Education
We support a broad policy on film education to complement our central priority of creating and maintaining a dynamic film culture across Wales. We aim to enhance film literacy for all and stimulate an appetite for specialised, cultural and non-mainstream films.
As with all our work, we welcome informal discussion as well as formal applications. We are here to help, and we encourage individuals to discuss proposals prior to formal submission, should they wish. Our strategy and funding encompasses formal and informal education (i.e. curriculum and non-curriculum), across all ages and sections of the community, and incorporating a range of delivery venues and methods, including via exhibitors, schools, at special events or within communities, as well as potentially via online, DVD and CD-ROM.
To make a formal application for financial support, please download our Guidelines and Application forms. Alternatively, you can request a hard copy.
For further information or to initiate discussions, please contact:
Dan Thomas
Audience Development Manager
Direct Dial: 029 2046 7488
daniel@filmagencywales.com
In the light of proposed, but as yet unconfirmed, central funding cuts for exhibition and education, the Film Agency’s Board have made the following funding changes for 2010-11.
Funding Changes:
The total Film Education Fund will be reduced by £6,518 to £58,482. There will be a cap of £12,000 per project from April 2010;
The Events Fund will be discontinued from April 2010;
The balance of the anticipated cut, totaling £15,482, will be applied to exhibition funding. This cut will include discontinuing the funding of festivals that are principally geared at academia. However, the Board has postponed determining the further application of this cut (in relation to Core Funded venues and/or Film Festivals) until their next meeting, in June, when they will comprehensively review:
- final year-end figures from all venues and assess the impact of changes to core funding arrangements made last year; and
- festival activity with the benefit of year-end client reports, and in the context of broader changes in the economic climate.
The Film Agency continues to work robustly with Welsh Assembly Government and the Arts Council of Wales to overturn the proposed cuts, and the Board will revisit these Funding Changes if the cuts are not implemented.
If you have any queries, please contact Dan Thomas on daniel@filmagencywales.com or call 029 2046 7488.
