Screenwriting

Scholarships Available

2 Years Full-time

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Application deadline 9 May 2024

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Screenwriting

COURSE OVERVIEW

Could you write an award-winning film, TV drama or animation? Or devise a multi-layered narrative for a ground-breaking game?

This rigorous, practical course has a long history of producing outstanding writers for film, television, animation and games, and will give you the chance to see your writing tested in production.

In partnership with BBC Drama

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 "Studying at the NFTS was completely invaluable to starting my career. Not only did I meet wonderful tutors who helped nurture my voice as a screenwriter, it also gave me direct access to the industry which helped get my writing read by agents and led to me being signed."

Laurie Nunn
NFTS graduate - creator of Sex Education

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The voice of the individual screenwriter is at the heart of our course. You’ll be taught by working screenwriters, producers and script developers, and your voice will be nurtured, developed and challenged to produce work of quality and originality, ready to take out to the industry.

All aspects of professional screenwriting are addressed, with the added benefit that you will also collaborate with other departments – including fiction, animation, producing and games - putting into practice the skills you learn throughout the course.

Funding Available

The NFTS awards more scholarships and bursaries to British students, relative to the size of our student body, than almost any other educational institution in the UK. If you’re successful at gaining a place on the course, you will be contacted by our funding team with details on how to apply for one of these scholarships.

Upcoming Events

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Student Showcase

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Spring Roll Dream (trailer)

2022 graduate animation

Director/Lead Animator - Mai Vu

Producer - Thijme Grol

Screenwriter - Chloe White

Linh is a Vietnamese single mother who has successfully forged a life for herself and her son in America. But when her father visits from Vietnam and insists on cooking the family a traditional Vietnamese meal, Linh is confronted with the past and culture she left behind and the question of where it belongs in her family’s new life.

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Terminus (or How Dr. Clark Almost Saved The World) (trailer)

2022 graduate fiction film 

Director - Sarah Knar

Producer - Alfred Deragne

Screenwriter - Hipatia Argüero Mendoza

It has been raining for weeks on end. A young woman commits herself to a psychiatric clinic, claiming that she is the cause of the rain, and that she has the power to end the world.

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Harp Song (trailer)

2022 graduate game

Designers/Developers/Story - Stephen Glenister, Ástráður "Ace" Ísak Lárusson

Writer - Paul Carey

Harp Song is a narrative-adventure game set in ancient Ireland. Inspired by Irish mythology, our heroine, Clár, is pulled into an on-going war between the old Gods.

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Other Half (trailer)

2021 graduate animation

Director - Lina Kalcheva

Producer - Michelle Brøndum

Screenwriter - Laura Jayne Tunbridge

As an Individual Being in a world comprised of Merged Couples, Ren embarks on a hero’s quest to find his other half and become complete.

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City of Lost Children (trailer)

2020 graduate fiction film

Director - Misha Vertkin

Producer - Jesse Romain

Screenwriter - Brid Arnstein

City of Lost Children is a near future thriller set in a refugee camp for kids in the UK. We follow Dami and Azra as they negotiate the chaos of the camp, desperately trying to find a home for Dami before Azra is deported the next day.

Graduate Success

Recent graduates have been nominated for and have won BAFTAs, Royal Television Society Awards, Academy Awards, Women in Film & Television New Talent Awards, as well as being named as Screen Stars of Tomorrow.

Graduate credits include...

The Woman In The Wall

Creator/Writer/Executive Producer Joe Murtagh

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Graduate Success

Recent graduates have been nominated for and have won BAFTAs, Royal Television Society Awards, Academy Awards, Women in Film & Television New Talent Awards, as well as being named as Screen Stars of Tomorrow.

Graduate credits include...

The Good Nurse

Writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns

The Good Nurse poster

Graduate Success

Recent graduates have been nominated for and have won BAFTAs, Royal Television Society Awards, Academy Awards, Women in Film & Television New Talent Awards, as well as being named as Screen Stars of Tomorrow.

Graduate credits include...

Graces Series 3

Writer Caroline Ip

Grace publicity still

Graduate Success

Recent graduates have been nominated for and have won BAFTAs, Royal Television Society Awards, Academy Awards, Women in Film & Television New Talent Awards, as well as being named as Screen Stars of Tomorrow.

Graduate credits include...

Redemption

Writer/Series Creator Sean Cook

Redemption publicity still

Graduate Success

Recent graduates have been nominated for and have won BAFTAs, Royal Television Society Awards, Academy Awards, Women in Film & Television New Talent Awards, as well as being named as Screen Stars of Tomorrow.

Graduate credits include...

Casualty

Writer Stephen McAteer

Casualty poster

Graduate Success

Recent graduates have been nominated for and have won BAFTAs, Royal Television Society Awards, Academy Awards, Women in Film & Television New Talent Awards, as well as being named as Screen Stars of Tomorrow.

Graduate credits include...

Noughts + Crosses

Writer Malorie Blackman

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