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Study Details: MA 1 year full time
The MA International Film Business unites the London Film School, the world’s key postgraduate filmmaking school, with the University of Exeter. The marriage brings together unique film production and market expertise and exceptional research and teaching on film culture and history. This MA combines high-level teaching skills with a unique practitioner-driven industry access programme, providing students with the key business tools and contacts needed to build a career in film.
Unlike existing film-related degrees, this MA Degree explores the entire film business, embracing the world and national cinema(s), non-Hollywood independent film production, financing, sales, distribution and marketing, alongside programming, exhibition and digital strategies for the future.
The ambitious team behind the MAIFB is dedicated to training a new generation of both producers and executives that will bring both excellence and innovation into the film industry beyond Hollywood. By analyzing the horizontal and vertical structures that shape the film industry, in tandem with changing patterns of users and digital technology, this course explores both the existing international film industry while also embracing the current high levels of disruption and restructuring.
Taught in London and the South-West and a research trip to a major Film Festival.
We will consider applicants with a 2:2 Honours degree with 53% or above in a subject that includes any coverage of any of these courses: Film Studies, Drama, Business studies, Media and Communication or other creative or business disciplines.
Applications should include a personal statement clearly indicating the applicant’s motivation for studying this programme, and long-term career goals within the international film business market.
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One of our more recent success stories, which took place in Cannes in May 2025, was the selection by Screen Daily (the global daily news feed for the film trade) of Johnny Rhodes as one of its ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’.
Since graduating in 2021, he has been appointed Sales Manager for the leading international film sales agency Cornerstone Films – which represents films from leading filmmakers such as Mikle Leigh, Andrea Arnold and Gurinder Chadha. Johnny is one of 300 alumni from the programme, working in the film and creative industries all across the world.
Dissertation
Dissertation Project
Distribution and Markets Taught in term 1 at UoE
The Entertainment Value Chain Taught in term 2 at LFS
Models of Innovation Taught in term 2 at LFS
The International Film Business: Approaches, Concepts and Strategies Taught in term 1 at UoE
London Film School (LFS) is the oldest film school in the UK. For 70 years since 1956, LFS has been the place for emerging creative talent to hon...
