Teacher Date For Your Diary
posted 12 June 08
18th September: Programme Launch of The Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film & Television Festival for Young People.
23rd September: Education Programme Launch of The Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film & Television Festival for Young People.
MORE DETAILS COMING SOON
Free Film Screenings for Schools
posted 13 May 08
QFT, in association with Cinemagic, is delighted to announce a new Free Film Screenings for Schools initiative for 2008, kindly supported by Northern Ireland Screen and Film Education. There will be a total of six free film screenings, which will form part of Film Education’s Sunscreens initiative.
The titles of all of the films in the initiative have been carefully selected by QFT Education to ensure that they support the national curriculum. They are also on Watch This, the list of top 50 list of titles recommended by the British Film Institute as essential viewing for young people aged up to 14 years.
The films included in the initiative will have accompanying teaching resources, some of which will be downloadable from www.filmeducation.org . A further five free screenings for schools are planned during the next academic year 2008-09, some of which will be shown during National Schools Film Week in October.
The first film to be shown at QFT on Thursday 12th June at 10.15am will be Spirited Away (PG), which is aimed at P6 and P7 pupils. The event includes a short introduction, and with the film’s running time at 125 minutes, will be finished at 12.30pm. QFT is located in the Drama and Film Centre at Queen’s University in 20 University Square, and parking can be arranged in the Queen’s Sport car park.
Spirited Away is an Oscar-winning animation by acclaimed Japanese film director Hayao Miyazaki. The film is about a young girl called Chihiro and her parents who stumble upon an abandoned 'amusement park' that turns out to be a mysterious bathhouse for the spirit world (a la 'Carnival of Souls'). After her parents are turned into pigs, the young girl must infiltrate the bathhouse to find a way to make them human again. Chihiro encounters an amazing array of strange and exotic creatures, some of whom help her on her quest.
This film supports KS2, subject area: Art & Design, Music, English and Citizenship. Activities in the teaching pack include Reading Media, Using Media, Awareness of Genre, People and Needs in Society and the Human Environment.
For further information about this and other QFT Education and Outreach events, please contact Marion Campbell – email m.campbell@qub.ac.uk - or go to the education and outreach section of the QFT website - www.queensfilmtheatre.com/EducationOutreach/
All bookings for Spirited Away are being co-ordinated by Film Education in London. To book a group to attend Spirited Away, teachers should contact Film Education directly, either by telephone on 020 7851 9464 or online in the events section of www.filmeducation.org .
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For further information, please contact Sarah Hughes, Press and Marketing Officer, Queen’s Film Theatre on tel. 90971398, email s.hughes@qub.ac.uk
After School Film Club
posted March 08
Cinemagic would like to offer you the opportunity to set up and run an After School Film Club in your school for FREE!
Having received funding from Northern Ireland Screen and the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure Cinemagic is able to offer the support necessary to run a weekly or fortnightly After School Film Club. You will be able to choose and order films directly.
During the Film Club students will watch a film followed by a short discussion. Cinemagic can help you with this discussion material. The Film Club project will run from April 2008 – March 2009.
In order to set up a Film Club in your school a teacher must be prepared to organize and run the club. Initial training, ongoing support and advice will be provided throughout the project by Cinemagic. Your school will also need to have a space where the film club can meet which has a digital projector, DVD player, speakers and a screen or blank white wall.
A similar project is running in England and for further information go to www.filmclub.org
*This will be offered only to schools that have received Extended School Day funding.
We are particularly keen to hear from post-primary, controlled, maintained and integrated schools.
Contact Laura Carlisle at Cinemagic for further information, Tel 028 90 311 900
CINEMAGIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME
Cinemagic programmes and delivers an extensive range of films from around the world, workshops, masterclasses and discussions throughout the year and during the film festival in November and December for young people aged 4-25. Education activities are focused on the different curriculum levels for nursery, primary and post-primary schools and colleges.
A touring programme visits schools across the province during the festival and workshops are hosted by top industry professionals who illustrate various techniques in a range of cinematic disciplines and offer fun and learning in the classroom!
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| Pupils from Orangefield High School, Belfast, along with wartime evacuee, Jim Delaney, who took part in a post-film discussion, with "The Evacuees" director, Brian Henry-Martin | Pupils from St Brides Primary School, Belfast, with Pingu Animator and Director, Jud Walton, during the 2006 animation workshops for primary schools, which took place all over Northern Ireland. |
One and two day workshops are available during the festival period in Belfast offering hands on experience in scriptwriting, directing, acting, documentary film making, and discussions on topics such as film funding, journalism and post screening talks on various foreign language films. Representatives from production companies, scriptwriting professionals and film experts host the workshops and share top tips with the young people involved.
Cinemagic provides educational resource packs and workshops that accompany what is being taught in the classroom- from literacy, citizenship, history, foreign language, to media, ICT and film studies.
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| Dutch family film "Bonkers" screened at the 2006 film festival | "The Evacuees" Second World War documentary, screened at the 2006 film education programme for secondary schools |
Cinemagic acts as a facilitator for projects including Creative Youth Partnerships and YESIP where young people have the opportunity to re-enact or re-write a scene from a film and adopt the roles of producer, director, actor and scriptwriter to create their own adaptation of their favourite films!
