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About · Press

Press office.

Boilerplate, key facts and who to talk to. Put your deadline in the subject line and we'll tell you straight away if we can meet it.

Press contact

Press enquiries: [email protected], marked 'Press'.

Boilerplate

Futures in Film CIC is a community interest company at Pinewood Studios that gets people into the screen industry from the set. It runs fully funded training, production simulations and placements on working units, with working crew and current kit, under five pillars from technical innovation to inclusive representation. Technology and space at Pinewood are provided by MR Helix Ltd. Futures in Film was a finalist for The Production Guild's Duke of Edinburgh Film & TV Inclusion Award 2025. Company number 14621615.

Key facts
Legal name FUTURES IN FILM C.I.C.
Company number 14621615, registered in England and Wales
Legal form Community interest company limited by shares, asset-locked
Incorporated 27 January 2023
Founder and Chair Rizwan (Riz) Wadan
Board Riz Wadan (Chair), Jeremy Braben, Pete Swarbrick, Alan Piper, Nina Karwalska (Designated Safeguarding Lead)
Where we work Pinewood Studios (base), 3 Mills Studios, Dragon Studios
Recognition Finalist, Duke of Edinburgh Film & TV Inclusion Award 2025, The Production Guild
35mm programme partners Kodak, Panavision, Digital Orchard
Registered office 167–169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London W1W 5PF (correspondence only)

Credit work to the company that did it. MR Helix Ltd, Pixeleyed Pictures Ltd and Screen Sisters CIC are separate companies.

About our origins, for boilerplate: "Like ARRI and ARRI Academy, Futures in Film grew from a technology company, MR Helix Ltd, whose kit goes onto productions and powers our production simulations. Futures in Film is a separate community interest company."

Spokespeople

Riz Wadan, Founder and Chair; Ateeb Malik, Technical and Production Lead; Nina Karwalska, director. The team

Our films

On the unit

  • Visitors watch a tracking vehicle with a crane arm in front of an LED wall at the Pinewood Futures Festival.

    Visitors watch the tracking vehicle and crane in front of the LED wall, Pinewood Futures Festival

  • Trainees work a camera on a tracking vehicle at the Panavision tent during the Pinewood Futures Festival.

    Trainees at the Panavision tent, Pinewood Futures Festival

  • A grip workshop group builds a camera on a stand in a warehouse full of grip equipment.

    A grip workshop at Panavision Greenford

Images and filming

An approved image set, with captions, credits and consent records, is in preparation. Until then, tell us about the piece and we'll send what fits.

  • Filming on our units is welcome with notice. Pinewood issues passes ahead of the day.
  • Consent is asked separately from anyone's place on a programme, and can be withdrawn.
  • We never supply images that identify anyone under 18.