BFI Future Film Festival

[1] Founded in 2008, it takes place over four days in February each year, and focuses equally on fiction, animation and documentary, as well as TV and video games.

[2][3] The festival provides young people[4] with masterclasses, workshops and film screenings from emerging filmmakers,[5] at BFI Southbank in London.

Since 2020, the festival has simultaneously run online events, aimed at young people across the UK.

"[7] The Guardian noted that the "festival is aimed at nurturing young film-makers, and there's plenty for them to be inspired by".

[8] 2017 and 2020 award winner Charlotte Regan has subsequently been nominated by BAFTA and won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival for her debut feature, Scrapper.