Funded places
Funded places.
Futures in Film is a community interest company. Any surplus on hire, commissioned film, testing and teaching is locked to community benefit, and it goes back into the work. Those places are limited, they are decided case by case, and nothing on this page is a promise.
Where the money comes from
Who funds this.
Trading first: equipment made available to productions, equipment tested for manufacturers, commissioned training. The equipment is MR Helix’s, made available to the CIC. Then funders who back the organisation itself.
The Rank Foundation
Grant funding direct to Futures in Film CIC
Funding received
Sums we have received, not sums you pay.
Barriers
Discussed case by case, and sometimes with a third-party funder.
A funded place is a place. Anything else that would stop you attending is a separate conversation, had before you commit to anything, and what has been possible for one person is not a promise to the next.
Filming inside a coffee shop set, crew watching
A second routeThe ScreenSkills bursary.
ScreenSkills administers bursaries for people training for and working in the UK screen industries: a cash grant toward training, travel, equipment, software and accommodation, UK-wide, 18 and over. It is competitive, applying is not receiving, it is not open to people in full-time or part-time education, it needs weeks of lead time, and the application is yours to write and theirs to decide. A bursary can pay for somebody else’s course as easily as ours.
What we askWhat we ask, and what we never ask.
What attending would cost you, why you want to work in this department, and whether anything about the days themselves would be difficult. A few sentences each. Never:
Bank statements, payslips, benefit letters or proof of income.
A reference, or anybody to vouch for you.
A showreel, a portfolio or previous credits.
Your immigration status, your health record or a diagnosis.
An explanation of your family circumstances beyond what you choose to tell us.
DecidingHow places are decided.
Places go to the people for whom the cost is the difference between coming and not coming, weighted towards the communities and the parts of the country we exist to reach. There are only ever a few of them, and asking is not the same as getting one.
Do this now
Ask. It is one question on a form.
Say on the form what would stop you taking a place. Asking does not affect your chance of getting one.
