Student Testimonials
Remi Borgeaud - Filmmaking - graduated 2007
What I learnt about my LFS years is that film schools are not factories which produce filmmakers on an assembly line. A good Film School should be a laboratory where students look for their own language.
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Ines Braga - Screenwriting - graduated 2007 
...In Portugal there are not many practical courses, so one of the main reasons for coming to this school was because I felt that I could write... I could learn from actually doing it..LFS helped me find my voice and gave me the tools to write. I really appreciated the one-to-one mentoring and the close feedback from excellent professionals and the possibility for collaboration with filmmakers is one of the highlights of the course.
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Emelia Carrere - Filmmaking - graduated 2007
What I gained was mostly how to communicate with all the different departments, and being able to understand everybody's needs.
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Maeve O'Connell - Filmmaking - graduated 2007
It's a small community and you have an instant surrogate family. Now I've got a couch to sleep in in almost every country in the world. I shot my graduation films in Ireland and India and that investigating and learning about other cultures makes you more able to collaborate and more understanding and patient on set.
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Jason Shahinfar - Filmmaking - graduated 2007
You are able to shoot all the time. It gave me time to practise, get hands on experience, make mistakes, learn from them and move on. The biggest resource is probably all the students you meet and work with - you have a crew you can trust in the future!
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Leon Yan - Filmmaking - graduated 2007
I learnt about myself as a filmmaker, going beyond the technical aspects and discovering how I think as a filmmaker conceptually. One of the great things about the school is you don' t have to setle into one role, you can experiment. It helps you as a director and you learn how to collaborate with other people.
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Allison Jackson - Filmmaking - graduated 2007
Working with international crews, seeing how other people approach filmmaking, really gave me a whole new level of how I should look at film.
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Verity Healey - Filmmaking - graduated 2007
I am honoured to have been at the school under its present tutors and leaders. The dedication of all staff is immense.
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Guy Lodge - Screenwriting - graduated 2006
Given the prestige of the film school you expect great staff, an excellent support network of professionals and guest lecturers – and you get that, but the unexpected bonus is the range and diversity and quality of the students themselves. It is so exciting being in a place where there are so many people who are all busy and working on their films - you just plunge in and find your creative edge. I can’t imagine there is anywhere better to go to discover yourself creatively.
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Maria Paz Fabrega - Filmmaking - graduated 2006
The London Film School offers a huge creative challenge to any artist. It forces you to be self-critical, hard working and ambitious in a wide range of roles and on many different projects.
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Ari Eldjarn - Screenwriting - graduated 2006
It's taken the fear out of screenwriting for me!
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Chris Watney - Filmmaking - graduated 2006
The best thing about the school was that it gave me a platform to write a script and get it made. It was fantastic to finally make something I'd written, which had been a frustration for years. It's such a great journey and now, having graduated I've got a list of DOPS, sound recordists, editors I can work with.
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Haim Litani - Filmmaking - graduated 2006
It's overwhelmingly practical. In my mind I saw myself sitting in a classroom, but I ended up behing the camera, writing scripts, making films all the time. The international element is one of the best things about London and the London Film School in particular. if you are interested in global affairs, it's the best place to be. you learn from other people's work and other people's imput and working from people all over the place.
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Hoda Nazer - Filmmaking - graduated 2006
You only have 12 weeks to make a short film, in which the whole crew has to collaborate together. And because the school is so international, each person brings their own culture and background and you learn from that. After all, film is an international medium and you have to think about the whole world when filmmaking!
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Kemal Akhtar - Filmmaking - graduated 2006
The great thing is you plot your own way within it. You try your hand at every discipline, which makes you a better director - to know what everybody does on a set, the difficulties and the technical issues. It gives you more empathy and maks you part of a family. Leaving the school I can sit down with any filmmaker and discuss any aspect of film and not be lost in a maze of terms. I'm not afraid of anything!
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Azhur Saleem - Filmmaking - graduated 2006
Going to film school gave me the space and time I needed to find out
what stories I wanted to tell, who I was as a filmmaker and help to
hone my visual and aesthetic style.
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Babak Jalali - Filmmaking - graduated 2005
I chose LFS because I could start making films immediately, not wait a few years to actually touch a camera!
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Jack Mcnamara - Filmmaking - graduated 2005
The London Film School offers a huge creative challenge to any artist. It forces you to be self-critical, hard working and ambitious in a wide range of roles and on many different projects.
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Sagan Lee - Filmmaking - graduated 2003
I'm still in contact with my fellow students who are all over the world - we see each other at film festivals and on shoots. I cherish the time I spent at the school.
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Barney Elliot - Filmmaking - graduated 2003
I attended The London Film School from September of 2000 through the spring of 2003 and the amount of growth that I experienced as a filmmaker in this short period of time is really…unquantifiable. Not only did we learn how to watch, shoot and discuss film intelligently, but also we learned how to work from the inside – out.
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Daneeta Loretta Saft - Filmmaking - graduated 2002
There were several reasons why I chose The London Film School over other possible schools. LFS is located in Central London, the heart of the cinema district.
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Norma Nebot - Filmmaking - graduated 2002
I enrolled the course at the LFS in January 2000 and finished in December 2001. Two pretty intense years, I would say!
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Naruna Kaplan De Macedo - Filmmaking - graduated 2002
Why did I choose the LFS? After all I could have gone to the French school FEMIS or even to an American course or university.
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Pansu Kim - Filmmaking - graduated 2002
The London Film School is full of people from all over the world who have completely different culture, background, character, and know-how of filmmaking.
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Mike Johnson - Filmmaking - graduated 2001
I spent the best part of three years at LFS (1998 – 2001) and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. You don’t just attend the film school, you live it, morning, noon and night, total immersion in all aspects of film-making.
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Patrick Jackson - Filmmaking - graduated 2001
I left Sweden and the Stockholm film school for London with great expectations. In Sweden, LFS is well known for its history, resources and professionalism. The first term was a shock.
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Marie-Jeanne Urech - Filmmaking - graduated 2002
The London Film School is like real life : you get back what you bring in.
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