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Barbican Young Film Programmers

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Transform your passion for film into practice by curating, marketing and delivering the Chronic Youth film festival at the Barbican.

The Barbican Young Film Programmers is a talent development programme where young people work collaboratively to turn their love for cinema into a dynamic experience. As a collective, you will curate, market, and deliver the annual Chronic Youth Film Festival. Through the programme, you’ll gain insights into the ins and outs of film curation, expand your networks of filmmakers and industry professionals, and deepen your knowledge of the film sector. This culminates in you determining the themes, film programme, and connected public events for the festival.

The Barbican Young Film Programmers is facilitated by YFP alumna and acclaimed programmer Isra Al Kassi, co-founder of T A P E Collective, with special sessions from Barbican Curators and invited guest speakers along the way.

All festival enquiries and film submissions, please contact [email protected] 

£5 Young Barbican exhibition tickets

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What you need to know

The tutors

Isra

Isra Al Kassi

Isra is a London based Swedish-Iraqi curator, writer and co-founder of T A P E collective; a cross curatorial collective on a mission to demystify the industry and to represent could-be-cult classics through special curation, production and distribution. With a background in events & marketing Isra is also an outreach and audience development consultant and has a particular interest in mindful audience growth and creating accessible spaces for mixed-heritage storytellers and audiences. Isra has curated for London Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, BFI Southbank, Reclaim the Frame and Aesthetica Short Film Festival. Isra is also an alumna of the Barbican Young Film Programmers.

During the programme, there will be sessions led by various industry professionals in the film sector who will all bring different insights and specialisms to working as a programmer.
 

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Young Film Programmers

Hear directly Young Film Programmers about their experience as a young creative.

‘Fantastic. Such care and passion was shown and I’ve left the programme inspired to continue working as a curator and programmer‘
Past participant
‘[Young Film Programmers] has highlighted career paths I never knew existed. For me, working in film was a secret and unachievable dream, but thanks to you all this is no longer the case‘
Past participant