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Find out more about our schools screening programme below.
We are excited to be developing our wider community learning and engagement programme, providing opportunities for everyone to enjoy learning about film.
If you have any questions or would like to have a conversation about our schools screening programme, or any wider community engagement work, please contact Filmhouse’s Learning and Engagement Officer at learning@filmhouse.org.uk.
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How to book (unless stated otherwise)
All screenings cost £5 per pupil, with teachers/school staff free.
Please ensure you have 1 staff member for every 10 pupils.
To book a schools film screening, please email the following information to schools@filmhouse.org.uk
· Date, time, and title of screening
· Name of school
· Name of lead teacher and mobile number
· Number of pupils
· Number of staff members
· Any access requirements
· Preferred payment method – invoice, by telephone, or by card on arrival
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Upcoming School Screenings / The Oil Machine
Tuesday 9th June • 10.30am • 81 mins • PG • £5 per pupil
Join us to celebrate World Ocean Day with a screening of Scottish documentary The Oil Machine. The film will be accompanied by educational resources for follow-up lessons and discussions at school.
The Oil Machine explores our relationship with oil by looking at the conflicting imperatives around North Sea oil. This invisible machine at the core of our economy and society now faces an uncertain future as activists and investors demand change. Is this the end of oil?
By highlighting the complexities of how oil is embedded in our society – from high finance to cheap consumer goods – The Oil Machine brings together a wide range of voices from young activists, oil company executives, economists to pension fund managers and considers how this machine can be tamed, dismantled, or repurposed.
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Subjects: Science, Geography, Global Citizenship. PSE, History, Media Studies, Film and Screen Education
Themes: climate change, activism, oil industry, North Sea, environment, ocean, pollution
Curriculum for Excellence: LIT -01a, LIT -04a, LIT -07a, LIT -08a, LIT -11a, LIT -16a, LIT -18a, EXA -07a, HWB -12a, RME -08a, RME -09b, RME -09c, SCN -04b, SCN -05b, SCN -17a, SCN -20a, SOC -05a, SOC -05b, SOC -08a, SOC -08b, SOC -12b, SOC -15a
Sustainable Development Goals: 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
UNCRC Articles: 13, 15, 17, 24
Content notes: Contains references to concerns and fears surrounding climate change, and infrequent very mild bad language. For full information on the age rating and guidance, please see the BBFC website.
Into Film Spring
Into Film
Into Film is the UK's leading charity for film in education and the community, providing screen industry careers information and advice, supporting young filmmakers, and bringing the power of moving image storytelling into classroom teaching. The Into Film Scotland team champions their programme across the nation, ensuring it aligns with the unique needs of Scotland's education and youth sectors.
Into Film actively support the Curriculum for Excellence, empowering teachers and youth workers to inspire learning with film. By collaborating with local stakeholders, Into Film help inspire and engage young people across Scotland through innovative programmes and creative opportunities whilst exploring their ambitions and building essential skills for the future.
Please see below for the Spring Into Film events taking place at Filmhouse, with links to film and booking information included.
Tuesday 17th March, 10.30am
Wednesday 19th March, 10.30am
Thursday 19th March, 10.30am
Wednesday 25th March, 10.30am
Universities
Universities Documentaries Screening
Scottish Documentary Institute and Filmhouse are pleased to invite university groups to a special screening of Bridging the Gap short documentaries on Thursday 26th March at 11am. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Miranda Stern and the SDI team.
To book, please email schools@filmhouse.org.uk with the following information:
Short film programme:
The Bayview (Daniel Cook, 19 min, 2021) (pictured below)
On the North East Coast of Scotland, an extraordinary family have turned the previously derelict Bayview hotel into a place of respite for international fishermen when they come to land. This film is a glimpse into this unlikely home and the transient guests who pass through it.
Prosopagnosia (Steven Fraser, 10 min, 2021)
Prosopagnosia means face-blindness and to understand this neurodiverse behaviour, the contents of a memory box are intricately explored. Sketchbooks, photographs and diaries unravel to tell a unique and personal story.
Content notes: nudity (animation)
Clean (Miranda Stern, 18 min, 2022) (pictured above)
One woman’s love letter and final goodbye to heroin, as she attempts to come off the synthetic opiates that have kept her clean for the past six years. This short documentary attempts to reframe some of the stigmas of addiction, and poses the following question, what does it mean to be ‘clean’?
Content notes: mention of drug use
Friends on the Outside (Annabel Moodie, 10 min, 2023)
The story of an incarcerated man called Jamie who finds joy and comfort inside by foraging for weeds and caring for birds.
Content notes: swearing
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (Theo Panagopoulos, 17 min, 2024)
When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender film essay questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and the land.
Post-screening discussion
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the Scottish Documentary Institute team and Miranda Stern, the director of Clean and an alumna of SDI’s Bridging the Gap and New Voices programmes.
There will be an opportunity to hear more about SDI’s opportunities for documentary makers or audiences, as well as to hear about a filmmaker’s journey, building a career around short film, working across documentary and fiction, and between Scotland and London.
Miranda is a Glasgow based writer / director who enjoys using documentary processes in fiction, and is currently exploring fictional identities in documentary. She is a BAFTA-nominated director, who loves to explore the threshold between different genres and textures with a kind of scrapbook cinema. Her work has been recognised by three Royal Television Society student awards, a National Film award, the ‘best Scottish short’ award at GSFF, a BAFTA and BAFTA-Scotland nomination, three Grierson nominations and two IDA nominations. Screen Daily recently described her as one of ‘15 emerging UK writers and directors with global appeal’. Her films have screened at IDFA, Clermont-Ferrand, Palm Springs, EIFF, GSFF, Aesthetica, Visions du Reel, Tirana, Encounters, and others.
Scottish Documentary Institute is a charity based in Edinburgh, founded in 2004. We are passionate about independent documentary, discovering new voices and supporting them to create meaningful work and build sustainable careers in the industry. One of our flagship programmes, Bridging the Gap, is dedicated to new and emerging talent based in Scotland and Northern Ireland with an idea for a short documentary. The programme offers development training, a cash budget, and a year of distribution at international festivals. Bridging the Gap embraces the power and creativity of the short form, a vital platform for filmmakers to express their vision and to hone in their craft.
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