National Film and Television School

The National Film and Television School (NFTS) is a film, television and games school established in 1971 and based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. It is featured in the 2024 ranking by The Hollywood Reporter of the top 15 international film schools. As of 2021 it had over 500 students and about fifteen hundred a year on its short courses delivered in Beaconsfield and at its hubs in Glasgow, Leeds, and Cardiff. Beaconsfield Studios consists of film and television stages, animation, and production design studios, edit suites, sound post-production facilities, a music recording studio, and four dubbing theaters. The school completed an expansion in early 2017, adding a third cinema and a Television Studio.

Sponsor type

Higher education institution

Licence

Student sponsor with a track record

Founded

1971