presentation for sheffield school of management

Welcome to the BFI

Mark ReidHead of EducationBFI Southbank

11 May 2016

Mark.reid@bfi.org.uk

@BFI @BFIEducation

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About the BFI..

archive and library

cinematheque

festivals

film production and distribution

publishing

BFI Southbank: some rough figures

Visitors: around 900,000

Cinema ticket sales: 220,000

Unique ticket buyers: around 70,000

BFI2022SUPPORTING UK FILM

• Work across different platforms and lengths to encourage creative filmmaking

• By 2022, devolve 25 per cent of all BFI production funding to decision-makers based outside London

• Launch a new model for fast funding to fully finance low-budget and debut films,

• Create a clearer progression path for ambitious emerging filmmakers, including regional BFI NETWORK staff based in key cultural venues in England

• Pilot a £10 million Enterprise Fund providing repayable working capital for innovative projects

FUTURE TALENT

FUTURE LEARNING AND SKILLS

• New ten-year skills strategy with Creative Skillset…

• …creating new opportunities for thousands of individuals from all backgrounds from across the UK

• Develop a well-evidenced manifesto for film in the classroom, in partnership with Into Film, demonstrating the educational and cultural importance of the art of film and its role in inspiring the next generation of a creative workforce

• Ensure that the BFI’s board and senior decision-making teams are representative of the UK population

• Focus on 16-30 year olds’ engagement with British independent and specialised film

• Major initiative to preserve and digitise 100,000 at-risk British TV programmes

• Major cultural programmes including:

A year-long focus on India Year-round programming

celebrating the representation of women, • New 35mm film prints of 100 of

the great classics of British and international cinema

• Launch the largest public searchable, interactive database dedicated to British feature films.

FUTURE AUDIENCES

And BFI Education

Education at BFI Southbank: Learning every day of the year

50,000 learners

500 events and learning sessions

Schools and teachers

Local diverse communities

General public and cinephiles

Young people

Diversity:Events for audiences marginal to mainstream film culture

Democracy doesn’t require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another in course of everyday life.

Michael Sandel What Money Can’t Buy

Innovation:Developing new ways to engage with and learn about film

Leadership: Shaping agenda through research and advocacy

2014 Education highlight: Sci-fi

Midwich Experiments Film Academy Sci-fi/ Sci-fi Music academyFamiliy Sci-fi Schools Teach First, Into Film. Film Academy online resources 25 Public programme talks and courses

ENGAGEMENT

50,000 INTRODUCTORY EXPERIENCES

1,000 SUSTAINED EXPERIENCES

100 COLLABORATORS

COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMMING

• Future Film: 40 young people as ‘peer programmers’

• African Caribbean consultative group

• Cultural Campus• Schools and HE

collaborators• Seniors’ programming

Education and audiences – annual investment of £44.2mBritish film and filmmaking - investment of £32.3m paFilm heritage investment - £9.9m per year

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Thank you!