Film and Media Education
BBC Learning - www.bbc.co.uk/learning
BFI www.bfi.org.uk/education-research
The English Youth Arts Network -
www.enyan.co.uk
European Charter for Media Literacy -www.euromedialiteracy.eu
Filmclub - www.filmclub.org
The UK Film Council - www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk
Film Education - www.filmeducation.org
Film Street - www.filmstreet.co.uk
Leeds Young People's Film Festival - www.leedsyoungfilm.co.uk
MediaEd - www.mediaed.org.uk
Media Education Association - www.mediaedassociation.org.uk
National Media Museum - www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Learning
Skillset - www.skillset.org
Showroom Cinema www.showroom.org.uk/cinema/education
Showcomotion - www.showcomotion.org.uk and www.showcomotionconference.com
Yorkshire Film Archive www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com
Other sources of funding for film and media education projects:
First Light - www.firstlightonline.co.uk
Arts Council funding - www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/index.php
The Princes Trust - www.princes-trust.org.uk
Big Lottery Fund - www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Heritage Lottery - www.hlf.org.uk
Yorkshire Film Archivenow online!
The fully interactive website features rare footage of Queen Victoria visiting Sheffield in 1897, the pioneering filmmakers of Bamforth and Company, our region's industrial powers of steel, textiles, farming and fishing, a royal visit from Charles and Diana to Leeds in 1982, home movies to the Yorkshire coast, wartime footage, the opening of the North York Moors Railway in 1973 (pictured) and more recent films including the Castleford Tigers Wembley dream from 1999.
YFA online is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, with the continued support of Yorkshire Forward and Screen Yorkshire, who have been central in developing and highlighting innovative ways of using archive footage for audiences across the region.
