MetFilm School and Industry

BIMM University validates our undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

BIMM provides university-level courses in modern music, performing arts, filmmaking, and creative technology to over 10,000 students across 18 schools in the UK, Ireland, and Germany. It has established itself as the market leader through a long-standing commitment to providing the highest quality creative industries education, allowing students to maximise their career potential.

The BIMM Group comprises BIMM Music Institute, Performers College, Northern Ballet School, MetFilm School and MetStudios. This vast network of schools provides unique opportunities for students to collaborate creatively on projects with others working across music, performing arts, TV, film and creative technology.

Sitting alongside the School, MetFilm Production is an independent production company making high-quality fiction and documentary films for theatrical audiences worldwide. Recent releases include Sundance winners The Reason I Jump and How to Change the World; critically acclaimed documentaries such as Misha and the Wolves and Last Breath, and crowd pleasers such as Swimming with Men and The Infidel.

MetFilm Production’s mission is to challenge, entertain, and inspire a global audience with fiction and non-fiction films which are both commercially and critically successful; to work with the world’s most talented storytellers, both established and emerging; and to create opportunities for the next generation of filmmakers through its partnership with MetFilm School.

MetFilm Production works closely with MetFilm Sales, a boutique international sales agency which specialises in sales of high-end single documentaries and series, and MetFilm Distribution, a boutique all rights distributor releasing a curated slate of films across the UK and Ireland.

Our productions regularly create opportunities for graduates, and over 60 MetFilm School graduates have been credited in the last six MetFilm Production films. Our work regularly feeds into curriculum through pitch forums, mentoring, guidance, masterclasses, and case studies.

We believe that you can only learn to make films by making films, and that you can only learn to make films professionally by making them in a professional environment. That principle is weaved into all aspects of our education, including our choice of locations, and it is why our main campusesare all based in studio environments.

Our London campus is based within the famous Ealing Studios, home of classic Ealing Comedies including The Ladykillers and Passport to Pimlico, and recent productions such as Last Night in Soho, The Imitation Game, and hit series including Black Mirror and Downton Abbey. We also have additional facilities in the nearby Garden Studios, more of which below.

Our Berlin campus is based in Molecule Studios. located in the Alt-Treptow district of Berlin, the studio was once home to AGFA, an internationally renowned company in the photography industries, who have been operating for over 150 years. Renovated and renamed after Berlin’s famous Molecule Man landmark, the studio is home to coworking spaces, recording studios, post-production suites and more, making it the perfect co-location for MetFilm School and BIMM University students to study and create together.

MetFilm School Leeds is situated in Prime Studios, which plays host to professional film and television productions on an ongoing basis, and is next door to ITV Studios, the home of its flagship soap Emmerdale, one of whose current directors is MetFilm School tutor, Emma Lindley.

MetFilm School Brighton operates across three locations, including Brighton Film Studios, a unique 11,000 sq. ft. facility that stands as one of the few film lots of its kind on the south coast. The studios feature two large-scale flexible film sets, two storeys of tech storage for lighting, camera, and sound equipment, a Mac editing suite equipped with the latest Avid and Adobe software, a Green Room for hair, make-up, and costume, as well as a Production Meeting Room and a Student Lounge.

As Birmingham’s first specialist film school, MetFilm School Birmingham, located in Rea Studios in the heart of Digbeth, offers students professional-standard facilities for both work and study. Sharing the studios with Performers College students, it provides a unique opportunity for collaboration on productions and the chance to build valuable, lasting industry networks.

MetFilm School Manchester is located at Riverside Studios, a 13,000 sq. ft. hub of high-spec facilities, inspiration, and limitless creativity. Just steps away from some of the city’s most dynamic industry hotspots, including Manchester Studios, ABC, and The Factory, the school places students at the heart of Manchester’s thriving media scene. With easy access to Space Studios and Media City, Screen and Film School Manchester students are immersed in the industry from day one of their undergraduate degree, gaining hands-on experience.

Garden Studios is an innovative and sustainably focused film studio specifically designed to support the latest production technologies, and situated just a few miles from the Ealing Studios campus, our London students also engage in practical activities and productions at Garden Studios.

The jewel in the Garden Studios crown is their virtual production stage. Virtual production is the future of filmmaking, the natural successor to the green screen, and the most radical technological development film has seen since the advent of digital.

MetFilm School has now partnered with the British Film Institute (BFI). Monthly guest speakers are curated exclusively for conversations with MetFilm School students in all campuses.

The BFI’s video on-demand streaming service, BFI Player, showing critically acclaimed classic, cult, and archive films at the touch of a button, is now available for free to all MetFilm School BA and MA students whilst in the UK.

If you’re one of our Berlin students, you get access instead to MUBI, where you can watch MUBI’s selection of beautiful, interesting, incredible movies, handpicked for MUBI’s 12 million members. New films are added every single day, and there is a massive catalogue to explore.

The Adobe Creative Cloud, a collection of 20+ apps for video, photography, design, web, UX, and social media, are an essential building block in film production. We work with Adobe to provide the full suite to all of our students.

Many of our courses have been awarded the ScreenSkills quality credentials, which is awarded to courses that can prove they connect with industry, and teach professional skills which ensure graduates are work-ready.

These include our BA (Hons) Filmmaking courses, and the following MA degrees:

• MA Cinematography
• MA Directing
• MA Producing
• MA Post Production
• MA Screenwriting

Our BA (Hons) Screen Acting course is a recognised Spotlight course, meaning that our students are now entitled to the Graduate Spotlight Membership. As the leading platform for professional casting for actors in the UK, membership to this organisation can only be granted to a graduate from an accredited school, or a working actor with a certain number of professional credits.

The Graduate Spotlight Membership immediately makes graduates more appealing to a higher calibre of acting agents, and includes support, content, and events specifically tailored towards their needs.

We are proud to be among the distinguished schools worldwide that are fully members of the CILECT (Centre International de Liason des Ecoles des Cinéma et de Télévision), the international organisation of Film and TV schools around the world.

Soundsnap is a professional online sound and stock music library, featuring high-quality sound effects, loops, and stock music from professional sound designers and cutting edge music professionals. We work with Soundsnap to provide access to their music library for BA & MA students across all campuses.

The Mark Milsome Foundation is inspired by the achievements and character of Mark Milsome, a camera operator who was killed while filming a car stunt in Ghana on 18 November 2017.

The Foundation helps to deliver Health & Safety training for both newcomers to the industry and seasoned professionals.

MetFilm School is proud to have the Mark Milsome Foundation’s Health & Safety Course, accredited by Screen Skills, as mandatory training for all accredited students.

Deep Sky Games is a democratically-run, worker-owned cooperative game studio in Berlin, starting production on their debut unannounced title.

Besides their own work, Deep Sky also provides game development and creative services to external clients, with a special focus on VR/XR.

As a company, Deep Sky Games is committed to proving that creativity flourishes when the humans that work to realise a vision together are healthy and happy. Happy people make amazing things.

We work with Deep Sky Games to provide work experience opportunities to our MetStudios students in Berlin.

Electric Square are a game development studio founded by industry veterans Jon Gibson and Tony Beckwith. Based in Brighton, Electric Square sparked into life as sister studio to the renowned Studio Gobo, which won a gamesindustry.biz ‘Best places to work in the UK’. In 2018, Electric Square was proud to join the Keywords Studios group.

We work with Electric Square to provide work experience opportunities to our MetFilm and MetStudios students in Berlin.

Be The Fox is an award-winning brand content production company that produces exceptional, story-led content that helps brands and organisations remain culturally relevant. They’re also specialists in telling brand stories through animation and motion graphics.

Founded in 2018 by three members of the award-winning UNILAD video team, Odd Drawer Digital/ODD Films are a Manchester-based, globally working production company that offers a hybrid solution to narrative storytelling and content creation.

With an extensive list of clients from Sky, Vauxhall and Manchester United to name a few, ODD pride itself on creating engaging stories across scripted, and unscripted for terrestrial and social audiences alike.

Polari is an award-winning, Manchester-based production company that champions the rich tapestry of queer and marginalised lives through the mediums of film, television, and more.

Banijay stands as the largest international content producer and distributor; home to over 120 production companies across 22 territories, and a multi-genre catalogue boasting over 95,000 hours of original standout programming.

The prominent Manchester companies that they work with are; Dragonfly, Kudos, Remarkable, Shine, Tiger Aspect and Workerbee. They produce all kinds of programming such as; Broadchurch, Ambulance, Panorama, and Masterchef.

Workerbee is factual broadcast TV production company in Manchester and Leeds, specialising in gripping and globally reaching stories that fascinate and entertain.

MetFilm School Manchester has secured exclusive access to placements with The Mob Film Co, the multi-award-winning production company headquartered in Manchester, with a specialist sports division, Mob Sport. For over 20 years they have been producing award-winning content for global brands, agencies, rights holders and consumers. Working with the industry’s best directors, creatives and crews, establishing themselves as a global production company.

Optomen is an independent television production company who loves making bright, bold shows that matter.

A world-class factual entertainment television production company active in Birmingham for nearly 25 years, making shows for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery. North One has an exciting slate that includes several returnable series such as The Gadget Show, Fifth Gear, and Travel Man, as well as over 60 hours of programming (so far) featuring lorry mechanic, motorbike racer and daredevil Guy Martin.

Featuring a diverse range of thought-provoking films ranging from music videos, feature films, short narratives, and animation the film festival supports up-and-coming filmmakers who resonate strongly with the ethos and ambitions of MetFilm School Birmingham.

MetFilm School sponsors the ‘Best Screenplay’ and ‘Best First Time Filmmaker’ awards.

Twitter is an online news and social networking provider where users post messages known as tweets. At Twitter, they believe in free expression, and that every voice has the power to impact the world. It is a forum that covers breaking news, entertainment, sports, and politics, from big events to everyday interests.

Twitter is where the world sees what’s happening. Our users love seeing stories told in innovative ways. Working with ScreenSpace to enable the next generation of creative storytellers to develop their skills seemed like a perfect union. We’re excited about what the future holds for students of ScreenSpace.

Dara NasrManaging Director, Twitter UK

Created in February 2005, YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users.

As of May 2019, there were more than 500 hours of content uploaded to YouTube each minute, and one billion hours of content being watched on YouTube every day.

An American television and film producer and distributor that is a subsidiary of Amazon. It specialises in developing television series and distributing and producing films.

Storyville is a series from BBC Four, showcasing the best in international documentaries. It is now available to stream on BBC iPlayer.

Now part of Accenture Interactive, Karmarama has stood out to be the UK’s most progressive creative agency. They are known for combining creative excellence with technology-inspired solutions.

At Karmarama we pride ourselves on being the most progressive and forward-thinking creative business in the market. With that in mind, we are delighted to partner with the team at ScreenSpace to help deliver the most progressive and forward thinking creative production degree programme in the market. We are excited about the talent we will help to develop.

Jon WilkinsChairman, Karmarama

3iS are a leading audio-visual school in Europe with courses covering: image and sound; cinema; technical and stage management; 2D and 3D animation; video games; and multimedia graphic design.

With campuses based in Paris and Bordeaux, 3iS specialises in hands-on practical training, guided and taught by industry professionals.

With campuses across Norway, including Belgium and Oslo, Noroff has been educating and training digital forensic researchers, film photographers and producers, 3D animators, graphic designers, digital marketers, games designers, system administrators, and music producers, among others, for several decades.

Based in Copenhagen, Ørestad Gymansium is one of Denmark’s leading high schools with a special profile focusing on media, communications, and culture.

They offer specialised study programmes within the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.

With a reputation as a highly practical and industry-focused provider, Toronto Film School specialises in delivering a range of programmes, including online, and across film, television, theatre, fashion, graphic design, and video games design.

The University of West London validates our undergraduate and postgraduate courses in London, Berlin, and Leeds.

MetFilm School London students have access to the many learning and other facilities of the University of West London’s Union (UWLSU) when they enrol. This includes access to the union bar, sports activities, student-run special interest societies, and a UK ‘TOTUM’ card for student discounts.

In 2018, MetFilm School and the University of West London partnered together to create a series of degrees providing students with practical courses focusing on production skills alongside learning experiences immersed in the film and media business. To learn more about this partnership, please visit this page.

A prestigious organisation based in one of the busiest and most thriving film locations in the world, with alumni including Neil Blomakmp (District 9) and Kevin Smith (Clerks), and regularly lauded as one of the best film schools in the world by The Hollywood Reporter, the VFS is a leading institute delivering immersive and highly practical diploma programmes and other courses.

VFS students can undertake a diploma and be eligible to apply for one of MetFilm School’s postgraduate courses.

Whistling Woods is one of India’s premiere film and creative arts institutes, based in Mumbai, delivering a range of diploma and degree courses in film production, media, and communications, acting, and animation.

Whistling Woods is regularly listed as one of the best film schools in the world by The Hollywood Reporter.

With over 55,000 students worldwide, and over 300,000+ alumni, York University is Canada’s third largest university. With faculty across most disciplines, their school of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design is a premiere destination for the development of creative talents across the arts.