Our Year 2017/18 Into Film: Our Year 2017/18 2 WE ARE INTO FILM Into Film puts film at the heart of children and young people’s education, cultural and personal development. Over half of UK schools engage with Our mission is to inspire our programme of Into Film Clubs, dynamic ways of learning teaching resources, training and through and with film cinema screenings. Alongside rich online content for young audiences, and cinema that reach this provides 5–19 year olds with the widest possible youth inspiring opportunities to learn audience across the UK. about and with film, developing a passion for cinema. Into Film runs two flagship events across the year. The Into Film Festival enables over 450,000 children and Because of the Youth Advisory Council, I have young people to access cinema for a more critical view of films and have more free. Our Into Film Awards celebrate the filmmaking and learning confidence to try new things. I feel more achievements of educators and confident public speaking and talking to new pupils from across the UK. people and also being in front of the camera. Into Film is an education charity I have also learned about careers in film and supported principally by the British Film Institute (BFI), through the things I may want to do in the future. National Lottery, Cinema First, and Northern Ireland Screen. MARTHA, 13, YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBER Into Film: Our Year 2017/18 OUR YEAR AT A GLANCE 4 SHOLA MEETS ERIC AND PAUL 5 INTO FILM CLUBS 7 Academic, social and cultural enrichment 8 Inspiring students through film 9 TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES 10 Using film for increased engagement in learning 11 GIVING YOUNG PEOPLE A VOICE 12 Krizzah’s story 13 Hedydd’s story 14 TRAINING 15 Using film to support attainment 16 INTO FILM FESTIVAL AND CINEMA 17 Access to opportunity 18 INTO FILM AWARDS 19 Amy’s story 20 WORKING WITH INDUSTRY 21 An insight into the film industry 22 FINANCE 23 Into Film: Our Year 2017/18 4 OUR YEAR AT A GLANCE Across the UK educators and young people have continued to embrace the opportunities Into Film provides for teaching and learning through and about film. 8,928 190,127 574 INTO FILM CLUBS TEACHING RESOURCES FILMS SUBMITTED DOWNLOADED BY YOUNG PEOPLE 4,829 22,000+ 486,289 EDUCATORS TRAINED SUBSCRIBERS TO OUR INTO FILM FESTIVAL GET INTO FILM CHANNEL ATTENDEES Educators welcome the service that Into Film provides and recognise the benefits that film can have for young people’s academic, cultural, social and personal development. Into Film: Our Year 2017/18 5 SHOLA MEETS PAUL REEVE, CEO OF INTO FILM, ERIC FELLNER, CBE, CO-CHAIRMAN OF ERIC AND PAUL WORKING TITLE FILMS, INTO FILM CHAIR Shola (18) is a Young Reporter for Into Film. Aside from reporting, she is currently on a gap year and plans to travel, make her own films and get more work experience within the film industry. SHOLA What role do you see film SHOLA Evidence suggests the arts SHOLA The annual review looks back playing in education and young and creative subjects such as film at what Into Film has achieved over people’s development? are getting less curricular time in the last year, what do you see as school, what’s your view on this? being the main highlights? PAUL Film tells stories which enable us to see and understand things ERIC It’s not good. The creative PAUL Given the challenging differently – that’s incredibly industries make up a sizeable and conditions for the arts in education, powerful educationally. On the growing percentage of our GDP. and the pressure schools are under practical side, filmmaking helps The idea that we shouldn’t teach our with league tables and Ofsted, it’s an young people to develop transferable children creative subjects or give achievement that we’ve continued skills such as communication and them cultural foundations is very to engage new schools in the teamwork which are valuable for short-sighted. programme and retain those already employment. involved. We’ve also been successful PAUL Since 2010 arts subjects at in connecting our work to the wider ERIC Film is also a great way to GCSE have declined by 34%. I think landscape of education and culture. interest students in a topic and it’s a major failing of our education engage those who might find system that children are being denied learning a challenge. Making films access to the more creative subjects, helps young people to develop life and hence to the skills they’re going skills and opens their eyes to the to need in the future. Even scientists many career options in the film and engineers are worried about the industry. Carpenter, accountant, narrowing of the curriculum. They electrician. There are so many. understand that arts subjects support Paul Reeve, CEO Into Film, learning in other areas, including Shola, Young Reporter, maths and science. Eric Fellner, Into Film Chair Into Film: Our Year 2017/18 7 SHOLA Have you got a personal SHOLA What impact has Into Film had PAUL We’ve got an exciting 12 highlight for the year? on the lives of young people? months ahead of us. Streaming films into the classroom will be a ERIC The Into Film Awards PAUL Aside from increasing young big focus for us, as will developing were strong again this year. people’s knowledge of and interest a benefits card that rewards young It’s a great opportunity for in film, our programme can peoples’ engagement with film. young people, and the talent significantly benefit their personal We’ll also review our key services and hard work of all involved development. One example was at to ensure they meet the needs of is always brilliant to see. an SEN school in Wales where a boy modern-day schools. who hadn’t said a word for months PAUL Mine was the National struck up a conversation with his SHOLA What would you like to say Lottery event at the Houses of teacher about a film they had seen to your supporters and the club Parliament. Seeing Into Film in an Into Film Club. leaders who are creating film chosen as an example of a learning opportunities for children cultural education charity which ERIC We often hear about students and young people through Into benefits from Lottery funding whose school lives are transformed Film’s programme? and creates great impact, through an interest in watching or and hearing Eddie Redmayne making films. They’re contributing ERIC A huge thank you as always. talk about the organisation something and feel valuable, Without you it couldn’t happen and alongside two of our young club sometimes for the first time. let’s keep going. Film tells stories members, was a proud moment. which enable SHOLA What are the main goals PAUL We provide the programme but for the organisation over the next teachers and club leaders deliver us to see and 12 months? it. It’s their choice to run Into Film understand things Clubs, often in their spare time, and ERIC To do what we do better and work with film. They do it because differently – that’s to grow at the same time, whilst they understand the impact that film also accounting for the changing can have – both in terms of cultural incredibly powerful face of the industry and how people development and on learning. As are consuming content. Things are ever, we are hugely appreciative for educationally. moving at such a fast pace and it’s their ongoing support. vital that we develop our offer to PAUL REEVE remain relevant. Into Film: Our Year 2017/18 8 INTO FILM CLUBS Educators and the children and ENGLISH young people they support have continued to embrace the DRAMA AND opportunities that Into Film PERFORMING ARTS 96% provides for teaching and learning through and with film. In 2017/18 HISTORY we supported 8,928 Into Film Clubs across the UK, providing a service GEOGRAPHY OF CLUB LEADERS SAY THAT that engaged nearly 250,000 For many educators, Into Film Clubs INTO FILM CLUB IMPROVES children and young people. play a key role in supporting pupil CRITICAL THINKING attainment and the development of PHSE Our 2017/18 Into Film annual club key skills such as communication leader survey shows how valuable and team building. ART AND DESIGN film can be in the classroom. More than 80% of club leaders who Promoting the viewing of titles responded used film to illustrate a beyond the mainstream is a core MUSIC 80% curriculum area, and over half used aim of the organisation and 41% film to explore social issues such as of all films ordered this year were ICT racism, bullying and the environment. specialised, a category that includes British independent and heritage MEDIA STUDIES film. Other opportunities included OF CLUB LEADERS SAY review writing, filmmaking activities, THAT INTO FILM CLUB FILM STUDIES ENRICHES LEARNING IN competitions, rich online content, ENGLISH AND LITERACY special events, careers information and access to industry professionals. OVER HALF OF CLUB LEADERS SAY THAT INTO FILM CLUB ENRICHES LEARNING IN THE ABOVE Statistics taken from the 2017 Into Film annual club leader survey. Into Film: Our Year 2017/18 9 Since starting Into Film Club in October ACADEMIC, CULTURAL AND 2017, the change in Armaan has been SOCIAL ENRICHMENT unbelievable. His confidence has grown and grown and he is now taking film to “With over 26 languages spoken it his classroom, engaging his peers and is crucial we have a medium that ANDREW DIXON engages all children.