Skillset Film Academy News: new MA in Film Curating at the London Film School
Top academic institution the London Consortium and internationally renowned postgraduate facility the London Film School (LFS), A Skillset Film Academy, are teaming up to offer the first ever postgraduate degree in Film Curating.
The MA in Film Curating will be a year-long course running for the first time in October 2010 under the direction of veteran film journalist and academic Nick Roddick. Regular London Consortium and LFS teaching staff will also contribute. The ground-breaking degree, which will draw on the knowledge and experience of a number of industry and festival professionals, aims to provide students with a solid academic grounding as well as direct experience of curating, culminating in a series of film events to be presented by students in the summer of 2011.
The course, which will become a regular part of the London Consortium/LFS syllabus, will involve the academic study of film curating, the film industry, film distribution networks (with particular reference to the rising importance of digital and online distribution) and film festivals. Students will gain direct experience of the Cannes and Rotterdam film festivals.
The London Consortium is a unique collaboration between academic and cultural institutions in London, bringing together Birkbeck College (University of London), the Architectural Association, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Tate Modern and the Science Museum, and supporting postgraduate students pursuing projects of interdisciplinary enquiry in the arts and humanities.
The London Film School is recognised as one of the world's key graduate schools and remains film education's most cosmopolitan institution. LFS graduates are established in film and television production in more than 80 countries and include many great film-makers and successful technicians. LFS is a Skillset Screen Academy, accredited by the industry training body as a centre of excellence.
Says LFS chairman (and graduate) Mike Leigh, "I welcome the imaginative collaboration between the London Consortium and the LFS in creating this exciting new degree. For film-makers, a knowledge and appreciation of world cinema is as important as directing, cinematography or editing; and access to our cinema heritage is equally essential for popular audiences."
Nick Roddick taught literature, film and theatre at Trinity College Dublin, Manchester University and California State University Long Beach before becoming a journalist in the 1980s. He has been editor of Cinema Papers (Australia), Screen International and Moving Pictures International and now writes regularly for Sight & Sound and the London Evening Standard.
For full details of the MA in Film Curating,
please contact Matthew Taunton at the London Consortium:
or Kate Hughes at the London Film School:
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