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Welcome to the BFI
Mark ReidHead of EducationBFI Southbank
11 May 2016
@BFI @BFIEducation
Bfieducation.wordpress.com
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About the BFI..
archive and library
cinematheque
festivals
film production and distribution
publishing
BFI Southbank: some rough figures
Visitors: around 900,000
Cinema ticket sales: 220,000
Unique ticket buyers: around 70,000
BFI2022SUPPORTING UK FILM
• Work across different platforms and lengths to encourage creative filmmaking
• By 2022, devolve 25 per cent of all BFI production funding to decision-makers based outside London
• Launch a new model for fast funding to fully finance low-budget and debut films,
• Create a clearer progression path for ambitious emerging filmmakers, including regional BFI NETWORK staff based in key cultural venues in England
• Pilot a £10 million Enterprise Fund providing repayable working capital for innovative projects
FUTURE TALENT
FUTURE LEARNING AND SKILLS
• New ten-year skills strategy with Creative Skillset…
• …creating new opportunities for thousands of individuals from all backgrounds from across the UK
• Develop a well-evidenced manifesto for film in the classroom, in partnership with Into Film, demonstrating the educational and cultural importance of the art of film and its role in inspiring the next generation of a creative workforce
• Ensure that the BFI’s board and senior decision-making teams are representative of the UK population
• Focus on 16-30 year olds’ engagement with British independent and specialised film
• Major initiative to preserve and digitise 100,000 at-risk British TV programmes
• Major cultural programmes including:
A year-long focus on India Year-round programming
celebrating the representation of women, • New 35mm film prints of 100 of
the great classics of British and international cinema
• Launch the largest public searchable, interactive database dedicated to British feature films.
FUTURE AUDIENCES
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
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Thank you!
