Casual for good

The Casual Academy

Empowering young people from diverse backgrounds to learn the craft of filmmaking.

The Casual Academy gives 16–25-year-olds from diverse backgrounds hands-on filmmaking experience. Working alongside our professional filmmakers, members attend skills workshops covering creative, scripting, filming and editing.

Each programme culminates in the production of a pro-bono film for a local non-profit — real, professional experience from concept to final cut. So far we’ve reached 150 young people across our home cities.

1Academy films

Made by our members, for good causes.

Beating Bowel Cancer Beating Bowel Cancer
Guardian Gyms Guardian Gyms
Back On My Feet Back On My Feet

Casual Academy

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