BFI Film Academy offers opportunities for ambitious 16-25 year olds, anywhere in the UK, to get to know more about film and how to forge a career in the screen industries. To read about our full programme of events, click here.

For this month's BFI Academy event we will be welcoming Philip Hoile from Bulldog Film Distribution for an industry insight into the inner workings of film distribution.

Philip Hoile will provide insight into his extensive career in the film industry as a distributor and marketeer with 17 years’ experience working across a wide range of film and entertainment projects for distributors, exhibitors, international sales companies, festivals and film culture organisations.

Bulldog Film Distribution is a Brighton-based fully independent film distributor releasing films through all media in the UK and Ireland. Their library includes a wide range of award-winning drama and genre features and documentaries including Margin Call, Possum, Tucked, Support The Girls and Hello, Bookstore.

Delivered by Fabrica in partnership with Screen Shot on behalf of Young Film Network South East, supported with National Lottery funding.