SEAGATE
FOYLE FILM FESTIVAL EDUCATION PROGRAMME
Saturday 20-Saturday 27 November 2004
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Heroes
& Villains
The Foyle Film Festival Education Programme is a special
resource for primary and secondary schools, and higher
education colleges, enabling them to participate in
curriculum focused screenings, workshops, and presentations
by a wide range of highly respected media and film industry
professionals. The education programme is a unique strand
in that it is a separate yet integral element of the
overall festival programme. As the festival is based
within the Nerve Centre, which delivers an educational
programme throughout the year, this adds an element
of quality and continuity to the whole event. The programme
gives schools an opportunity to gain access to a wide
range of special events at little or no cost. In 2003
almost 2,000 pupils attended the various educational
elements of the festival.
Following a summer of major sporting events such as
Euro 2004, and the Olympic Games in Athens, the theme
of this year’s Seagate Foyle Film Festival ‘Heroes
& Villains’ seems very topical. This year’s
education programme will explore this very interesting,
and often controversial, theme with relation to film
screenings, presentations, and workshops, which are
aimed at both primary and secondary level in all subject
areas.
Programme
highlights include the return of Chaille Stovall, a
15 year old American filmmaker who made a major impact
at the festival last year for his work with the boys
from St. Peter’s Secondary School. Reporter and
documentary filmmaker Saira Shah will introduce the
film ‘Death In Gaza’, and conduct a Q&A
after the screening. Director Shivaun O’Casey
will introduce her very personal documentary about her
father ‘Sean O’Casey-Under A Coloured Cap’,
and will answer questions afterwards. Two of the films
screening this year - one for primary and one for secondary
- will also be accompanied by sign language facilitators.
Films screening with a literary emphasis in this year’s
programme include ‘Five Children And It’,
‘Bride And Prejudice’, and ‘Vanity
Fair’. The festival’s Primary Outreach Programme
is now well established, with additional Secondary Outreach
workshops and other events being held this year in the
creative learning centre at Studio On in Belfast. There
really is something here for everyone in this year’s
programme so check it out.
COST:There
is a nominal charge for festival events as follows:
Nerve Centre Cinema screenings £1 per pupil
Strand Multiplex Cinema screenings £2 per pupil
Outreach screenings £1 per pupil
Workshops & Presentations £1 per pupil
Outreach Workshops £2 per pupil
BOOKING
DETAILS:For further details or to make bookings
for the education programme please contact Bernie on
71373456. Booking forms that are provided must be fully
completed and faxed to 71371738, or posted to the Seagate
Foyle Film Festival, the Nerve Centre, 7-8 Magazine
Street, Derry, BT48 6HJ.
SPECIAL
REQUIREMENTS:All events must be paid for a
week in advance of the festival. Events that have been
booked but remain paid, before the start of the festival
education programme, will be cancelled and places reallocated.
Email:bernie@nerve-centre.org.uk
For further information, or to book events at TVYP NI
in Studio ON in Belfast please contact 028 9044 8821.
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