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What you need to know
What you'll gain
- Mentorship from industry-leading experts
- Access to a network of professionals working in film, as well as connection to a community of fellow curators and programmers at the Barbican
- Hands on experience programming and delivering a large-scale film festival. Gaining practical skills in marketing, event planning, decision-making, and live hosting skills
- Greater knowledge of film and the film industry
- Access to Barbican screenings, exhibitions and shows
What you'll do
- Work as a collective to deliver the Chronic Youth Film Festival.
- Organise the public facing events, such as Q&As, panel discussions, workshops etc.
- Liaise with film makers, film distributors and various Barbican departments.
- Conduct audience research and create an outreach plan to market to target audiences.
- Contribute to the overall design of the festival, including posters, social media assets and foyer spaces.
Schedule
- Barbican Young Film Programmers sessions will run at the Barbican Centre every Wednesday evening 6pm – 9pm from October 2025 until April 2026
- The Chronic Youth Film Festival will take place in April 2026.
- An evaluation session will take place after the festival.
- The full timeline can be found here: Barbican Young Film Programmers Timeline
Facilitation

Isra Al Kassi
Isra is a London based Swedish-Iraqi curator, writer and co-founder of T A P E collective; a cross curatorial collective on a mission to demystify the industry and to represent could-be-cult classics through special curation, production and distribution. With a background in events & marketing Isra is also an outreach and audience development consultant and has a particular interest in mindful audience growth and creating accessible spaces for mixed-heritage storytellers and audiences. Isra has curated for London Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, BFI Southbank, Reclaim the Frame and Aesthetica Short Film Festival. Isra is also an alumna of the Barbican Young Film Programmers.

Invited guests
During the programme, there will be sessions led by various industry professionals in the film sector who will all bring different insights and specialisms to working as a programmer.
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