Film School in a Box (2013) Online

Film School in a Box (2013) Online

A programme produced for the Community Channel by The Independent Film Trust (IFT), the UK charity which exists to advance the cause of independent film-making. The programme, first broadcast in September 2013, explains the background to the IFT's Film School in a Box (FSIB) initiative to provide basic film training to disadvantaged people. It examines the first six courses that the IFT has run under this scheme with six different partners: 1) Portugal Prints, part of the mental-health charity Westminster Mind in Central London, which deals with adults recovering from mental-health problems; 2) Wandsworth City Learning Centre in South-West London, which brought together a group of participants aged 10 to 15 from four different schools; 3) Stoke Newington School in Hackney in North London, with a group aged 15 and 16; 4) The Hampton Project, an educational charity based in South London, which works with young people who have been excluded from mainstream education because they have ...