About Into Film
Find out all about Into Film, the UK's leading charity for film in education.
Team Structure and Core Activity
Into Film is the UK's leading charity for film in education and the community. We provide screen industry careers information and advice, support young filmmakers, and bring the power of moving image storytelling into classroom teaching.
Our England team, based in Salford, Bristol, Birmingham and London, delivers tailored workshops and resources across England supporting the needs of the curriculum by linking to the eight Gatsby Benchmarks for screen careers, providing quality resources linking to PSHE modules on resilience, and highlighting the value of film education. By watching our rich catalogue of films via Into Film+ or engaging in our events or competitions such as Film of the Month, our work gives schools evidence of SMSC activity and provides them with cultural capital.
We work collaboratively with a range of partners across England to enhance the reach of our offer including The Careers and Enterprise Company Careers Hubs, Local Cultural Education Partnerships, charities, cinemas, film industry partners, universities, and Multi-Academy Trusts. We are an Artsmark Partner and Arts Award supporter.
A quarter of all UK state schools have streamed content using Into Film+. In England, you will find schools across 158 Local Authorities engaging with our programme; from Redcar & Cleveland to Plymouth, North Lincolnshire to North Somerset and everywhere in between.
Recent Activity
Read all about our latest activity across England.
Upcoming Events
We host and deliver a variety of events both online and in person, designed to inspire and support those working with young people, as well as special events created specifically for young people themselves. Browse our upcoming events below and sign up to take part.
Into Film Festival
The Into Film Festival is the largest free, annual, UK-wide celebration of film, providing memorable cinema experiences for children and young people aged 5-19.
The Into Film Festival 2025 saw over 3,000 screenings and events take place across 580 cinemas around the UK, reaching almost 400,000 young people and their educators.
If you missed out on the 2025 Into Film Festival in November, don't worry, we'll be back with more exciting free screenings in early 2026. Keep your eyes peeled for future announcements!
Educator Training & CPD
Our core engaging training sessions are free and designed for educators working with young people aged 5-19. We offer face-to-face sessions, webinars and online courses that focus on enhancing curricular attainment through film and filmmaking and support screen careers information. We regularly deliver training across the UK, and work directly with schools to provide inspirational training to enrich your lessons. We also offer low-cost bespoke training sessions to suit your needs.
Teaching Resources
Into Film supports teachers to use film and the moving image across the curriculum to drive positive learning outcomes for pupils. Our offer includes Into Film+, the UK's only film streaming service designed specifically for all school settings, and a bespoke online learning platform for teachers. Our comprehensive offer for schools includes the Teaching with Film programme, supported by the BFI awarding National Lottery good cause funding, which provides a range of classroom resources and training to educators teaching across the curriculum, including Film and Media Studies.
Into Film+ The streaming service for schools
Into Film+ is the first free* streaming platform dedicated to film and designed for all school settings. Into Film+ highlights enables teachers to save useful scenes or short segments of a film to play back in the classroom in support of teaching.
Filmmaking
At Into Film, we believe that every child should be given the chance to learn hands-on filmmaking skills and to be able to tell their own stories in film. We provide filmmaking training and resources for teachers, youth leaders and young people. Between our ongoing Film of the Month competition and the Into Film Awards, we've highlighted numerous films made by young people in over the years.
Film of the Month
At Into Film, we're always looking to celebrate the astounding breadth of young filmmaking talent across the UK. Our Film of the Month competition looks for imaginative and original films made by young people, giving them a platform and bringing them to wider audiences.
Recent winners in England:
Voices that Shape Into Film
Advisory Councils
We actively engage with our key stakeholders to shape and inform our programme, ensuring it delivers maximum impact for young people. Guided by the insights of our Youth Advisory Council, the expertise of our education ambassadors, and the passion of our talent ambassadors from across the film industry, we continue to inspire, empower, and create meaningful opportunities for young people through the power of film.
Join our Youth Advisory Council
Partnerships
We value working collaboratively with national and regional partners who support young people and their educational and creative development.
We work closely with a number of organisations including The Bottle Yard Studios, Bristol, The Royal Opera House Bridge, Inspiring Futures: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Cultural Education Partnership, Artswork, Real Ideas Organisation, A New Direction, Arts Connect, Curious Minds, IVE, Culture Bridge North East, Futures Teaching Alliance, Pinc College and Warrington Youth Zone.
In partnership with the BFI Film Audience Network partners Film Hub North at Home and Showroom, Film Hub Midlands at Broadway and via Flatpack, Film Hub South East at the Independent Cinema Office, Film Hub South West at The Watershed and Film Hub London at Film London, we work to support and build young audiences through their love of film in cinemas.
We'd love to hear from you, please drop us a line at england@intofilm.org to ask about our work or to tell us about the exciting ways you are using film in education.
