Film season
Welcome to Film Season at City Lit.
Whether you want to learn more about cult classics and world cinema through Our Film Studies programme or if you’ve always wanted to learn how to write, create or edit your own films, we have the course for you.
Browse our selection below for courses in film studies, screen writing, filmmaking, animation and screen acting.
New for this year, check out our Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 12 weeks (and throughout the academic year in terms 2 and 3), we will watch and discuss film.
If you are passionate about all things film then join us this term for some exciting and unique film related courses.
- Ways into screenwriting
Course start date: Mon 20 Apr 2026 (and 6 other dates)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Alan NixonLearn to write for the screen on this practical, introductory course. Writing exercises, presentations and screenings will teach you key skills, and you’ll begin to produce work and an outline for a full-length project.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £125.00 - Developing your screenwriting Course start date: Tue 21 Apr 2026 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Continue your screenwriting journey in this practical intermediate course. Writing exercises, presentations and screenings will teach you key skills, and you’ll begin to produce work and an outline for a full-length project.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £130.00 - Filmmaking: shoot and edit Course start date: Wed 22 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lily MarkiewiczLearn all the stages of film making from initial pre- production planning through to post production editing. Whatever genre interests you, this course will give you the essential skills to realise your own movie.Full fee £459.00 Senior fee £367.00 Concession £298.00 - Screen acting: beginners Course start date: Wed 22 Apr 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephen Rahman-HughesWork in a safe and supportive environment to learn skills and techniques to be able to act truthfully on camera. This is a practical course taught by an experienced screen actor and tutor.
Full fee £329.00 Senior fee £329.00 Concession £230.00 - Italian cinema: from Neorealism to the genre film Course start date: Fri 1 May 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Cristina MassaccesiThis cinema course focuses on Italian cinema in the years between 1945 and 1980. It will provide the students with an overview of the main historical, cultural and social aspects of Italian filmmaking in Italy by looking at the work of some of its most influential authors.
Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Develop your filmmaking Course start date: Mon 11 May 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lily MarkiewiczLooking for an opportunity to build on your previous film making and editing experiences? Want to develop your leaning further, make more effective films with more professional decisions at each stage of production or simply have some further guidance? Then this class is for you.Full fee £539.00 Senior fee £431.00 Concession £350.00 - How to read a film: a beginners' guide to cinema Course start date: Mon 11 May 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Chris DarkeThis course will develop your critical appreciation of the cinema by teaching you how to read and understand film texts. We will look at the elements that underpin film form – narrative, mise en scène, cinematography, editing and sound – alongside its historical development. We will consider film style by exploring classical, post-classical and art cinema and we will examine influential critical modes of analysis, such as genre, authorship and spectatorship.
Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Writing a short film Course start date: Sun 24 May 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sharmila ChauhanWould you like to write a script for a short film? This short course offers an insight into the fundamentals of screenwriting through tutor input, writing exercises, group work and discussion.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Reading images: exploring film studies Course start date: Wed 27 May 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Cristina MassaccesiThis comprehensive introductory course provides an overview of the main historical, technical and theoretical aspects of filmmaking and film analysis. In its exploration of aspects of film theory as it relates to film aesthetics and film history, the course develops certain ideas with rigour and depth.
Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Ways into advanced film studies: film theory Course start date: Tue 2 Jun 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul SuttonThis advanced level film studies course will introduce you to a range of theoretical approaches to the study of film. It will consider some of the earliest attempts to think about film, studies that borrowed methodologies from other disciplines. As early as 1915, for example, writers were applying psychology to film analysis, exploring the emotional responses of audiences to this still new medium. Early theorists argued for film as a distinct art form, and we will examine a number of their key texts. In the 1960s, film studies began to develop as a specific subject of study in universities in the US and the UK, once again deploying perspectives from other subject areas. We will examine a number of these theories and consider their continued importance for the analysis and understanding of film today.
Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Sex, Modernism and Auteurs: European Cinema in the 1960sCourse start date: Sat 13 Jun 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jon WisbeyIn the 1960s European cinema invariably suggested an art cinema characterised by formal innovation, thematic and psychological complexity, and a bold approach to sex. This course explores a decade of European cinema through a range of groundbreaking films, key directors and their approach to film style and the human condition, film movements, key concepts and critical accounts of the period.
Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Experimental filmmaking: stage 1 Course start date: Sun 14 Jun 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lily MarkiewiczLearn about the differences between experimental film and conventional narrative. Begin to create digital films that challenge rather than cater to conventional expectations. Explore how to create original material in both form and content.Full fee £359.00 Senior fee £287.00 Concession £233.00 - Screen acting: auditioning and self-taping for TV and film Course start date: Mon 15 Jun 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gary GrantExpert advice and guidance on how to prepare for auditions. This practical course covering techniques and tips on how to prepare for auditions with opportunity to practice in putting those into action.Full fee £329.00 Senior fee £329.00 Concession £230.00 - Screenwriting for feature film Course start date: Tue 14 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sharmila ChauhanHave you ever wondered what goes into writing a screenplay? How is it different from theatre, radio or prose? Learn the basics of the craft and develop a script of your own in this creative and analytical workshop.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £80.00 - Narrative filmmaking Course start date: Tue 28 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lily MarkiewiczTelling a story on film comes with its own challenges. This practical course demystifies what it takes to do this successfully.Full fee £359.00 Senior fee £287.00 Concession £233.00
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