FEATURE FOCUS: CULTURAL EDUCATION
From director Q&As with Edgar Wright and Kenneth Branagh to Colombian band performances - highlights from the 2021 Into Film Festival
reason, but this year still saw 185,000 attendees return to enjoy the big-screen experience, across 2,500 screenings and in 500 cinemas. The Into Film Festival is a free, annual,
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n our final piece on cultural education this month, we hear from film education charity
Into Film, whose eighth Into Film Festival has officially wrapped after running from 10th – 26th November in cinema venues across the UK. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the charity only held a select few ‘Into Film Festival Presents' screenings in 2020 ,and 2021 saw a slightly reduced programme for the same
nationwide celebration of film & education for 5- 19 year olds, which helps educators bring learning to life for their students by inspiring them to watch, understand and make film in new and creative ways. This year, the programme offered over 60 film titles, all accompanied by film guides and resources, which mapped to the curriculum. The accompanying festival strands were ‘Exploring History’, ‘Finding Your Voice’, ‘Fantasy & Adventure’, ‘Health & Wellbeing’ and ‘Community & Togetherness’ and titles were specifically selected to appeal to teachers of all age groups across the UK. More specifically, this year’s programme
featured a number of special events and previews with film industry guests (which are discussed in more detail below), individual pupil premieres of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers) and Dear Future Children, and regular screenings of primary and secondary titles such as My Neighbour Totoro, Raya and the Last Dragon, I Am Greta, 1917, Rocks and Sound of Metal.
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www.education-today.co.uk The Festival got underway in London's Leicester
Square, with a special preview of Clifford the Big Red Dog, ahead of the film's theatrical release on 10 December. With World Kindness Day taking place on Saturday 13 November, a story that sees Clifford teaching the world to be kind and love big was as timely as could be. Sandra Smith, a teacher at Saint Thomas à
Becket Catholic Primary School in Abbey Wood, London, spoke about being one of the lucky schools to attend the preview screening. "It's a brilliant opportunity for us. We're an inner- London school and we use Into Film all the time for our whole school. This is just magical to be up town at Leicester Square for a preview performance of what looks like it's going to be a fantastic film." Elsewhere, director Sir Kenneth Branagh
officially opened Northern Ireland's Into Film Festival at a screening of his new autobiographical film Belfast. Academy Award nominee Sir Kenneth, who is Northern Ireland Ambassador for Into Film, was joined by young actors Jude Hill and Lewis McAskie at Movie House Cityside in Belfast, where they encouraged young people to tell their own stories. Next up was a tenth anniversary screening of
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