London Film School
Founded in 1956, LFS is one of the world's longest established filmmaking schools. It is constituted as an independent arts education charity and as a cosmopolitan conservatoire. The school produces 180 films a year via its Masters programme. LFS currently offers an MA degree in International Film Business, Screenwriting, Filmmaking and a PhD programme validated by the University of Exeter and Warwick, as well as around 50 Continuous Professional Development courses each year as LFS Workshops. LFS alumni are established in film and television production in more than eighty countries, including world-renowned filmmakers such as Mike Leigh, Michael Mann, Tak Fujimoto, Roger Pratt, Ueli Steiger, Iain Smith, Duncan Jones, Horace Ove, Ho Yim, Danny Huston, Franc Roddam, Brad Anderson, Ann Hui, Marius Holst, Oliver Hermanus and Bill Douglas, as well as the film historian David Thomson and the late playwright Arnold Wesker. The school is one of three Creative Skillset Film Academies, approved by the UK film industry as a Centre of Excellence.