Film Education: A User's Guide

Discover why film education matters and learn how agencies across Europe have successfully advocated for film education.

Film Education: A User's Guide

Learn how to design and start your own film education programme

Film Education: A User’s guide will help you discover amongst other things, why film education matters, different approaches to film education 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.

The main aspects will cover:

Rationales
Rationales

Film education - why it matters

Practices
Practices

Watching and choosing, analysing and making film

Case study
Case study

On film education with pre-schoolers

Film resource
Film resource

Practice in cinemas, festivals and archives

Strategies
Strategies

National framework and why they work

Evaluate
Evaluate

Measuring the impact of film education

Who is the course for?

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.

Topics include:

  • WHAT do we mean by the terms film and film education?
  • WHY should we teach about film?
  • WHAT are the key objectives of film education and HOW do we deliver them?
  • HOW do we link critical and creative work, and WHICH methods work?
  • WHERE is film education delivered?
  • HOW do we evaluate and assess the impact of film education?

We encourage you to explore this website and hope that you and your fellow teachers will engage in lively debates and discussions. We also hope you will be inspired to question and develop your own ideas on film education.

Introduction Video

Watch a brief video explaining this resource and its objectives.

Who developed this course

BFI
vision kino
cine matheque
karpos
creative europe