A film guide that looks at Dear Evan Hansen (2021), a coming-of-age musical, based on a hit stage show about a teenage boy suffering from social anxiety who becomes an overnight internet sensation. This guide is useful for exploring topics including Performing Arts, PSHE Education and Psychology in addition to highlighting themes surrounding music, family, friendships, mental health, growing up and anti-bullying.

A film guide that looks at The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), a coming-of-age story which beautifully captures the joys and heartbreaks of growing up. This guide is useful for exploring subjects including PSHE Education, Psychology and English in addition to highlighting topics surrounding mental health, friendships, growing up, books and plays, and school.

This resource for students aged 12 to 16 examines cultural identity and relationships on film as starting point for students to explore their own identity, how it is shaped and how they perceive themselves and others. It also explores a range of relationships including family and friendships, to consider how others influence them, and how they affect others through films ranging including Gone Too Far, Belle, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Girlhood. To download the Black Star: Identity PowerPoint presentation, please visit the Into Film website: https://www.intofilm.org/resources/1144 Black Star is the British Film Institute's autumn 2016 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 selected for use in this resource feature contemporary British stars of black heritage as well as actors from the African diaspora and throughout film history that demonstrate a real range and depth of storytelling. For further information on the BFI Black Star season, please visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/black-star

This resource launches to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week (8-14 May 2017) and has been produced in partnership with Mental Health Foundation. Half of all mental health problems start before the age of 14, and so addressing mental health concerns has never been more at the forefront of the minds of the government, the media and the education sector. Teachers now play a vital role in strengthening the mental health of their young people, but are often not sure how to incorporate this topic into an already jam-packed teaching timetable. Mindfulness Through Film guides teachers and their learners through a series of popular mindfulness activities, such as raising sensory awareness, mindful colouring and walking. It has at its heart a collection of clips from feature and youth-made films, and culminates in a simple filmmaking task. The resource has been developed for young people approaching changing or challenging circumstances, such as exams and transitioning from primary to secondary school, but is suitable across Key Stages 2 and 3, and Second, Third and Fourth Level. The activities link to PSHE curricula and provide an introduction to mindfulness. Interested in learning more about mindfulness through film? Into Film’s Mindfulness Through Film online course explores how film watching and filmmaking can be used to introduce mindfulness principles and exercises. Created in partnership with the Mental Health Foundation, this course includes a variety of film-based strategies to enable you and your learners to confidently engage with mindfulness. Discover how film can help you tap into the mental health benefits of mindfulness, such as enhancing focus, promoting self-regulation, increasing resilience, and improving interpersonal skills. https://www.intofilm.org/mindfulnessthroughfilm Not yet Into Film? Start your free Into Film Club at www.intofilm.org/clubs

Are your learners ready to discover the impossible? This resource, brought to you by Into Film and Disney to celebrate the upcoming release of the new animated adventure Strange World, will encourage learners to embody the attitude of an explorer as they are immersed in a whole new environment full of mystery and impossibility. The two lesson sequence encompasses geography, English, art and design and science with opportunities to develop creative writing skills, speaking and listening, mapping skills and identifying environmental features. The learning opportunities encourage pupils to imagine themselves as explorers of the fantastical setting of Disney’s Strange World and to document their exploration through maps, diary entries and observations of the unusual creatures that inhabit this place.

2022 was a pivotal year for women’s football, with the England Lionesses winning the European Championship – the first time that any England team, men’s or women’s, has won the title. England are set to return in 2023 when the FIFA Women’s World Cup will be played this July. This resource, suitable for use with learners aged 11–16, gives young people the opportunity to analyse how the sport of women’s football and the women who participate in it have been portrayed in a range of films across the years, before planning and producing a creative response to the topic. The resource considers female football players and attitudes towards women in sport more generally. Learners will be given the opportunity to access archive, feature length and documentary film footage to discuss what football has looked like for girls and women over time from as far back as 1920.

The first moving images were shown to audiences in the 1800s. Since then, new technologies and storytelling techniques have been developed, different film styles have gone in and out of fashion, and audience tastes have changed. From Silent to CGI: A Brief History of Cinema has been developed with young people aged 7-14 in mind. It aims to showcase the pivotal moments in the history of cinema, from its early inception to the multi-sensory experience of today. This resource will complement curricular learning (such as history or design and technology) or provide a backdrop to Into Film Club activity involving watching and making films. The resource is comprised of activities, photocopiable student sheets and film clips. Not yet Into Film? Start your free Into Film Club at www.intofilm.org/clubs

A film guide that looks at Blackfish (2013), exploring its key topics and themes through informal discussion.

This resource is suitable for use with learners aged 15 and over and includes themes of public image, online personas, identity, comparisons and anxiety. Curriculum links include PHSE/RSE, English Language, Media Studies and Film Studies. This lesson will introduce learners to the theme of comparisons and how comparing ourselves to others can make us feel. By looking at the character of Kayla in the film Eighth Grade students will be encouraged to consider the potential negative impact of media images on body image and confidence. The selected scenes are included to explore feelings of anxiety that can be associated with comparing yourself to others. Young people will be introduced to aspects of performance and the use of sound to support their analysis of the protagonist. Learners will be asked to reflect on Kayla’s thoughts and feelings and offer alternative words for positive self-thought. The optional filmmaking activities build on the ideas of positive self-talk as well as the power of music to reflect mood and emotion in film.

This resource is a PSHE lesson covering topics within media literacy and digital resilience for ages 14–16 through class discussion and an option for filmmaking. Students will analyse a film which focuses on social media, bullying, privacy and consent to consider how we present ourselves online and how this can affect our lives offline. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on their own experiences with digital media and to speak about the importance of being critical of the things we see online. This resource is suitable for in-class teaching and learning but could also be adapted for home learning or a blended learning approach.

Mamie Till-Mobley might not be a name that is widely recognised but her actions following the brutal lynching of her 14-year-old son Emmett Till in Mississippi, 1955, caused a seismic cultural shift in the twentieth century and acted as the catalyst for the modern Civil Rights movement. Mamie was a mother of one and public school teacher who became a revolutionary civil rights figure in the mid-1950s and campaigned until her death in 2003. Her transformation was marked by her resilience in harnessing her grief and anger towards her son’s murderers and the corrupt justice system of the southern states of the USA, which she used to teach the whole world about the impact of racism, inequality and injustice. There are parallels with the death of Stephen Lawrence in 1993 in London and the activism of his mother Doreen Lawrence, now Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE who kept his image, story and legacy in the public consciousness through media coverage and campaigning against legal injustice.

Once upon a time there was a cat with a sword, a hat, a pair of boots, and a thirst for adventure! This two-lesson sequence brings your class into the world of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish to explore aspects of creative storytelling and exciting characters. Are your learners ready for an epic adventure? The two-lesson sequence incorporates elements of the PHSE/RSE, English/ literacy, design and technology, and art and design curriculums. The learning opportunities encourage pupils to create their own stories, using the conventions of an adventure narrative; be a team player and identify and assess risk, challenging themselves to step out of their comfort zone in the process.

A lesson working with this classic eight minute sci-fi film as stimulus, to plan a persuasive marketing campaign and co-ordinate press coverage of space tourism. For more information about Into Film and help setting up your free Into Film club, visit www.intofilm.org

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 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 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.

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 resource showcases activities for five of the the most popular and effective films featured in Into Film's Inclusion project, funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. The activities draw together best practice to engage students with a range of Special Educational Needs, from mild to severe learning difficulties, to learn through and about film. A version for those familiar with ASN (Additional Support Needs) phrasing is also available. For related content visit www.intofilm.org/resources/219 To find out more about Into Film and start your own Into Film Club visit www.intofilm.org/clubs Did you find this resource useful? Leaving a star rating will help other teachers to find it.

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

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. To start your free Into Film club visit www.intofilm.org/clubs Did you find this resource useful? Leaving a star rating will help other teachers to find it.