Overview

The MA International Film Business unites London Film School, the world’s key postgraduate filmmaking school, with the University of Exeter. The marriage brings together unique film production value chain 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 who will bring both excellence and innovation into the film industry beyond Hollywood. By analysing the horizontal and vertical structures that shape the film industry, in tandem with changing patterns of users and digital technology, this course explores the existing international film industry while also embracing the current high levels of disruption and restructuring.

This is a one-year, full-time MA programme taught in person in the South-West at the University of Exeter for term one and in London at London Film School for terms two and three. The programme includes a research trip to a major European film market.

Accreditation

Validating partner: University of Exeter