The Film Education Website
This website and its library of resources is accessible, free of charge, for teachers and their students across the UK.
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Whilst no new content will be added to this site we are pleased to provide links to the following:
History-Film-History is an educational film platform, created with the support of Creative Europe. The aim of the project is to increase the interest of young people in European film, film heritage and to establish its pedagogical potential across a range of curriculum subjects.
Produced by Neues Wege des Lernens, we have now translated this interactive website site into English. Featuring the iconic film from the late 1990’s to covers a whole range of topics, from editing to publicity.
We hope that you will find it useful.
We are delighted to announce that the 25th anniversary edition of Teaching Trailers – the most popular resource produced by Film Education and more recently by The Film Space – is now online and free to use
This online course introduces and explores the concepts and means used in the film distribution process, focus is on identifying the Who, How, When, What and Where of releasing a film and the pivotal role of film distributors as films make their way to cinemas and beyond.
'InCinema2016' is an educational resource based on the Film Distributors’ Association Yearbook 2017.
Making use of fascinating facts and figures about what the UK cinema audience chose to see in 2016 the resource explores a variety of issue arising from the statistics. Aimed at students of Film and Media studies aged 14-18. Business Studies would also find this an interesting topic
Online teaching resource celebrating the centenary of professional film distribution in the UK now available HERE, free of charge to UK schools and colleges, courtesy of the Film Distributors’ Association.
Resource features a unique ‘trailer maker’, an interactive timeline, interviews, trailers and downloadable study notes.
The SHAKESPEARE ON FILM site is now live! Featuring resources on 13 of Shakespeare’s plays, from Romeo and Juliet to Titus Andronicus, the resources cover over 25 different filmed versions of his works.
SELMA - Educational Resource Offering a range of interactivity based on the film and from archive sources to build students’ awareness of the contemporary significance of the US civil rights movement and help to develop knowledge and understanding of how primary sources can inform contemporary filmmaking.
The Thinking Film project, originally a series of DVD and CD ROM’s, is now available to download. In each case a folder containing the study clips and pdf’s of worksheets will download onto your desktop.
Resources
Our free resources cover a wide range of curriculum areas and include film clips, Teachers' Notes and a range of activities.
Film Library
Film information with links to study guides, web resources, DVDs
Thinking Film resource series
A series of DVDs with selected film clips and downloadable curriculum-related teaching materials
How to Train Your Dragon
Primary Literacy CD-ROM resource now available to download.
War Horse resource
Online War Horse resource for KS3 English, Media and History, and KS2 Science and PSHEE
Screenings
We run a series of free events and screenings for school groups at local cinemas across the UK, including National Schools Film Week.
In the House archive
Exclusive photos and clips from our Q&A with In the House director Francois Ozon
Great Expectations screenings archive
Information on preview screening and Q&A held as part of Film Week 2012
Navigators screening archive
Clips and photos from the Navigators screening and Q&A with Ken Loach
Woman in Black archive
Audio clips from our Q&A with Woman in Black director James Watkins
Latest news
Press clippings, updates and links to articles on our wide range of activities.
Young Film Critics review First Light films
Winners of Young Film Critic 2012, have written fantastic reviews of films featured in the First Light Awards 2013.
Learning on Screen Awards nomination
Thinking Film, Thinking History nominated for Learning on Screen Awards 2013
ESR blog on Life of Pi
Some kind things about our Life of Pi resource and others.
Articles on the Holocaust
For Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 Jan, TES have reviewed our resources