Metfilm School
Career Support
Overview
At MetFilm School, we concentrate on employability right from the start, and all students and graduates of the School get access to our dedicated careers advice department, Creative Futures.
We focus on supporting you and ensuring you develop the skills needed to succeed in the industry. Keep reading to learn more about how we do this.
Creative Futures
Creative Futures
Career Surgeries
The Creative Futures team run daily one-to-one career surgeries to advise students on their career planning, CVs, and job search.
Workshops
The Creative Futures team runs group Career Development workshops throughout the year to advise students on their career paths and what options are available to them in the creative industries.
Festival Support
Creative Futures aims to help and advise all students to navigate the festival circuit and commercial platforms, ensuring cost-effective and strategic decisions are made to maximise the opportunities for their films and online content.
Masterclasses
Students are invited to Masterclasses with special guests across all disciplines, who discuss their work, current issues, and changes within the screen industries.
Previous guests include Armando Iannucci, Roger Deakins, Sally Wainwright, Charlie Brooker, Amma Asante, Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar Jones, and Tim Roth.
- Explore our Masterclasses
Competitions
Creative Futures runs film competitions that give students the opportunity to produce content for clients with awarded budgets.
Talent Pool and Jobs Board
Creative Futures connects students and graduates with upcoming opportunities including full-time jobs, freelance contracts, internships, and placements.
The jobs board includes jobs exclusively for MetFilm School students, as well as a curated selection from the industry.
If you have a job, work experience, or internship opportunity for our students and graduates, please email sarahw@metfilm.co.uk.
Screenings and Mixers
Creative Futures runs a weekly screening programme on Thursday evenings in London and Berlin, giving students an opportunity to get together to watch a curated selection of films together.
We also run regular networking events to help students connect and collaborate on projects across cohorts. At MetFilm School London, we run weekly mixers on a Tuesday evening in the Grindhouse where students, tutors, and staff can unwind at the end of the day.
- Explore Screenings and Mixers
What employers say about MetFilm School students…
Just to say a big thankyou for sending us two students for work experience. They both got really stuck in and asked plenty of questions. We hope to hire them over the summer on some of our broadcast and corporate shoots.
Beagle Media
MetFilm tends to be our first port of call when looking for junior/mid-experienced crew.
London Film Productions
We ended up with three MetFilm School students in our studio over the past six months, and the experience has been really good – thankyou!
DixonBaxi
If you have a job, work experience, or internship opportunity for our students and graduates, please email Fiona Adams.
Work Experience Opportunities
Work Experience Opportunities
MetFilm Production
MetFilm Production, our sister company, offer 3-4 in-house work experience placements per year for MetFilm School graduates.
Selected graduates work in a variety of capacities across MetFilm Production, MetFilm Sales, and MetFilm Distribution. In the past, this has included work on award-winning productions such as The Reason I Jump and Misha and the Wolves.
- Learn more about MetFilm Production
MetFilm School Kitroom
The Kitroom provides all the kit, as well as technical assistance to our hundreds of student productions. They work closely with our supplier, Procam Take 2, to ensure the students have what they need to do their best work.
At MetFilm School London, we offer regular 3-month internships, a fantastic opportunity for all future Cinematographers or Directors of Photography to get real world, paid work experience on their CVs.