National Film and Television School
The National Film and Television School is an internationally renowned film school established in 1971 and based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.Its talented community of students makes around a hundred films a year on courses that are still over 90% practical and unlike anything offered at any other UK film school. It currently has around 220 full-time students, with a further two dozen part-timers on the Script Development course and about a thousand a year on its short courses. Beaconsfield Studios comprises film and television stages, animation and production design studios, edit suites, sound post-production facilities, a music recording studio and a dubbing theatre, all furnished with new generation digital equipment equivalent to that used at the highest level in today's film and television industry. It is the only film school in the UK which boasts its own film and television studios.The BBC stated that the NFTS was the "leading centre of excellence for education in film and television programme making", and noted that it was "relevant to the industry's present and future needs." British Film Magazine once described the NFTS as being one of the few schools to come "very, very close" to guaranteeing a job in the film industry, and named its leader a "maverick"; Filmmaking.net named it one of two films schools outside the US which had such a high international reputation.HistoryThe National Film School opened in 1971, the work of four years of planning to create an institution to train personnel for the British film industry. Department of Education and Science had in 1967 recommended the creation of a national film school for the UK, and in 1969 an inquiry led by Lord Lloyd of Hampstead began to develop plans.
