• Journal

Notes from the studio floor.

Essays, programme dispatches and craft notes from Nextframes Academy & Production tutors, alumni and partners.

Behind the Lens: Inside our Summer Film Camp

Two weeks. Thirty young filmmakers. One short film festival. Here's how our 2025 Summer Film Camp came together in London.

As the internet leans harder into short-form video, we make the case for the still image as the foundational language of visual storytelling.

After two years of school partnerships across London and Kent, here's what we've learned about running creative programmes inside the curriculum.

Watch a 15-year-old cut a short and you'll see rhythm choices no film school would teach. Our editing academy leans into that instinct.

From BFI Future Film to signed music-video directors, our alumni are moving fast. A short check-in with five of them.

A short manifesto on why creative-arts access is a first-order investment in young people — not a nice-to-have when budgets allow.