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.
Wales has a long and rich film history. This resource showcases and celebrates the breadth of film created in Wales or featuring Welsh talent, as well as supporting teachers in engaging with film as a core learning tool. The activities are designed to fit the National Curriculum for Wales and to encourage educators and young people to explore Wales through film, focusing specifically on three central Welsh themes: Landscape, Myth, Legend and Nature, and Culture and Heritage. From classic cinema through to modern day representations of Wales on film, the resource explores Welsh history, language, industry, culture and society.
How to use this resource
The resource features questions and activities based around each film, as well as thematic activities that explore aspects of Landscape, Myth, Legend and Nature, Culture and Heritage. In addition, the resources use clips provided in the accompanying PowerPoint presentation available from the Into Film website: https://www.intofilm.org/resources/1149 . Activities create engagement with film through watching, discussing, analysing and filmmaking.
Also available to download from below, Wales on Film Secondary in Welsh language format.
Cymru ar Ffilm Uwchradd
Mae gan Gymru hanes ffilm hir a chyfoethog. Mae'r adnodd hwn yn arddangos ac yn dathlu ehangder ffilm a grëwyd yng Nghymru neu sy'n cynnwys talent o Gymru, yn ogystal ag cefnogi athrawon o ran ymgysylltu â ffilm fel arf dysgu craidd. Mae'r gweithgareddau wedi eu cynllunio i gyd-fynd â'r Cwricwlwm Cenedlaethol Cymru ac i annog addysgwyr a phobl ifanc i archwilio Cymru drwy ffilm, gan ganolbwyntio'n benodol ar dair thema Cymraeg canolog: Tirwedd, Chwedlau a Natur, a Diwylliant a Threftadaeth. O sinema glasurol trwy i gynrychioliadau gyfoes o Gymru ar ffilm, mae'r adnodd yn archwilio hanes, iaith, diwydiant, diwylliant a chymdeithas Cymru.
Sut i ddefnyddio'r adnodd hwn
Mae'r adnodd yn cynnwys cwestiynau a gweithgareddau yn seiliedig o amgylch pob ffilm, yn ogystal â gweithgareddau thematig sy'n archwilio agweddau ar Dirwedd, Chwedlau a Natur, Diwylliant a Threftadaeth. Yn ogystal, mae'r adnoddau yn defnyddio clipiau a ddarperir yn y cyflwyniad PowerPoint. Mae'r gweithgareddau yn ymgysylltu â ffilm drwy wylio, trafod, dadansoddi a gwneud ffilmiau.
Raise awareness of issues surrounding the environment, pollution and global warming, using film analysis and filmmaking opportunities. These activities incorporate outdoor learning, which offer great opportunities for young people to get out into the world that they're studying, helping to further engage them with their local environment. This resource is designed to be used with the accompanying PowerPoint presentation, which contains films clips, stills and discussion points.
Related content can be found at www.intofilm.org/eco-explorers
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A film guide that looks at Rafiki (2019), exploring its key topics and themes through informal discussion.
Into Film is the UK’s leading charity for film in education. We support educators to unlock the power of film to deliver transformative learning outcomes for children and young people aged 5-19 in class, extra-curricular settings and in cinemas. Designed in partnership with educators, our programme features the UK’s only school-specific film streaming service(Into Film+), online teaching resources and training, careers information, cinema screenings and a network of extra-curricular film clubs. The core Into Film programme is free for UK state schools thanks to funding from the National Lottery (through the BFI), Cinema First and Northern Ireland Screen
Developed by Into Film with National Schools Partnership, the Malala Youth Voice programme uses the inspirational story of Malala to enable young people across the UK to develop their own confidence, public speaking and campaigning skills, inspiring them to become active citizens who speak up on the issues that matter the most to them. Aimed at Key Stage 3-5 (or equivalent), this cross-curricular programme will help bring citizenship, PSHE, English and media studies learning to life for students aged 13-19 in a unique way that will excite and engage. Download the accompanying PowerPoint and assembly at the following link: http://www.intofilm.org/news/articles/malala-resources-live#.VioM4GRHDp0
Students aged 13-19 can enter our Malala Youth Voice competition, giving them the chance to lend their voice to Malala’s campaign, or to speak out on an issue that they are passionate about. Simply make a short campaign film, between 6-60 seconds long, upload it to our Malala Youth Voice gallery, and then encourage your friends and family to take up your cause and vote for your film on the site. You can even share your films on social media to help spread your campaign!
The film submission deadline is 5pm November 13th, but the voting deadline is Midday November 20th. Visit www.intofilm.org for further details.
This film is now free to stream on Into Film+ https://www.intofilm.org/films/18442
A film guide that looks at Do the Right Thing (1989), exploring its key topics and themes through informal discussion.
This film is now available to stream for free on Into Film+ https://www.intofilm.org/films/19233
National Schools Partnership and Into Film with Pathé launch A United Kingdom: The Power of Unity. This inspirational, free educational resource uses the brand new film A United Kingdom, released in cinemas on 25th November, to help young people, aged 11-18, discover the power that unity has to transform societies and shape British values.
The film tells the remarkable true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Beuchuanaland (modern Botswana) and Ruth Williams, a London office worker, whose love triumphed over oppression and intolerance to lay the foundations for one of Africa’s most peaceful and prosperous countries.
This flexible resource, which supports the PSHE/LLW/PSE/Health & Wellbeing and History curricula, as well as SMSC education, will immerse students in the post-war period of the British Empire in Africa, while bringing into focus the contemporary relevance of the story. They will build empathy with the film’s key characters, discover what shaped their views and actions, and reflect on how British values have developed to include tolerance and respect for cultural diversity and interracial relationships.
The programme will empower students to become unity ambassadors, promoting tolerance and respect for others in their own schools and communities. They will be encouraged to create and share a statement about why they think unity is powerful or examples of when they’ve seen unity conquer difference on a unity message board in school and via social media for the chance to win great prizes.
This film is available to stream free at Into Film+ https://www.intofilm.org/films/18745
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 learning sequence will immerse the class in the Marvels Cinematic Universe and encourage learners to become their own hero – reflecting on how they see themselves and building their self-esteem and confidence. With links to the PSHE, RSE and English/literacy curriculums, a film clip will first be used as a stimulus for students to discuss the character of Kamala Khan via a ‘Role on the Wall’ activity. Here they will explore Kamala’s newfound powers and how she feels about harnessing them versus how she appears to those around her and how the perception of those in her team can lead to her empowerment. Inspired by the heroes in the film, learners will explore the skills they can offer to the world and the importance of team effort using the Becoming Your Own Hero activity sheet.
There will be a focus on a supportive and empowering learning environment as students will feed into each other’s self-reflection to build confidence and contribute to one another’s’ positive self-image. There is an added opportunity for learners to think about one of their own goals and how they would achieve them by following in the footsteps of the Marvels using a framework based on the concept of ‘Higher. Further. Faster. Together’.
As an extension, students can explore how the skills they exemplify can be transferrable across a range of exciting careers using information on the Youth Employment UK website. A competition to drive further engagement will ask students to imagine themselves as a hero on someone else’s wall.
Using Art and Design skills, students will use the Future Hero competition sheet to create a poster depicting themselves as someone others look up to. This depiction can be inspired by a career, challenge or goal that they wish to pursue in the future.
Andrew Onwubolu MBE has developed his craft of filmmaking throughout his career from a self-taught filmmaker uploading music videos and short films to YouTube to being awarded an MBE for services to Drama and Music.
This resource comprises three lessons which introduce learners to
Andrew Onwubolu, his filmmaking style and debate the role of an
auteur in a film production.
Download the full resource from the Into Film website.
Lesson 1 - Guerilla Filmmaking and Autuer Theory
The first lesson in this resource introduces or reacquaints young people studying GCSE or A level Film Studies with the concept of an auteur by analysing the filmmaking style and directorial motifs in Andrew Onwubolu’s film Blue Story and his earlier work Shiro’s Story. This will lead on to analysing the theory and features of auteurism in the films of Spike Lee, John Singleton and Alfred Hitchcock. Learners are then tasked with planning a crowdfunding campaign for a film production before planning and filming a revision film on the topic of
auteurism in the style of one of the filmmakers discussed in this lesson.
Lesson 2 - Discovering the Auteur
This second lesson continues to develop learners’ understanding of auteurism by debating who has the most creative control on a film production before planning a presentation. The project for this lesson is to produce a film in the style of one of the auteurs studied in this lesson sequence, summarising what learners know about auteur theory to be used as a revision aid.
Lesson 3 - Debating the Auteur
The final lesson in this sequence is an opportunity for learners to practise writing an answer to an examination-style question which is scaffolded with opportunities for peer and class feedback before individuals produce their own essay.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was born on 21st April 1926 and reigned as the Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms from 6th February 1952 until her death on Thursday 8th September 2022.
This resource which is suitable for use with learners aged 7 to 16 and is relevant for assemblies, tutor time and can support English, history and citizenship teaching.
During her lifetime over 100 films portrayed Queen Elizabeth. For this resource we have selected three which depict different stages of her life: her childhood in The King’s Speech, her teenage years in A Royal Night Out, and later in her life after acceding to the throne in The Queen, which is available for UK educators to stream for free on Into Film + . In addition to feature films this resource includes the use of archive content shot during Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, as well as her spending time with her young family.
This resource comprises:
• A teachers’ notes document which explains the activity outlines and the historical context of each clip used within the presentation
• An accompanying Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: A Life on Screen PowerPoint presentation which includes embedded content from the films and archive footage (please note that the archive footage is removed from this resource but the full presentation is available for educators in the UK on the Into Film website.
• Role on the Wall activity sheet
• Timeline activity sheet.