Into Film is an education organisation providing a unified UK-wide offer for learning through and about film. It is supported by the British Film Institute (BFI) through Lottery funding and its programme includes delivery of the BFI 5-19 education scheme. Into Film's resources range from film discussion guides, to curriculum linked worksheets, lesson plans and presentations. Our resources are tailored to fit the curriculum criteria of each nation, supporting learning outcomes.
Into Film is an education organisation providing a unified UK-wide offer for learning through and about film. It is supported by the British Film Institute (BFI) through Lottery funding and its programme includes delivery of the BFI 5-19 education scheme. Into Film's resources range from film discussion guides, to curriculum linked worksheets, lesson plans and presentations. Our resources are tailored to fit the curriculum criteria of each nation, supporting learning outcomes.
This resource contains a guide to seven films, which have been specially selected to be accessible to learners aged 7-19. The guides include discussion questions and activity ideas to encourage learners to ask and answer questions about films that reflect different cultures and ways of life around the world. The flims and languages featured in the resources are; Wadjda (Arabic), La Famille Belier (French), Max Minsky und Ich/ Max Minsky and Me (German), La Juala de Oro/ The Golden Dream (Spanish), Goodbye Lenin! (German) and Carlitos y el Campo de los Suenos/ Carlitos and the Chance of a Lifetime (Spanish).
Visit the Into Film website to download the accompanying European Day of Languages PowerPoint presentation with accompanying clips.
Into Film have created a presentation suitable for assembly, club or classroom use that teachers and club leaders can use to shine a light on black filmmakers working in the industry today and to inspire young people to tell stories of their own using film.
Included in the assembly are embedded video clips for interactive learning, featuring interviews with prominent black filmmakers and actors such as Letitia Wright from Black Panther,* Belle* and A United Kingdom director Amma Asante, director of Bliss! Rita Osei, Spectre actress Naomie Harris, screenwriter of Belle Misan Sangay and *12 Years A Slave *director Steve McQueen. Also included are a range of discussion points designed to raise important questions on diversity in the film industry and the importance of telling stories from different cultures. The assembly can be delivered in its entirety or used in sections for tutor sessions and the extension activities would be perfect for a homework task.
Black Star is the British Film Institute’s celebration of the range, versatility and power of black actors on film and TV taking place nationwide and we’re delighted to be complementing their season with a programme of relevant films that resonate with our audience of 5-19 year olds. Embracing the BFI’s direction of illuminating on-screen talent, the films we’ve selected feature contemporary British stars of black heritage, as well as actors from the African diaspora and from throughout film history that demonstrate a real range and depth of storytelling.
Visit the following link for further details on the Black Star season: http://www.bfi.org.uk/black-star
A resource to support teachers to work with short and feature length films to develop pupils' speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. The resource contains clips, stills and activity materials to deliver engaging and innovative lessons to learn language through active film watching, filmmaking and creative work. The resource includes stimulus material to develop language skills on the topics of sport, colours, the body, emotions and storytelling, and to integrate language learning across the curriculum.
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A resource produced in partnership with Education Scotland, Scottish Book Trust and LGBT Youth Scotland. The activities in this resource are designed to encourage educators and young people to explore Scotland through film, focusing specifically on two central themes: Language and Identity. From classic cinema through to modern day representations of Scotland on film, the resource touches on history, myth, and culture. It also uses film with accompanying Scots language texts, encouraging learners to explore the language in historical and modern contexts. The sections on identity cover many aspects of what it can mean to be Scottish from personal identity, including LGBT, to rural and city living.
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Goireas air a riochdachadh ann an compàirteachas le Foghlam Alba, Urras Leabhraichean na h-Alba agus Òigridh LGDT na h-Alba. Tha na gnìomhan sa ghoireas seo air an dealbhadh gus luchd-teagasig agus òigridh a bhrosnachadh Alba a rannsachadh tro fhilm, ag amharc gu sònraichte air dà phrìomh theama: Cànan agus Fèin-aithne. O hfilmichean clasaigeach gu riochdan na h-Alba là an-diugh air an sgàilean, tha an goireas a' buntainn ri eachdraidh, ùrsgeul agus cultar. Tha e cuideachd a' cleachdadh film an cois theacsaichean sa Bheurla Ghallta, a' brosnachadh luchd-ionnsachaidh a bhith a' rannsachadh a' chànain ann an coitheacsan sean is ùra. Tha na h-earrannan mu fhèin-aithne a' deiligeadh ri iomadh feartan a tha e a' ciallachadh a bhith nad Albannach, a' toirt a-steach dòighean beatha LGDT, dùthchail agus anns a' bhaile mhòr.
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This resource explores what it means to be part of the Commonwealth, offering insights into the culture and identity of Commonwealth countries and reflecting on life in the UK and the activities centre on four carefully chosen films from across the Commonwealth: The First Grader; Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom; Tracks and He Named Me Malala.
The activities are designed to work across a range of subjects, these activities enable pupils to develop a range of skills across the following curriculum areas: English and literacy, citizenship, wellbeing, PSHE, PSE and PDMU; PSHE, and geography.
The accompanying PowerPoint presentation can be downloaded from the Into Film website at the following link: https://www.intofilm.org/resources/1051
This film-focused resource enables teachers and pupils to explore what it means to be part of the Commonwealth, gaining insights into the culture and identity of Commonwealth countries and reflecting on life in the UK. The activities centre on four carefully chosen films from across the Commonwealth that will engage and excite pupils in exploring key themes -Whale Rider, Fly Away Home, Like Stars on Earth and Paper Planes.
The resource has been designed to work across a range of subjects, these activities enable pupils to develop a range of skills and the curriculum areas of English and literacy, citizenship, wellbeing and PSHE, art and design and geography.
This resource encourages pupils to explore and reflect on how the identity of people and places is represented on film, as well as looking at young people’s voice and the different strategies communities use to organise and motivate change. The activities centre on four carefully chosen films from different countries that will engage and excite pupils by exploring key themes: Brave; Kirikou And The Men And The Women; Song of the Sea and Into Film Award-winning pupil-made short film Political Animals. The accompanying PowerPoint presentation including clips from the film can be downloaded from the following link: https://www.intofilm.org/resources/1052.
This resource has been designed to work across a range of subjects, with activities enabling pupils to develop a range of skills. The curriculum areas include English and literacy, Art and design, wellbeing, PSHE, PSE and PDMU; geography and music.
This film-focused resource enables you to explore ideas of identity, voice and self-expression with your students. The resource prompts a consideration of citizenship and of how individual and shared identity can be constructed
and expressed, as well as how it is represented and seen by others. Wider issues such as young people’s voice, representation and rights are explored through the use of film sequences and images.
Activities centre on five carefully chosen films that will engage and excite students in exploring key themes: Goodbye Lenin!; Persepolis; Sunshine on Leith, Passport to Pimlico and La Famille Bélier.
Mythbusters: Respect for IP uses an online ‘mythbusting' quiz to challenge young people into confronting common perceptions about intellectual property and film viewing choices. Students can then conduct their own research into the topic of respect for IP, before bringing it all together and creating their own quiz to challenge friends and family.
This short resource can be used in informal settings or the classroom and is perfect to explore in the lead up to the summer holidays. Developed in partnership with Industry Trust.
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This immersive, exciting and varied resource will take young people on a quest to become Chopstick Warriors by teaching them about the history and handling of chopsticks. They will teach others and perform a range of challenges to perfect the art of the chopstick, then battle other competitors in school, culminating in The Rice Challenge, with the intention of being crowned Chopstick Master.
Teachers are provided with a fun downloadable ‘Chopstick Challenge' resource pack that includes how to create and run a Chopstick League within their school. This is an easy to use end of term resource designed to bring the school community together with an engaging and challenging project to help celebrate the end of the school year. The DVD is on general release from July 11th 2016. The accompanying Kung Fu Panda 3 PowerPoint presentation including embedded clips can be downloaded from the Into Film website: https://www.intofilm.org/kung-fu-panda-3
Look out for the Chopstick Challenge competition coming soon! Check the Into Film Twitter page for more info.
This resource is for teachers and film club leaders to use to mark Refugee Week, and as stimulus to discuss the hardships and resilience of refugees around the globe.
This resource contains guides to two short documentary films, Hamsa and Boya Boya (Shine Shine) which have been specially selected to be accessible to learners within the 11 to 19 age range. The guides include discussion questions, and activity ideas to encourage learners to ask and answer questions and reflect on why people seek sanctuary in other countries.
For more Into Film resources and to start your free Into Film club visit www.intofilm.org
A resource to work with the 2016 feature film Race, which tells the amazing life story of Jesse Owens and his performance at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, engaging audiences with the impact of an individual and events on the world stage both 80 years ago and today. This resource should be used with the accompanying Race PowerPoint presentation, which contains clips, stills and prompt questions to support delivery of all the activities outlined in these notes. Through these activities learners can deepen their understanding and critical analysis of these significant historical events and compare interpretations in Race with other sources of information, and in turn create their own pieces of writing, artwork and/or filmmaking to reflect and share ideas on the themes raised in the film.
Big Picture Project gives young people a unique perspective on our beautiful and changing Earth, through the eyes of an astronaut. The STEM project, which has at its heart the breathtaking new IMAX® film, A Beautiful Planet, empowers them to see that small actions in their everyday lives have maximum impact when we all work together to instigate positive behavioural change.
Students are tasked by an astronaut to carry out scientific experiments and research into everyday water, waste and travel habits, and then apply an 'IMAX® Scale Tool' to assess the huge potential impact for change in their school, their country and across the UK. The resource is suitable for educators of young people aged 7-14 and includes: environmental case studies; fun facts about the Earth and life aboard the International Space Station; three lesson plans with PowerPoint presentations and activity sheets; an editable certificate and more.
Showing in selected IMAX® screens from Friday 27th May.
These resources were created in partnership between Into Film, SUPER and IMAX®.
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This engaging resource, inspired by STUDIOCANAL's new animated take on a classic tale, features a series of activities for use in your classroom to inspire pupils to think creatively and demonstrate outstanding communication and problem solving skills. Activities encourage children to engage with the quirky colourful characters in Robinson Crusoe, including Tuesday the Parrot, Scrubby the Goat and Rosie the Tapir, exploring their personalities and their island home using verbal and non-verbal communication effectively. Activities can be used in their entirety or as engaging starter or extension activities in an existing lesson or workshop.
A resource based on the Disney film Zootropolis. Students can become entrepreneurs like the character of Nick. The resource contains activity outlines and activity sheets to support students to create a healthy popsicle recipe, tradmark their creation, calculate production costs and apply for a loan from The First Bank of Zootropolis to start their business.
This film is available to stream free on Into Film+ https://www.intofilm.org/films/18642
This resource covers a range of films from Hugo and Coraline to Private Peaceful to explore popular book adaptations on film. It is the perfect way to kick-off or refresh your club with a range of exciting films and activities to aid discussion.
For more information on starting an Into Film club, please visit www.intofilm.org/clubs
This resource, comprising of a Silent Shakespeare: The Tempest 1908 PowerPoint and PDF, provides a range of activities based on the 3Cs and 3Ss of film to help young people to explore this silent adaptation of the play. The activities are differentiated and are suitable for both primary and secondary students.
Activities range from analysing the film using the 3Cs and 3Ss, creating special effects on film to composing character motifs for a soundtrack.
The whole film can be viewed at the following link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tempest-silent-shakespeare-11184457
Careers in Film - Secondary introduces students aged 11 to 16 to a range of potential careers in the film industry through a variety of learning activities, with cross-curricular links to STEAM subjects and a variety of skills. It has been created to respond to the need for new, homegrown talent by providing an opportunity for students to explore how they might see themselves as part of the industry. By watching clips and interviews, researching and trying out well-known and unfamiliar roles in the sector, learners can begin to understand the skills they are already developing across the curriculum that could one day translate to fulfilling careers.
This comprehensive resource has been produced by Into Film in partnership with BAFTA, Creative Skillset, The Production Guild, Film Distributors' Association, The Industry Trust and UK Cinema Association. All educators should download the PPT and Educators' Notes, and whichever Student Workbook and Skills Audit PDFs are suitable for their cohort (11-14 or 14-16).
Exclusive industry interviews and masterclasses are available to watch at www.intofilm.org/careers-secondary
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Explore Hamlet with this creative workbook that helps students to analyse the play based on the Shakespeare: The Animated Tales adaptation of the play through the 3Cs (character, camera, colour) and 3Ss (story, setting, sound). This resource is suitable for students aged 7 plus and the teachers' notes includes extension activities.
For information on how to start a free Into Film club and to order this DVD for free, please visit http://www.intofilm.org/schools-film-clubs
The Into Film Storymaker: The Gruffalo Edition is a literacy-focused app which supports storytelling in lower primary school settings. It features key scenes from The Gruffalo film and is supported by an extensive cross-curricular teaching resource. Pupils are able to record their own voices using existing or new narrative and dialogue, and choose a suitable soundtrack and sound effects. Download the teachers' notes, supporting PowerPoint presentation and curriculum links, then head to www.intofilm.org/gruffalo-storymaker for information about how to download the app.
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