Into Film: Outreach Programme

Overview

Organisations can apply for grants of up to £10,000 to create a project that must result in the making of two short films of up to five minutes in duration each.

In addition, the projects must involve substantial film watching and understanding activity, such as a one-day festival, regular screenings and discussions and filmmaking masterclasses. A minimum of 20 young people between the ages 14-19 who are not in formal education must also be engaged by the project.

Finally, each successful project must set up at Film Club via Into Film. This will help source film content and resources for the watching and learning elements, and help inspire and motivate the young people involved.

What the Into Film Outreach programme will fund:

• Projects which provide filmmaking training, plus elements of watching and understanding film for at least 20 disadvantaged young people NEET aged 14-19 years;
• Projects that match disadvantaged young people who are NOT in formal education with professional filmmakers with an extensive track record of working in film with disadvantaged young people;
• Projects that recognise film is a powerful tool for engaging disadvantaged young people and empower those young people to lead in all areas of the process and give them a voice;
• Projects that include substantial complementary watching and understanding activity such as a mini festival, screenings and master classes;
• Projects that start after 13 June 2014 and end by 25 January 2015;
• Projects that result in the making of two short films that are up to 5 minutes duration each;
• UK companies (Constituted Organisations with registered office in the UK, this includes limited companies, local authorities, schools and charities) delivering projects in UK only

Each project should include the following elements:

• Projects should include the set up a film club as a condition of the grant at the outset of the project (visit http://www.intofilm.org/schools-film-clubs and click on ‘Join for Free Now’ to register or for further information);
• In order to set up a film club and screen films, projects will need to build the cost of a ‘Public Video Screening Licence’ into the budget (unless the club will be held in an English state school in which case the school does not need a licence under new arrangements with the Department for Education). Full information can be found on the Filmbank website http://www.filmbank.co.uk/licences/public_video_screening.asp
• Projects must include sessions of watching and understanding film, this should include the watching and reviewing of at least 2 feature films and 2 short (non-mainstream/specialised cinema films) with the whole group of young people, this activity should be evidenced e.g. via a film review (written or filmed). This activity will be supported through membership of the Into Film club network. Projects should also include substantial complementary watching and understanding activity such as a mini festival, screenings and master classes;
• The production of two short films of no longer than 5 minutes in duration. We are looking for a range of work to include: fiction, live action, drama, drama/documentary, experimental and animation and any theme. We require the young people to be as involved as possible in every aspect of the project and would therefore require the film ideas to be young people led;
• Copies of storyboards, scripts, video diaries, blogs etc should be supplied when the project is delivered so that case studies of projects can be created (budget can be allocated to gathering this material);
• Projects will require an evaluation element (budget can be allocated to this element of the project).