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The Film Education Working Group
The Film Education Working Group was co-ordinated by the British Film Institute (BFI). Its report, "Making Movies Matter" included strategic recommendations on how to broaden the audience for film in the UK. The report calls upon education policy-makers to change their attitudes to the moving image, stressing the need to recognise that critical and creative moving image skills will be a key element of literacy in the 21st Century.
The Group called upon the UK moving image industries to invest in education as a long-term strategy to help to create the knowledgeable, critically aware audiences upon which the value and integrity of their future output depends.
The Group paid particular attention to the needs of younger audiences and learners, to informal and lifelong learning, and to opportunities for practical production, while acknowledging the importance of academic study in formal contexts for older students.
In addition, the report advocated teaching and learning about the cultural and historical value of the moving image as well as about its importance in conveying information and ideologies. It also argues that wider educational access to the moving image requires changes to Copyright Law, improved on-line services, and more resources for the classroom.
The Film Council and the British Film Institute are taking forward the proposals in close consultation with Government.
The membership of the Film Education Working Group was:
- Alan Howden (Chairman) - BFI Governor and BBC Broadcaster
- Ann Barnes - National Association of Teachers of English
- Andrew Bethell - Double Exposure Television
- Lavinia Carey - Director General, British Video Association
- Ian Christie - School of Arts and Images Studies, University of Kent
- Vivienne Clarke - Ravenswood School for Boys, Bromley
- Richard Collins - Head of Education BFI and Senior Lecturer, London School of Economics
- Carol Craggs - Teacher, Stevenson Primary School Nottingham
- Mary Fowler - School Development Officer, Westminster
- Christopher Gordon - Chief Executive, English Regional Arts Boards
- Jenny Grahame - English and Media Centre, London
- Romaine Hart - Managing Director, Mainline Pictures
- Wendy Hewing - Teacher, Islington College
- Ian Kane - Head of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Paul Moore - Omagh College/Northern Ireland Film Commission
- Lynda Myles - Film Producer, Pandora Productions (resigned Nov 1998)
- Kate O'Connor - Skillset
- Vanessa Paynton - Glasgow Film Theatre
- Martin Phillips - English and Media Adviser, Devon
- Patrick Phillips - Film Studies Teacher, Cambridge and Middlesex University
- Philip Schlesinger - Professor of Film, University of Stirling and Chair of Education Advisory Committee, Scottish Screen
- Roy Stafford - Freelance Teacher, Writer and Trainer
- Sian Teifi - Cultural Development Manager, Sgrin, Wales
- Ian Wall - Director, Film Education
- Brian Winston - BFI Governor and Head of School of Communication, Design and Media, University of Westminster
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