These are a few different agencies and organizations that offer support to filmmakers and offer ways of training them to develop their projects.....
Lighthouse is a company which offers a variety of training courses and mentoring opportunities for filmmakers and artists. They have many workshops including a script development workshops and introductory courses for screenwriters. They also run schemes for upcoming filmmakers such as post graduate diplomas in digital media arts.
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/
The Raindance Film Festival offers a number of courses for a wide range of areas in filmmaking. It has writing, camera, editing, software and directional courses. The writing courses which are taught by professionals, teach techniques such as various methods used in the industry today. The director courses include director’s foundation certificates, short film projects and different training along the way.
http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/
Skillset offers many interesting ways in which trainees can make their films. They run competitions in association with The Independent and Sky Movies, which enable filmmakers to create their films and learn at the same time.
http://www.skillset.org/
Script Factory, which has been established since 1996, has become one of Europe’s leading filmmaking organisations which finds and develops new screenwriting talent. It supports the people who work with screenwriters and screenplay material and stages live filmmaking events with some of cinema’s top creative talents.
http://www.scriptfactory.co.uk/
