NFTS Screenwriting 2024

[NoahLoulou]

Whew. Just about made the deadline. Champagne!

Anybody else applied? Feeling confident?

 

[Chris W]

Good luck! Please everyone log your applications when you can so we can improve the accuracy of the data on the page below:

NFTS - Screenwriting Acceptance Rate (All Programs/All Years)

29.4%

Admitted

5 out of 17

70.6%

Not Admitted

12 out of 17

Click here for our full Admission Statistics for this program including interview and acceptance notification dates, accepted GPAs, waitlist acceptance rate, demographics of accepted applicants, $ amount of scholarship awarded, and more...

 

[Chris W]

And here's our interview with their admissions department if you haven't seen it yet.

How to Get Into NFTS, the #1 International Film School: Exclusive Advice From the Admissions Department (Part 1)

There is no other film school in the United Kingdom more notable than the National Film and Television School (NFTS), an institution renowned for producing high-profile industry players and Oscar winners since 1971. Based in Beaconsfield, a short 25 minute train journey from central London...

• Alexa P.
• Mar 11, 2022
• Category: Admissions Interviews

 

[london writer]

Whew. Just about made the deadline. Champagne!

Anybody else applied? Feeling confident?

Hey! I applied this year. I haven't heard anything yet, I'm feeling super nervous about it. Have you applied before or is this your first time?

 

[NoahLoulou]

Hey! I applied this year. I haven't heard anything yet, I'm feeling super nervous about it. Have you applied before or is this your first time?

It's been sent to the selection panel. We just gotta wait now

It's my first time applying. Feeling confident about my odds to be invited for an interview but who knows. You?

 

[london writer]

It's been sent to the selection panel. We just gotta wait now

It's my first time applying. Feeling confident about my odds to be invited for an interview but who knows. You?

Same, mine was sent to the selection panel a few weeks ago!

It's my third time applying, never been interviewed, but I have become a much stronger writer in the past two years (I applied in 2020 and 2021) so I'm hoping I'll make the interview this time. Looking back on my past submissions I can see why I wasn't interviewed lol.

 

[NoahLoulou]

Same, mine was sent to the selection panel a few weeks ago!

It's my third time applying, never been interviewed, but I have become a much stronger writer in the past two years (I applied in 2020 and 2021) so I'm hoping I'll make the interview this time. Looking back on my past submissions I can see why I wasn't interviewed lol.

So much of it is out of our control.. Yes they're judging our control of the craft, and they're looking at how bad we want it, etc. But also they want to select 10 students who have 10 different voices and backgrounds. Backgrounds not just in terms of where and how we grew up, but also in regard to what type of stories we want to write. They're not going to select 10 writers who all write genre films. Even if those 10 writers are all brilliant.

So there is a part of luck in the selection process. But there are positives to that as well: you're not competing against the 600 people who applied. You're competing against the applicants who have a similar voice to you and want the same type of writing career.

 

[Chris W]

If you haven't yet, please log your application with our database so we can help out other applicants to the program.

Application Database

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[london writer]

So much of it is out of our control.. Yes they're judging our control of the craft, and they're looking at how bad we want it, etc. But also they want to select 10 students who have 10 different voices and backgrounds. Backgrounds not just in terms of where and how we grew up, but also in regard to what type of stories we want to write. They're not going to select 10 writers who all write genre films. Even if those 10 writers are all brilliant.

So there is a part of luck in the selection process. But there are positives to that as well: you're not competing against the 600 people who applied. You're competing against the applicants who have a similar voice to you and want the same type of writing career.

This is very true! I just want to know if I've got an interview or not already - waiting is so nervewracking! Hopefully we'll hear at the end of the month!

 

[Lampwick18]

Heya - I've also applied. I've got into LFS and MetFilm with the same script (albeit cut down as they had a lower page count) so I'm hoping to at least get to the interview stage. Best of luck to you guys!

 

[Lampwick18]

Has anyone on this thread applied to the NFTS before?

 

[london writer]

Has anyone on this thread applied to the NFTS before?

Yeah I applied in 2020 and 2021 but haven't reached the interview stage before.

 

[Lampwick18]

Good luck this time! Its definitely a very daunting application process

 

[kanan]

Has anyone heard back yet? I'm still 'at selection panel'

 

[Lampwick18]

Not yet - I'm guessing sometime this week we'll hear something.

 

[kanan]

Has anyone heard back yet? I'm still 'at selection panel'

Not yet - I'm guessing sometime this week we'll hear something.

Do you know if they tell you if you've been rejected?

 

[Lampwick18]

I believe they do - I think they tell you in an email about the state of your application. Not 100 percent sure though

 

[london writer]

Has anyone heard back yet? I'm still 'at selection panel'

Do you know if they tell you if you've been rejected?

They do tell you if you've been rejected. Last time I applied I got an email on the 13th of July stating that I had not been chosen to be offered a place on the course.

I haven't heard yet either, but I suspect that we will all hear very soon!

 

[Emily Laura NFTS]

Thanks for your patience so far in awaiting application outcomes. The SIFT process can take a number of weeks (due to the volume of applications), and the Registry team will email you any updates.

All the best
Emily
NFTS

 

[blue.electric.blue]

Hey everyone. I applied and got invited for an interview yesterday, which will take place in mid-July. Anyone else in the same boat? I wonder what to expect!