partners

The International Association of Film and Television Schools (Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision – CILECT) was founded in Cannes, France, in 1954 at the proposal of Marcel L’Herbier (IDHEC President) and Rémy Tessonneau (IDHEC General Director) who gathered together for the first time higher education film school representatives from France, Italy, Poland, Spain, UK, USA and USSR. By 2020 CILECT includes over 180 audio-visual educational institutions from 65 countries on 6 continents with 9,000+ teachers and staff that annually train 55,000+ students and communicate with an alumni network over 1,330,000+ strong.

CILECT believes in the inherent inter-connectivity of humankind and fully supports creativity, diversity, cross-cultural thinking and sustainable development as fundamental prerequisites to human existence and progress.

CILECT is committed to developing and promoting the highest standards of education, research and training for film, television and related media through establishing and organizing global and regional forums for the exchange of artistic, pedagogical, methodological and managerial best practices for all its members. 

Partnership activities with the Henry Moore Institute include our MA students having the opportunity to recreate the celebrated Gordon Matta-Clark’s garbage wall from 1970 as part of the ‘A Lesson in Sculpture with John Latham' curated by Lisa Le Feuvre, at Henry Moore Institute. Collaborating with the HMI, Marion Harrison (Senior Lecturer) co-organised Circles of Recognition & Structures of Support which was a collaborative investigation of what it means to pursue a creative practice today and what structures in Leeds exist for early and mid-career artists (February, 2018). Participants included Hardeep Pandahl (LBU alumni), Jill McKnight, Peter Suchin and Roy Claire Potter. In addition to practical activities, the institute has opened up their specialist facilities to our undergraduate and postgraduate students, including their research library and seminar rooms. Collaborative activities have included sharing the hosting of high profile visiting speakers such as Michael Landy and entering partnership agreements for Supporting Emerging Talent with New Contemporaries. This has facilitated emerging contemporary artists to gain teaching experience on our undergraduate Fine Art degree programme as well as providing them with open access to our specialist printmaking, digital print, wood and metal workshops to support the development of exhibitions they are creating at the HMI.

JAMES is a consortium of music, entertainment and media industry organisations collaborating in the support of education and promotion of excellence.

Assessed by industry professionals, we engage with education primarily through our Course Accreditation process which is designed to endorse relevance, quality and continuing innovation throughout the student curriculum.

This not only equips students for a rapidly changing industry, but also ensures that many years of industry experience are not lost to future generations.

JAMES continues to promote supportive links between between industry and education.

We have a very close and productive relationship with Leeds Art Gallery. Working in partnership on British Art Show 8 (BA8), we established twelve talks in the gallery and tutorials for our students in the studio with artists that included Benedict Drew, Rachel Maclean, Ryan Gander, Mikhail Karakis and Anthea Hamiltion. In response to BA8 our students made a short film about the exhibition and a publication focusing on audience engagement which they presented at the National Gallery Edinburgh, Norwich Art Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery. In preparation for a major exhibition of Joseph Beuys at the Gallery, our MA students created large-scale blackboard drawings in the gallery. For several years, postgraduate students have made a series of publications entitled Conversations from the Collection, working with the Leeds Art Gallery curator Nigel Walsh. For New Contemporaries 2019, a series of talks were curated with the selected New Contemporaries’ artists who also came and delivered tutorials on a one-to-one basis in the studio. There was also a series of six artists talks and tutorials who were exhibiting in the Hayward Gallery touring exhibition Slow Painting which was curated by Leeds Fine Art alumni and international critic/curator Martin Herbert. We have co-produced several talks programmes with the gallery who have made their events spaces available to us including the Henry Moore Lecture Theatre. We have also co-hosted conferences with Leeds art Gallery including ART SCIENCE FICTION with key note addresses from Professor Brian Catling and Mark Von Schlegel as well as co-hosting with NAFAE the conference Making Public: The Fine Art Degree Show which included keynote addresses from Paul Winstanley and Kirsty Ogg.

Leeds Dance Partnership supports and celebrates amazing dance in Leeds and beyond, led by world-class organisations and independent dance artists based in the city: Northern Ballet; Yorkshire Dance; Northern School of Contemporary Dance; Leeds Playhouse; Phoenix Dance Theatre; and Leeds Beckett University. A member of the independent dance community also sits on our board. We believe that by working collaboratively, we can do more and have a much bigger impact.

Music:Leeds acts as a centralised point to support, develop, grow and promote music in the city across all levels, genres and cultures. Running projects, events, workshops, creating networking opportunities, and signposting information on music in Leeds. We work with individuals, artists, musicians, local organisations and businesses, funding bodies, local and national government and national music industry bodies.

The 'National Association for Higher Education in the Moving Image' is a forum for debate on teaching the practice of filmmaking in Higher Education.

We showcase a selection of students’ productions at national festivals such as Encounters and Aesthetica Short Film Festival.

Every year we organise Eat Our Shorts (EOS), a dynamic festival of student shorts from the Nahemi membership. EOS offers members a high profile opportunity to showcase their students’ work and provides a unique student-led cultural experience as well as an opportunity for debate and networking.

Every year we offer a number of prestigious awards for students’ productions. For example, we offer a Creativity and Innovation award, and a Cinematography award at Encounters and we select the Best Film festival prize at Ffresh in Wales. Prizes have been sponsored by Kodak, ARRI, Avid, Directors UK, NFTS, LFS and Panasonic.

We organise competitions for student filmmakers including the prestigious Nahemi/Kodak Student Commercial awards with 16mm stock donated by Kodak, and live briefs set by the advertising industry.

We hold an annual conference ‘Talking Shop’ where members can propose papers on sharing good practice and raising key areas of interest and concern for debate.

We are represented on and/or regularly contribute to a variety of national and international organisations, including CHEAD, CILECT, GEECT, MeCCSA, Screenskills, the BFI, the British Council and the Higher Education Academy.

YSI is a unique collaboration between four of Yorkshire’s leading art institutions – the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, The Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The galleries work together to promote sculpture in the region. Celebrating the rich history of Yorkshire as the birthplace of pioneering sculptors, including Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Damien Hirst and as the home of this unique consortium of galleries and celebrated sculpture collections. Leeds Beckett University support of YSI made it possible for the pioneering gallery partnership to develop the ambitious artistic and engagement programme that attracted local, national and international audiences and press coverage in major broadsheets. YSI saw over 500,000 people visiting the festival venues, c. 1 million saw the sculptures in Leeds and Wakefield city centres with over 47,000 people taking part in the workshops and special events, from students in local secondary schools to the international arts press. As the UK’s largest dedicated sculpture festival, the programme featured 18 artists from 13 different countries and 16 artists from across Yorkshire, including new commissions, debut presentations, major exhibitions in the galleries and outdoors, and an engagement programme featuring 923 events. Leeds Beckett University hosted major international artists including Phyllida Barlow in conversation with Louisa Buck, Kimsooja, Tarek Atoui, Tamar Harpaz, Nobuko Tsuchiya in conversation with Sarah Brown, Ayse Erkmen, Holly Hendry, Zadie Xa, Jasleen Kaur, Anne Hardy, James Capper, Veronica Ryan and Alice Channer.