bfi education - what we do

Welcome to the BFI

Mark ReidHead of EducationBFI Southbank

11 May 2016

Mark.reid@bfi.org.uk

@BFI @BFIEducation

Bfieducation.wordpress.com

About the BFI..

archive and library

cinematheque

festivals

film production and distribution

publishing

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

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.

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

BFI Southbank: some rough figures

Visitors: around 900,000

Cinema ticket sales: 220,000

Unique ticket buyers: around 70,000

And BFI Education

Education at BFI Southbank: Learning every day of the year

50,000 learners

500 events and learning sessions

Schools and teachers

Local diverse communities

General public and cinephiles

Young people

Diversity:Events for audiences marginal to mainstream film culture

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

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

Leadership: Shaping agenda through research and advocacy

2014 Education highlight: Sci-fi

Midwich Experiments Film Academy Sci-fi/ Sci-fi Music academyFamiliy Sci-fi Schools Teach First, Into Film. Film Academy online resources 25 Public programme talks and courses

ENGAGEMENT

50,000 INTRODUCTORY EXPERIENCES

1,000 SUSTAINED EXPERIENCES

100 COLLABORATORS

COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMMING

• Future Film: 40 young people as ‘peer programmers’

• African Caribbean consultative group

• Cultural Campus• Schools and HE

collaborators• Seniors’ programming

Education and audiences – annual investment of £44.2mBritish film and filmmaking - investment of £32.3m paFilm heritage investment - £9.9m per year