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Study Details: MA 1 year full time
The MA International Film Business unites the London Film School, the world’s key postgraduate filmmaking school, with the University of Exeter. The marriage brings together unique film production and market expertise and exceptional research and teaching on film culture and history. This MA combines high-level teaching skills with a unique practitioner-driven industry access programme, providing students with the key business tools and contacts needed to build a career in film.
Unlike existing film-related degrees, this MA Degree explores the entire film business, embracing the world and national cinema(s), non-Hollywood independent film production, financing, sales, distribution and marketing, alongside programming, exhibition and digital strategies for the future.
The ambitious team behind the MAIFB is dedicated to training a new generation of both producers and executives that will bring both excellence and innovation into the film industry beyond Hollywood. By analyzing the horizontal and vertical structures that shape the film industry, in tandem with changing patterns of users and digital technology, this course explores both the existing international film industry while also embracing the current high levels of disruption and restructuring.
Taught in London and the South-West and a research trip to a major Film Festival.
We will consider applicants with a 2:2 Honours degree with 53% or above in a subject that includes any coverage of any of these courses: Film Studies, Drama, Business studies, Media and Communication or other creative or business disciplines.
Applications should include a personal statement clearly indicating the applicant’s motivation for studying this programme, and long-term career goals within the international film business market.
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One of the key benefits of the MA in International Film Business is the opportunity it gives you to create a network of contacts. You will be working alongside fellow students and established industry professionals with opportunities to meet big players in a variety of industry fields. The film industry more than any other is about contacts, as a graduate of our programme you will have built a good network of your own.
180 credits of compulsory modules.
You must take either EAFM203 Dissertation or EAFM204 Dissertation Project.
Compulsory modules
Code Module Credits
EAFM203 Dissertation [See note a above] 60
EAFM204 Dissertation Project [See note a above] 60
EAFM200 Distribution and Markets Taught in term 1 at UoE 30
EAFM201 The Entertainment Value Chain Taught in term 2 at LFS 30
EAFM202 Models of Innovation Taught in term 2 at LFS 30
EAFM205 The International Film Business: Approaches, Concepts and Strategies Taught in term 1 at UoE
London Film School (LFS) is the oldest film school in the UK. For more than 65 years, LFS has been the place for emerging creative talent to hone thei...
