guide to the work of BFI Education

1. Welcome to the BFI
Mark Reid
Head of Education
BFI Southbank
11 May 2016
Mark.reid@bfi.org.uk
@BFI @BFIEducation
Bfieducation.wordpress.com

2. AbouttheBFI..
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3. Priority 1: We want to encourage people to build a lifelong
relationship with film, to help build audiences for a broader
range of films across all platforms and to ensure that film
culture can be accessed and enjoyed by everyone across the
whole of the UK

4. Proirity 2: to nurture and invest in a diverse mix of first-class
filmmaking activity across the UK, from emerging to
established filmmakers, that will enrich British film culture,
increase the economic value of UK film and define Britain and
its storytellers in the 21st century.

5. Priority 3: Access to screen heritage is integral to the BFI’s
ambitions to develop British film and talent, and to provide a
programme which attracts new audiences, public and
professional, to a richer experience of film

7. And BFI Education

8. Education at BFI Southbank:
Learning every day of the year

9. 50,000 learners
500 events and learning sessions
Schools and teachers
Local diverse communities
General public and cinephiles
Young people

10. Democracy doesn’t require perfect equality, but it does require
that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of
different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another
in course of everyday life.
Michael Sandel What Money Can’t Buy

11. Innovation:
Developing new ways to engage with and learn about film

12. Leadership:
Shaping agenda through research and advocacy

13. 2014 Education highlight: Sci-fi
Midwich Experiments Film Academy Sci-fi/ Sci-fi Music academy
Familiy Sci-fi Schools Teach First, Into Film. Film Academy online resources
25 Public programme talks and courses

15. ENGAGEMENT
50,000 INTRODUCTORY EXPERIENCES
1,000 SUSTAINED EXPERIENCES
100 COLLABORATORS

16. COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMMING
• Future Film: 40 young
people as ‘peer
programmers’
• African Caribbean
consultative group
• Cultural Campus
• Schools and HE
collaborators
• Seniors’ programming

17. Education and audiences – annual investment of £44.2m
British film and filmmaking - investment of £32.3m pa
Film heritage investment - £9.9m per year