Applications open
Train with us
Camera, grip, stabilisation, lighting, sound, DIT (digital imaging technician) and post, taught to the standard of high-end television and feature film. You can start with nothing.
What you can train in
Listed the way a call sheet is listed: from the standard down. Start at the top of it or start at the bottom — nobody is put at the bottom because of where they came from.
| Strand | What it is |
|---|---|
| High-end television and feature film standards | The Studio Simulation and the Story-to-Screen Lab. A working unit on a stage, every department named. |
| Advanced technical training | Camera, grip, stabilisation and exoskeleton, lighting, sound, DIT, remote head, multi-camera studio, post. |
| Documentary and social impact filmmaking | Films made with communities rather than about them. We have taken a crew into a mosque during Ramadan and made one. |
| Video journalism and self-shooting | Interview craft, contributor care, structure, shooting alone, cutting to a deadline. |
| Short film and the writers room | For women who arrive with a story rather than a craft. The front door to the Lab. |
| Events, screenings and public dialogue | Screenings with congregations, schools and groups, and the hour afterwards. Open to everyone. |
| The podcast | A room, a microphone and two people who would not otherwise meet. |
The phone in your pocket
If all you have is a phone, that is a working camera and we teach on it. Framing, sound, structure, edit, publish: one craft, two scales. The kit you arrive with, not the ceiling you are given.
Who it is for
Women of faith — Jewish, Christian and Muslim — and those who share our values.
Over eighteen. No degree, no experience, no equipment of your own. Prayer breaks go on the call sheet at the times they fall. It costs you nothing: travel paid before you travel, food provided, kit loaned. Commissioned work pays for the places.