Cohort-based development programmes for multi-hyphenate creatives, emerging performers, and screen practitioners at every stage. All led by working filmmakers.
Every programme is practitioner-led, outcome-oriented, and built around the discipline of film. They are not general creative development courses. They have defined entry points, defined outputs, and defined cohort sizes — small enough that feedback is real rather than formulaic.
We run programmes in cohorts rather than rolling admissions, which means availability is limited. If you are interested in a specific programme, register your interest through the contact page and we will confirm dates and availability as soon as they are scheduled.
Eight to twelve participants maximum, so feedback is substantive rather than surface-level.
Every programme ends with something tangible — created work, a submission package, or documented skills development.
Led by filmmakers, directors, and producers who are currently working — not drawing on historical experience.
For creatives who work across more than one discipline — who write and perform, or direct and design, or produce and act — and whose multi-disciplinary practice is an asset that the industry is not yet seeing clearly. This is not a course for generalists who have not yet committed. It is for experienced practitioners whose range is real and whose positioning needs to match it.
Over six weeks, participants develop a sustained piece of work that draws on all of their disciplines in deliberate combination. Sessions alternate between focused craft work — how to structure a short film, how to direct yourself, how to write to your own strengths — and critical feedback on work in progress. The programme closes with a cohort screening and feedback session, with mentors present alongside peers.
The underlying question the Lab is built around: if you do more than one thing, how does that make your work stronger, and how do you make that case to the people who might hire you?
Designed for actors, writers, and theatre-trained practitioners who want to understand — and work within — the discipline of screen. Not as a career change, but as a creative expansion. Because the camera does not lie, and understanding what it demands changes how you work in every context.
Film as Lens moves between theory and practice. Participants learn how a shot is constructed, how a scene is covered, and what the director and cinematographer are actually solving when they make their decisions. Then they work on camera — as performers, as directors of short scenes, and in some cases as both simultaneously. The programme is designed to remove the mystification that keeps theatre-trained creatives from feeling fluent on a film set, and to demonstrate concretely how screen discipline improves stage and page work.
By the end of the four weeks, participants have been through the full production arc of a short piece — from script to shot to edited cut — and understand every stage of that process from multiple vantage points.
A concentrated, two-day programme on the mechanics of how the industry actually operates — without the mythology. Designed for creatives who have strong work and limited understanding of how to translate it into traction: how submissions are evaluated, how relationships with casting directors and agents develop, what the distinction between an agent and a manager means in practice, and how careers actually build rather than suddenly arrive.
Industry Immersion covers the submission ecosystem in detail: what a submission-ready package looks like (showreel, CV, headshots, self-tape strategy), how casting directors make their decisions, and what they need to see from an unrepresented actor or director to take an interest. It covers self-tape technique with live practice and immediate feedback. It covers agent and manager relationships — when to pursue them, how to approach them, and what they are actually looking for. And it covers career architecture: the decisions that compound positively over time versus the ones that feel urgent and are not.
Concept to finished reel. We write bespoke scenes built around your specific strengths, shoot with proper camera and lighting, direct for performance rather than simply recording, and deliver an edited reel that is ready for submission. Not a self-tape with a professional backdrop. A piece of screen work that demonstrates what you can actually do.
The Showreel Sprint is available as a standalone service or as the production component of a wider MTF engagement. It begins with a pre-production conversation — what roles you are targeting, what your current materials are missing, and what the reel needs to demonstrate. Scenes are developed specifically for the participant, not adapted from existing material. Shoot days use professional camera, lighting, and sound. Editing is handled in post with the participant, so you understand what decisions are being made and why.
See the Showreel page for full details on what is included, the production process, and how to apply.
"Development that does not produce something at the end is development that left the work in the room. Everything we run ends with material you own."
Tell us where you are and what you are working towards. We will tell you honestly which programme fits your situation — or whether one-to-one mentoring would serve you better first.
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