UK • Fri 28 February & Sat 1 March 2025

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Pinewood, UK 
March 2025

Our Futures Festival 2025 is set to be Europe’s biggest free careers event for those looking to start a career in the Film & TV industry. In February at Pinewood Studios, meet employers and industry professionals, take part in workshops and attend panels. At the home of super spies, superheroes and galaxies far far away, we aim to inspire, engage and encourage you to consider careers in the screen industry.

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Tickets

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One session per customer

Each 2 hour 30min slot is identical

School Bookings

Maximum of 30 tickets per school

Speaker events

Speaker events are ticketed separately and will be released nearer the time. Those who have successfully registered for day tickets will be emailed. We cannot guarantee what speaker/s will be available for your booking session.

churchdown school academy

I’ve been teaching 30 years and I do not remember ever being on such a well-organised, relevant and superb careers’ opportunities’ trip

from futures festival 2024

John Hampden Grammar School

An outstanding opportunity for students to find out more about careers and pathways in the film industry. Thank you Pinewood Studios for organising such an inspirational event.

from futures festival 2024

Ali Plumb

I absolutely love being involved with Pinewood’s Futures Festival: getting to share my love of cinema and TV with those of us looking to join the UK’s incredible creative industries.

BBC Radio 1 film critic and journalist

Meet our 2025 futures festival speakers
 and exhibitors

2025 speakers

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Our Exhibitors

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects company and computer animation studio that was founded in 1975 by George Lucas. It is a division of the film production company Lucasfilm, which Lucas founded, and was created when he began production on the original Star Wars.

Founded in 1912, Paramount Pictures works with the entertainment industry’s biggest filmmakers and brightest stars to produce and distribute entertainment around the world. The iconic Paramount logo has opened some of the most successful and beloved films in cinematic history.

For 100 years, The Walt Disney Studios has been the foundation on which The Walt Disney Company was built. Today it brings quality movies, episodic storytelling, and stage plays to consumers throughout the world. The Walt Disney Studios encompasses a collection of respected film studios, including Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Lucasfilm, Marvel Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and 20th Century Studios.

Sony’s Digital Media Production Centre Europe (DMPCE) is one of the world’s leading destinations for makers of film, television and commercials and provide elite one-to-one or production crew training, in-person or online.

Formed in 2012 by legendary actor and director Andy Serkis, Imaginarium Studios’ pioneering performance-led capture and virtual production services help bring to life characters of all kinds.

ScreenSkills is the industry-led skills body for the UK’s screen-based creative industries – animation, film, games, television including children’s TV and high-end drama, VFX and immersive technology. They work across the whole of the country to ensure that UK screen has access now, and in the future, to the skills and talent needed for continued success.

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

Clear Angle Studios LTD is a film and television digital visual effects company which specialises in cyber scanning and photogrammetry capture.

Diving Services UK specialise in diving coordination for media projects to facilitate filming in and around water.

Makinarium provides 3D services, CNC, 3D scanning, props, costume props, 3D printing and fabrication, concept design, art direction and set dressing across film productions, promotional events and theme parks.

Actors Studio leads the way in crafting comprehensive courses and workshops tailored to elevate the art of screen acting and career management for actors worldwide, both emerging and established.

Educating the best creative talent to the highest professional standard for tomorrow’s screen industries.The NFTS is the only film school in the UK which boasts its own film and television studios, and post-production facilities rivalling those of professional companies. Its talented community of students makes around a hundred films a year on courses that are still over 90% practical.

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Futures Festival FAQs

Please reach us at futures.festival@pinewoodgroup.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.