Film Distribution and Marketing Birmingham City University

Overview

What's covered in the course?

Taught by an industry experienced team, including Oscar-nominated producer, Lee Thomas, and film industry expert, Eugenio Triana, you'll develop the strategic skills needed to apply new and emergent models of film financing and market and engage audiences in a competitive, fast changing global entertainment business.

The Film Distribution and Marketing - MA is provided by Birmingham City University.

This Film Distribution and Marketing Master’s course at Birmingham City University, part of NTI Birmingham's Film Futures programme, examines old and new business models spanning all aspects of the film development cycle.

The course embraces advances in technology, digital communication channels and opportunities to monetise content across a variety of platforms outside traditional cinema.

During the course, you will receive intensive tuition from industry professionals before working to create and deploy strategies for projects around development and pitching, financing and pitching to investors, and distribution and marketing campaigns - all under the guidance of mentors.

As well as this, you'll get to work on real film projects ranging from low- to no-budget esoteric art house through to more commercially ambitious genres and across all stages of a film's life cycle – from development to production to distribution. 

During the course previous students have worked with companies including New Yorker Films, The Weinstein Company, New Wave Films, Kaleidoscope Films and the Taiwan Film Institute.

Why Choose Us?

• The course has been developed with film distribution companies, digital communication experts and film producers to ensure it provides the skills and knowledge needed for distributing and marketing films in the UK and overseas.
• There are great opportunities for internships, visiting film festivals and networking with producers and distributors. As part of your MA, you'll be provided with a work placement opportunity with a film distribution company at Cannes Film Festival, the world's leading movie market and festival. The cost of the trip is included in your course fee.
• During the Cannes Film Festival previous students have worked for companies including GFM, Sony Pictures Classics, SC Films and Movie House Entertainment.

• Lecturers and tutors are professionals currently working in the industry. You will receive extensive support in developing employability skills, including CVs and online profiles.

Enhancing your employability skills

This course is specifically designed to prepare market-ready, entrepreneurial graduates able to meet the challenges of the new film distribution and funding environment, with the intention that students will play a key role in production teams of the future in emerging roles.

The course's strong emphasis on commercial awareness, market awareness and technological innovation in the sector also provides students with the opportunity to pursue careers in a wide variety of positions and company types.