MetFilm Futures masterclasses give our students an opportunity to learn from high-profile creative industry players. We invite famous filmmakers as well as representatives from new media and commercial sector, to share their knowledge and insight with young creative professionals.
- Bryan Cranston: Actor, Producer (Breaking Bad, Godzilla, Malcolm in the Middle) Read more
- Gethin Anthony: Actor (Game of Thrones, Call the Midwife, Aquarius)
- Noel Clarke: Actor, Director (Kidulthood, Adulthood)
- Daniel Mays: Actor (Rogue One, Mr. Nobody, The Bank Job)
- Jack O’Connell: Actor (Unbroken, ’71, Skins, 300: Rise of an Empire)
- Kevin Macdonald: Director (Whitney, The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void)
- Armando Iannucci: Acclaimed Satirist, Director, Writer and Showrunner (Veep, The Thick of It, Alan Partridge) Read more
- James Marsh: Oscar-winning Director (The Theory Of Everything)
- David Yates: Director (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Legend of Tarzan, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)
- Stephen Frears: Director (The Queen, Philomena, Florence Foster Jenkins, High Fidelity)
- Paul Webster: Producer (Locke, Atonement)
- Peter Czernin: Producer (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths)
- Iain Smith: Producer (The Fifth Element, Mad Max:Fury Road)
- Pawel Pawlikowski: Oscar-winning Director (Ida, The Summer of Love, Cold War, Last Resort)
- Sarah Gavron: Director (Suffragette)
- John Landis: Director (The Blue Brothers, An American Werewolf in London, Burke and Hare)
- Sir Alan Parker: Director (Evita, Midnight Express, The Commitments)
- Jon East: Director (Killing Eve, Lost in Space, Downton Abbey)
- Scott Z Burns: Writer (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Informant, Contagion)
- Hossein Amini: Writer/Director (Drive, The Two Faces of January, 47 Ronin, Snow White and the Huntsman)
- Neil Landau: Hollywood Writer (Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, Melrose Place, Doogie Howser M.D)
- Desiree Akhavan: Writer, Director, Actress (Appropriate Behaviour, The Slope)
- Chris Morris: Writer/Director (The Day Today, Jam, Four Lions, Brass Eye)
- Max Elliot Lovell: Cinematographer, Gaffer, Camera Operator (Mary Poppins Returns, Murder on the Orient Express, Tolkien)
- Marta Baidek: VFX Coordinator (Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, Ready Player One, Alien: Covenant)
- William Alexander Boyd III: Director, Writer, Producer (The Trespasser)
- Valerio Bonelli: Award-Winning Editor (Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Philomena, Florence Foster Jenkins) Read more
- IIene Starger: Acclaimed Casting Director (School of Rock, Sleepy Hollow and The Parent Trap). Read more
- Lucy Banks: Head of Content Solutions (Brand Solutions & Innovation at Google EMEA). Read more
- Mike Ladouceur: Composer, Orchestrator and Producer (Mission Impossible: Fallout, The Emoji Movie, Call the Midwife
- Philip Ilson: Festival Programmer (Artistic Director – London Short Film Festival, Short Film Programmer – BFI London Film Festival)
- Charlie Phillips: Head of Documentary, The Guardian (Black Sheep, The Breadmaker<e/m>)
- Damian Kavanagh: Controller, BBC 3. Read more
- Jon Wilkins: Chairman of the UK’s largest independent communications agency Karmarama
- Frank Spotnitz: Television Showrunner (The X-Files)
- Adrian Hodges: Television Showrunner (The Musketeers)
- Joanna Strevens: Head of Development, Carnival Films
- David Sheldon-Hicks: Screen Graphics Artist, VFX Artist (Ex Machina, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Dark Knight, Prometheus)
- Berwyn Rowlands: Festival founder and CEO, The Iris Prize Festival
