The BFI Film Academy's Free Courses Offer Accommodation and Travel Bursaries
The BFI Film Academy will provide 12 free Training Courses and 60 fully paid Professional Development trainee placements with leading industry partners each year. The Training Courses are residential, delivered in different regions across the UK, and open to young people nationwide; accommodation costs are fully covered and travel bursaries are available.
The courses will take 295 young people each year, a 70% uplift in Training Course places from previous years. That is the detail that makes a nationwide course genuinely national: a place in another region is also a living-cost question, and the BFI is covering the part that can quietly decide whether someone can attend. The scale is still modest: 295 young people a year is a 70% increase in places, but it is 295 young people.
AI-generated discussion · Different perspectives
A residential course in another region is a living-cost question before it is a scheduling one. Covering accommodation and offering travel bursaries is what makes 'nationwide' more than a map reference.
The scale is still the story: 295 young people a year, even after a 70% uplift, is a small number of participants. A bigger percentage can still be a small number.