Short Courses
These industry-renowned courses are aimed at professionals in film and television as a means of furthering their careers.
From a two-day course in self-shooting, to one day catching up with Movie Magic software in budgeting or scheduling, our courses have gained a huge reputation within the industry. Practitioners can choose to spend a week discovering how to shoot a documentary, three days learning how to edit on Avid, or less than a week understanding how to cut film to music. These course are across all NFTS UK Locations, as well as some offered exclusively online.
To see what short courses are coming up across our UK locations over the next month, you can download this leaflet (pdf).
For Hair and Make-Up courses, click here

Course | Location | Dates | |
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Visually Expressive Directing | Beaconsfield | 19 Sep 2022 to 20 Sep 2022 | |
Directing Actors | London | 19 Sep 2022 to 20 Sep 2022 | |
Documentary Shooting | Beaconsfield | 19 Sep 2022 to 24 Sep 2022 | |
NFTS Scotland: Factual Editing In Person | Glasgow | 19 Sep 2022 to 23 Sep 2022 | |
Production Co-ordinators | Online | 21 Sep 2022 to 23 Sep 2022 | |
NFTS Scotland: Script Reading and Reporting Online | Glasgow | 23 Sep 2022 to 30 Sep 2022 | |
NFTS Cymru Wales: Script Reading and Reporting: Online | Cardiff | 23 Sep 2022 to 30 Sep 2022 | |
Live Football Commentating | Online | 26 Sep 2022 to 27 Sep 2022 | |
16mm/35mm Camera Familiarisation | Beaconsfield | 26 Sep 2022 to 30 Sep 2022 | |
Developing & Pitching Factual Programmes & Documentaries | Beaconsfield | 26 Sep 2022 to 27 Sep 2022 | |
NFTS Leeds: Introduction to Editing on Adobe Premiere Pro: In Person | Leeds | 26 Sep 2022 to 28 Sep 2022 | |
Introduction to Editing on Adobe Premiere Pro | Beaconsfield | 28 Sep 2022 to 30 Sep 2022 | |
NFTS Cymru Wales: Writing for Tv Continuing Drama Series | Cardiff | 29 Sep 2022 to 30 Sep 2022 | |
NFTS Leeds: A Practical Guide to Writing Comedy Drama | Leeds | 29 Sep 2022 to 30 Sep 2022 | |
Developing & Pitching Drama | Beaconsfield | 29 Sep 2022 to 30 Sep 2022 | |
Composing for Film, TV & Games | Beaconsfield | 3 Oct 2022 to 5 Oct 2022 | |
Introduction to Editing on Avid Media Composer | Beaconsfield | 5 Oct 2022 to 7 Oct 2022 | |
Rosemary and Time: An ecological 16mm film workshop using Bolex cameras | Beaconsfield | 7 Oct 2022 to 8 Oct 2022 | |
Craft Editing | Beaconsfield | 10 Oct 2022 to 14 Oct 2022 | |
Script Editing Today | London | 10 Oct 2022 to 21 Oct 2022 | |
Introduction to TV Development | Beaconsfield | 10 Oct 2022 to 11 Oct 2022 | |
NFTS Leeds: Introduction to Location Sound Recording | Leeds | 10 Oct 2022 to 12 Oct 2022 | |
An Introduction to Short Filmmaking | Beaconsfield | 13 Oct 2022 to 14 Oct 2022 | |
Acting For The Screen | Beaconsfield | 17 Oct 2022 to 28 Oct 2022 | |
NFTS Cymru Wales: Casting for Factual Television | Cardiff | 17 Oct 2022 to 18 Oct 2022 | |
Live Sports Production with Live TV Simulator | Beaconsfield | 17 Oct 2022 to 21 Oct 2022 | |
Location Sound Recording | Beaconsfield | 24 Oct 2022 to 28 Oct 2022 | |
NFTS Scotland: Camera Assisting In Person | Glasgow | 25 Oct 2022 to 27 Oct 2022 | |
NFTS Cymru Wales: Composing for Film, TV and Games | Cardiff | 25 Oct 2022 to 27 Oct 2022 | |
Creating The Short | Online | 26 Oct 2022 to 14 Dec 2022 | |
NFTS Leeds: Introduction to Working in the Assistant Directors' Department | Leeds | 31 Oct 2022 to 1 Nov 2022 | |
Directors' Series | Beaconsfield | 31 Oct 2022 to 25 Nov 2022 | |
The Science Of Acting | Beaconsfield | 7 Nov 2022 to 9 Nov 2022 | |
Acting On Green Screen and In Virtual & Semi-Virtual Worlds | Beaconsfield | 10 Nov 2022 to 11 Nov 2022 | |
Making The Successful Microbudget Feature Film | Beaconsfield | 14 Nov 2022 to 16 Nov 2022 | |
Directing The Comedy | Beaconsfield | 17 Nov 2022 to 18 Nov 2022 | |
Line Producing for Film | Beaconsfield | 28 Nov 2022 to 2 Dec 2022 | |
Financing Your Feature Film | London | 29 Nov 2022 to 30 Nov 2022 | |
Running Your Own FILM Production Company | London | 1 Dec 2022 to 2 Dec 2022 | |
Drama Production Management | Beaconsfield | 5 Dec 2022 to 9 Dec 2022 |