Course Yet?
Start with a free BFI Film Academy Introductory Course: six course days on your own film set and a screening to celebrate the film you make. Over 19? Year-Round Activity is open to you now.