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The screenings programme

Films that changed something, taken apart afterwards. And work made by the women who trained here, shown to an audience in the seats.

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Social impact film studies

Watch a film that moved something in the world, then work out how.

A film is not an intervention. What happens in the room afterwards is.

So the session is built around the taking apart. A campaign film, a documentary or a drama, then the questions that matter: who was it for, what did it ask of them, where did it land, and where did the makers get it wrong.

It is a craft class and an argument at once. You leave knowing how the thing was built.

A practitioner talks a group through a built camera in a school classroom: two women in hijabs at frame left, a teacher with short red hair holding her glasses in the middle, a whiteboard and a display screen behind.
A session run in a school.

Work made here, shown to an audience

A screening with people in the seats is a different thing from a link sent to a tutor.

The other half of the programme is our own. Films made by women in the programmes get a night in the screening room, and the makers stay for the questions.

Opening. The first run as the first cohorts finish, and dates go out as each one opens.

How a session is put together

Agreed with you in writing before anyone sits down.

  • The film is agreed with you, and you tell us what would be wrong to show your room.
  • Nobody is asked to answer for a whole community, and whoever holds the room interrupts any question that does.
  • Women-only sessions run on request, with a woman holding the room and a woman on the technical side.
  • Written questions are taken as well as spoken ones.
  • Screenings for young people are agreed with your designated safeguarding lead.