BFI Screenwriting Academy 2021

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THE BFI SCREENWRITING RESIDENTIAL ACADEMY APPLICATION FORM 2021

The course will be delivered by CTVC - an award winning media production company. For more information about the course please email bfifilmacademy@ctvc.co.uk. This course will support you to write your own script and to work with others as part of a writers room. Your tutors are professional writers and producers and the course includes a series of masterclasses with award winning scriptwriters. The course ends with a read-through of your script in a theatre/cinema space in London where you can invite friends and family. This course will be delivered in-person and online.
Section 1: Applicant Information
Name

First Name Last Name
Date of Birth

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Date
Address

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Email (we will use this email as a primary form of communication)
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Course Dates:

Introductory residential weekend: 23rd-25th July 2021.

Online sessions: 27th July, 29th July, 3rd August, 5th August, 10th August, 12th August, 17th August, 19th August

Final residential weekend :27th-29th August 2021

Venue for residential weekends: Debden House Conference & Camping Centre, Debden Green, Loughton, Essex IG10 2NZ.

Fees: £50. Please note we operate a bursary scheme for fees and travel. Please email bfifilmacademy@ctvc.co.uk for more information. This fee includes the cost of staying at the residential and food and drink.
Can you attend all the dates listed above?

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If no, please state which dates you are able to make?
How did you learn about the BFI Film Academy? This will help us tell people about the programme more effectively next year

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Section 2: Supporting Statement
Please note it is likely there will be more applications than places and applicants will be selected based on their responses and material submitted through this application form.

Please use this section to tell us why you’re the right person to be accepted on this course.

We strongly encourage you to save your supporting statements in a word processor and cut and paste them into the application form to avoid any loss of work, should you lose your internet connection
Why do you want to take part the BFI Screenwriting Academy?
Please tell us about yourself and what difference you hope the Film Academy will make to you.
Please tell us about your experience in scriptwriting. You can submit some work such as a film, a piece of writing, a link to a website or an animation e.t.c. to support your answer. You can also send larger files to bfifilmacademy@ctvc.co.uk. Please use this space to tell us your answer.
Please use this place to tell us why you have a passion for scriptwriting.
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Section 3: Terms and Conditions
The BFI Film Academy will be provided by BFI Academy Partner named in this application. Your submission of this form to us will constitute your confirmation of the following declaration:
- I hereby confirm that the information I have given in this application is true and correct
- I confirm my availability for the BFI Film Academy as per the dates given above
- I agree that the BFI Academy Partner and/or the BFI may, for administrative purposes only, make copies of any material submitted in support of my application.
- By submitting this form, I understand that BFI Future Film and the BFI will store and process my data as described below in accordance with professional standards and data protection legislation.
- If under 18 I confirm that my parent or guardian has given me permission to apply to the BFI Film Academy
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Data Protection
In order for you to be able to participate in the BFI Academy Partner needs to be able to process your personal data as part of the applications, registration, learning support, and awards processes.
- Part or all of the information you give BFI Academy Partner will be provided to the BFI.
- The BFI will retain this information following your participation in the Film Academy for statistical purposes only, unless otherwise agreed.
- The BFI may share your name and contact details with a company who helps evaluate the BFI Film Academy. They may contact you to invite you to participate in a survey evaluating the course.
- The BFI and BFI Academy Partner would like to stay in touch and email you with news and information on events, courses and training opportunities which the BFI and BFI Academy Partner thinks you may be interested in (for example, nearby events or courses in your area of interest).
If you would like to receive these updates please tick YES here.

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Section 4: Diversity and Inclusion monitoring form
The British Film Institute wish to ensure that all aspects of our work reflect diversity and support equality of opportunity. Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity to ask you to complete an equality monitoring form.

This monitoring information helps us to identify where there are gaps in our recruitment so that we can work to attract talented people from these groups and areas. It also helps us to ensure that there is no discrimination.

Your cooperation in completing this form is greatly appreciated.

Any information you provide us with will be processed separately to your application to the BFI Film Academy and used for equalities monitoring purposes only. We use this information to produce anonymised statistical data on equalities, which we may publish and share with the government departments providing our funding.

Please note you will need to return this form as part of your application, providing any of the information requested is optional.
Gender
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Ethnicity
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Disability: The Equal Act 2010

The Equality Act 2010 defines disability as a 'physical or mental impairment which has a substantial long term effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day to day activities'
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THE BFI SCREENWRITING RESIDENTIAL ACADEMY APPLICATION FORM 2021

Section 1: Applicant Information

Section 2: Supporting Statement

Section 3: Terms and Conditions

Data Protection

Section 4: Diversity and Inclusion monitoring form

Gender

Ethnicity

Disability: The Equal Act 2010

Socioeconomic Background