From DIY guerilla to major production force of nature

Our unique degree is designed to mimic the way we acquire new skills in the real world. Start with practical 'hands on' work and follow up later with an enriching foundation of analysis and theory. 

Kick off with a breathless onslaught of practical filmmaking under heavy constraints, building your capabilities of making films under any circumstances. A filmmaking bootcamp that challenges, stretches and perhaps occasionally overwhelms you. It's a perfect environment for fast tracking your skillset and building the capabilities and resilience required to flourish during the rest of the course.

Then focus on quality, squeezing everything you’ve got into every second of screen time, whilst immersing yourself in the work and methodology of those who came before you. Learn to beg, borrow and steal from the greats. They did the same themselves!

With everything you've learnt it's time to take your first steps into the professional film industry. Reach your audience, start building an industry network, and execute your major final project.

Throughout the experience you’ll be challenged and supported by our tutor team of award-winning filmmakers and industry professionals with hands-on, practical workshops, industry-relevant assessments, and a team of other young filmmakers that have come from around the world to take this course alongside you.

Learn more about our degree courses in Film Production

Study Filmmaking at Catalyst

Maximise your hands-on access to state-of-the-art filmmaking facilities and equipment.

Our tutors are industry experienced with a passion for passing on their knowledge to others. Here are a few of the experienced and friendly tutors that will be supporting you throughout your learning process. 

In the end it doesn’t matter what we say or do. What matters is what our students are doing during their time with us. Take a look at a selection of our favourite work by our filmmakers and screen actors.

Our courses will toss you into some of the longest hours, hardest work, and most difficult interpersonal and intercultural situations you’ve ever had to face. But that’s filmmaking. It wouldn’t be authentic any other way. And we won’t drag you through it, either; you’ll be expected to meet the bar we keep raising with forward momentum and high spirits. If you can do that, we promise you accelerated personal and professional growth, not to mention an unforgettable experience, lifelong friends and career contacts, and a portfolio that’s full to burst.

A breathless onslaught of ‘hands on’ filmmaking projects, skill building workshops and enrichening analysis on our BA bachelor degree in film production.

Film Production BA Degree Course

Creative Production (Film) Masters Degree

Explore, develop, innovate and magnify your capabilities as a filmmaker, director, cinematographer, editor, writer, producer, sound designer or audiovisual artist, whilst building and enhancing an artistic & creative industry profile.

The course provides a clear but flexible framework for negotiated and self-directed learning. Pursue your chosen interest or specialisation through an iterative practice-based research approach supported by seminars, workshops, informal meetings, our excellent film facilities and individual consultation. Our seminars and workshops provide a thorough grounding in practice-led research theory and methodology alongside a wider range of research in audiovisual storytelling and the arts.

The taught component is not intended to give answers to your questions, but to stimulate curiosity, to widen and deepen frames in your field of interest, grow conceptual reference, and most importantly to provide a set of tools with which to explore and develop your personal research ideas and concepts.

During this intensive and challenging year (or 2 years part-time) our team will supervise and guide you through a constant cycle of imagining, creating, critiquing, self discovery and growth. 

Celebrate, explore, develop, innovate and magnify your capabilities as a filmmaker, director, cinematographer, editor, writer, producer, sound designer or audiovisual artist, whilst building and enhancing an artistic and creative industry profile. Our Creative Production (Film) M.A provides a clear but flexible framework for negotiated and self-directed learning. Pursue your chosen interest or specialisation through an iterative practice-based research approach supported by industry experts, seminars and workshops from our excellent studio facilities. 

Malachi Rempen - filmmaker, writer, illustrator, entrepreneur and Film Production Certificate Lead, Juli Saragosa - filmmaker, sound designer and film sound tutor, and Jon-Carlos Evans - screenwriting, production & industry specialist and cinematography tutor; discuss the benefits of self directed learning and joining our creative community at Berlin's historic Funkhaus. 

Find out more: https://www.dbsfilm.net/creative-production-masters

Creative Production Masters Degree in Film

Creative production is an intentionally broad term. Film production, cinematography, set design, screenplay, narrative building or an innovative interdisciplinary form including some or all of the above.

Convert vulnerabilities into strengths, barriers into new pathways, pain points into pleasure and fears into exciting new frontiers for exploration. It’s a chance to explore all that you are and all that you are…not yet(!) whilst mapping out your future potential and your possible futures.

Collaborate with students across our filmmaking, visual effects, acting and music courses. Gain access to professional film facilities, equipment, software and more. 

Our tutors are industry experienced with a passion for passing on their knowledge to others. Here are a few of the experienced and friendly tutors that will be supporting you throughout your learning process.

Our international creative campus is located at the historic Funkhaus in Berlin – it’s hard to imagine a better location for creative endeavour and learning! Through the lense of an international cohort of students we aim to promote and support the exchange and debate of philosophical, political, social and ethical issues from a range of different cultures and backgrounds. Our engaged postgraduate community are then well placed to spearhead these conversations and create work that addresses the challenges of a multi cultural but ever more connected world. To see our shared concerns as human beings whilst celebrating our diversity and our mutually enrichening differences.

Celebrate & explore your capabilities as a filmmaker, director, cinematographer, editor, writer or producer on our MA masters degree course in film production

Creative Film Production MA Masters Degree

Nnenna's motto: "you can do anything, but you can’t do everything". So we're honoured she chose to teach on both the Masters and the Bachelors in our Film School

Originally from Ghana and Nigeria, Nnenna has worked as a researcher and moving-image artist - which has led to her work being exhibited at the Galerie im Turm, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Brücke Museum and Kunstverein Hamburg. She is currently completing a PhD in Media Anthropology and Global History at Harvard University and the University of Potsdam. With such an impressive CV in the Brandenburg area alone, it's no surprise that Nnenna has come to consider Berlin her home.

Nnenna started working for Catalyst in 2022/3, mainly teaching courses on the Film MA (including a module on Modern Cinematic Perspectives), but also some visiting sessions on the Film Production BA course, working with the theme “Films That Changed Us". 

Moving image artist and researcher Nnenna Onuoha teaches across our Film School at Catalyst Berlin. Read Nnenna Onuoha's bio here.