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MetFilm School launches new Leeds campus at Prime Studios

By Danny Kelly

07 October 2021

MetFilm School is delighted to announce the launch of a brand new campus in Leeds. Opening in Autumn 2022, and based at Prime Studios, MetFilm School Leeds will deliver undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

As a world-leading film, television and online media school, MetFilm School’s mission as an educational institution is to provide students with a practical, high-quality learning experience, grounded in professional industry practice and preparation. We want to ensure that Yorkshire’s thriving Film, TV and online media sector has a dynamic, talented, and diverse workforce to meet all its needs.


MetFilm School Leeds will offer the following courses from Autumn 2022:

Book now for our first MetFilm School Leeds Open Day on Fri 22 Oct at Prime Studios!


Here’s MetFilm Director, Jonny Persey, on this exciting new chapter in MetFilm School’s story…

We are so proud to be launching MetFilm School Leeds. It has long been an ambition of the School to open a campus in a second UK city. Our strategic decision making since the School’s inception some eighteen years ago has been driven by a desire to make the unique education we offer available to more people. That’s why we started running undergraduate programmes and later postgraduate programmes, and it’s why we opened in Berlin. And it is also why we are opening now in Leeds.

Supporting the Industry

Digital technologies in production and distribution, the subsequent emergence of the streamers, and the continued growth and support of the creative sector, have all made the film and tv sector across the UK ever hungrier for talented people in front and behind the camera. We are proud to do our bit in educating and supporting that talent and in turn in supporting the industry, which is why we love boasting about what our graduates are doing in industry – delve through these stories to whet your appetite.

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Connected in the North

We are already proud of our association with Yorkshire. In 2017 we helped produce the multiple award-winning and BAFTA nominated film God’s Own Country. It is indeed no accident that Yorkshire has long been described as God’s Own Country, and its picturesque locations have made it a favourite haunt for artists and filmmakers.

This is something that the industry is waking up to. Channel 4 moved its headquarters into Leeds a few weeks ago, joining ITV and BBC in having a permanent presence in the region, and a host of production companies have also made similar moves. When the industry grows, it needs space as well as talent, and the county is proud to boast several new studio developments.

One production which recognised the value of shooting in Leeds was MetFilm School tutor’s Prano Bailey-Bond’s brilliant and acclaimed film Censor, also exec-produced by another MetFilm School tutor, Naomi Wright, which was released in UK cinemas in August. This commercial interest in the production sector in Leeds is well supported by Screen Yorkshire and Leeds City Council, who are putting significant resource into supporting the sector.

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MetFilm School undergraduate and postgraduate students in production, Summer 2021

Our “Prime” location in the city

Like our London and Berlin campuses, MetFilm School’s new campus is situated in a working film studio complex – 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.

Thankfully Leeds is already a brilliant place to be a student, being one of the biggest student centres in the UK, and the campus is surrounded by student accommodation and also happens to be just a 10-minute walk from the vibrant city centre.

Practical. Creative. Connected.

We will be offering two undergraduate programmes (Content, Media and Film Production and Acting for Screen*) and three postgraduate programmes (Directing, Cinematography, and Screenwriting) from September 2022 and will offer a range of short courses to support talent gaps in the local industry.

We’re grateful for the welcome the industry is already showing us and look forward to working in this exciting space over the coming years and contributing to developments in film and tv which promise to offer careers, work, and in turn fantastic entertainment to so many.


MetFilm School Leeds will start delivering courses in Autumn 2022. Download a prospectus today!

Want to discover MetFilm School Leeds in person? Register now for our next Open Evening on Thur 3 March 2022.

Welcome to MetFilm School Leeds!