Film Education: A User's Guide

Learn how to design and start your own film education programme

The BFI is a world leader in film education. On this course, you’ll discover why film education matters and learn how agencies across Europe have successfully advocated for film education.

From experienced and knowledgeable practitioners from the UK, Germany, Denmark, France, Spain, Slovenia, Italy, Greece and more, you’ll discover how to design, organise, and manage film education programmes for your learners or community.

You’ll learn from people working in prestigious film archives and festivals, those training teachers, and those running school-cinema programmes and film education NGOs.

This course is designed for educators working in the film or media education who are looking to broaden their knowledge and expertise, try out new ideas, and learn about great practice.

This course is also designed for policymakers, cinema and festival workers, archive educators, strategic bodies and agents who are looking for good practice and good examples of international film education.

This course is co-funded by the Creative European MEDIA Programme of the European Union.

• Film education - meanings and approaches
• Introducing film education
• Defining Film Education
• Choosing, watching, talking about film
• Conclusions
• Critical approaches to film education
• Week 2: Introducing the Critical
• Getting critical
• Analysis through production
• Presentation and evaluation
• End of Week 2
• Creative approaches to film education
• Welcome to Week 3
• Film-making and film education
• Film education in pre-school
• The Critical and the Creative
• Film Education - a wider view
• Welcome to Week 4
• Bringing film into School
• Cinemas, Archives, and Festivals
• National Strategies, Structures, and Models
• Impact - and how we measure it
• Summing up