Ffilm Cymru Wales

presents:

FfS-Dyfi
The FfilmSchool-Dyfi
Filmmaking for a Flourishing Future.

apply by end of 30.11.25

be PAID to learn documentary filmmaking

£550 per week + £17.19 per hour. No experience necessary

who is the course for?

for people left out of film

we prioritise applications from people underrepresented in film

the brief this coming Land

learning through making

a co-created film, aiming at empowering communities to shape the future of this Land

the course make it better

making, centring future generations

we educate in the (re)use of archive and equipment; of cheap or free, open-access, open-source, non-proprietorial platforms; in low-data low-energy filmmaking techniques; in degrowth aesthetics; in accountable anti-extractivist ethics; in carrier-bag storytelling

practicals where, when, how

Bwlch Corog, Dyfi watershed. SY20 8UA Cymru

10–18 January Winter-light residential at Bwlch Corog
+ film-editing between
24 Apr – 2 May Spring-light residential
May Day Live-Cinema Community Review Screening
+ film-editing after
6 June Community Review Premiere

accommodation, ethical (and delicious) food and drink free of charge

FfilmSchool is also a research practice

It grows from James R Price’s PhD, which explores what’s at stake – and what practices might emerge – when anti-extractivism is placed at the centre of documentary filmmaking education.

Please read this important information to understand what being part of FfilmSchool involves. >>