Abingdon Film Unit

An internationally known student film company based at Abingdon School. The group for members: http://www.facebook.com/groups/264668200222125/

The Abingdon Film Unit (AFU) is a small organisation that enables secondary school pupils between the ages of 13 and 18 to make their own short documentary or animated films under the guidance of a team of industry professionals led by the renowned documentary maker Michael Grigsby.

Based at Abingdon School, a boys’ independent school near Oxford, the Unit was formed in 2003 by Grigsby and a teacher at the school, Jeremy Taylor. Together with visiting tutors Jonas Mortensen (cinematography), Mikkel Eriksen (sound design), Arvid Eriksson (editing) and animators Joanna Harrison and Geoff Dunbar, they have developed a way of working with the students that encourages them to adopt the highest standards, and to develop their ideas through a process of careful research and reflection that seeks to clarify at every stage the aims and intentions of their films.