Learn your craft at Lon­don Film School

Want to devel­op your skills as an edi­tor, cin­e­matog­ra­ph­er or screen­writer? Lon­don Film School​’s two-year MA Film­mak­ing course trains stu­dents to a pro­fes­sion­al lev­el in a full range of film­mak­ing dis­ci­plines. It’s the per­fect place to learn your craft and start on your way to a career in film and television.

But don’t take our word for it. Here, recent LFS grad­u­ate ris­ing star Koby Adom reflects on the invalu­able expe­ri­ence he gained dur­ing his time at film school.

“Going to the Lon­don Film School was the turn­ing point in my life. It was the moment I start­ed dis­cov­er­ing pur­pose to my gifts and using them to tell mean­ing­ful sto­ries and shar­ing expe­ri­ences about my under-rep­re­sent­ed back­ground. It was the place where I was able to start learn­ing a craft which I dreamed of since fol­low­ing Mar­tin Scorsese.

“Dur­ing my time at the Lon­don Film School, I made numer­ous films over the course of two years and gained a lot of knowl­edge, con­fi­dence and endurance which I then took into my work in the film and TV indus­tries. The MA Film­mak­ing course was a com­plete toolk­it for not only mak­ing films to a high stan­dard but also to find­ing my voice as a filmmaker.

“The flex­i­bil­i­ty of the course allowed me to expe­ri­ence every depart­ment of the film­mak­ing process, even build­ing and de-rig­ging sets! It gave me a sol­id con­fi­dence which I proved to myself dur­ing the writ­ing and direct­ing of my grad­u­a­tion film House Girl, shot in my moth­er­land Ghana.

“Since grad­u­at­ing from the Lon­don Film School in 2017, I’ve writ­ten and direct­ed a short film called Hair­cut with Film Lon­don, Joi Pro­duc­tions and Ste­fan Allesh-Tay­lor. It was select­ed as the best film on the Film Lon­don slate by David Yates and pre­miered at the 2018 Lon­don Film Fes­ti­val. As well as fur­ther film fes­ti­val selec­tions, Hair­cut was long list­ed for BAF­TA nom­i­na­tion, accu­mu­lat­ed over 400,000 views online & got me nom­i­nat­ed for Screen Daily’s annu­al Stars of Tomor­row list for 2018.

“Towards the end of the year, I shad­owed Brady Hood for his block of Netflix’s Top Boy, then I start­ed work with Mam­moth Screen, BBC, Par­tic­i­pant Media and Roc Nation direct­ing three episodes of Noughts and Cross­es, a six-part BBC dra­ma. I’m cur­rent­ly in devel­op­ment with Film4 to extend Hair­cut into a fea­ture film.

“While work­ing on all the above projects, the Lon­don Film School have con­sis­tent­ly sup­port­ed my progress, offer­ing me the facil­i­ty for audi­tions, rehearsals, meet­ings and much more while mak­ing Hair­cut. The School’s mar­ket­ing depart­ment have also sup­port­ed me when pro­mot­ing my projects.

“I cher­ish the knowl­edge and con­fi­dence that LFS pro­vid­ed me espe­cial­ly when I have been on set. I’ve had to think on my feet count­less times to keep the ever sink­ing ship of pro­duc­tion afloat while also remain­ing cre­ative, secure with­in myself and col­lab­o­ra­tive. A big part of that is because of my time at film school.”

Dis­cov­er more at lfs​.org​.uk