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Into Film puts film at the heart of the educational and personal development of children and young people across the UK. Our Into Film Recommends podcasts highlight great films to show and discuss with young people. Our Filmmaker Interviews feature talent in front of and behind the camera talking about how they started working in film.

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    • TV & Film
    • 4.0 • 5 Ratings

Into Film puts film at the heart of the educational and personal development of children and young people across the UK. Our Into Film Recommends podcasts highlight great films to show and discuss with young people. Our Filmmaker Interviews feature talent in front of and behind the camera talking about how they started working in film.

    What Is A Classic Film?

    What Is A Classic Film?

    Alison Gardner, Rebecca Harrison and Nick Varley discuss what makes a classic film.

    • 50 min
    A Wrinkle In Time (Primary)

    A Wrinkle In Time (Primary)

    In the primary episode of this months podcast we explore the themes of family, on screen representation, and anti bullying in the extremely popular children's film A Wrinkle in Time. The film tells the story of Meg Murry, a high-school-aged girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces that hold him prisoner on another planet. .

    A Wrinkle in Time
    https://www.intofilm.org/films/19189

    'A Wrinle in time' and Ten Films Celebrating Sibling Adventures
    https://www.intofilm.org/news-and-views/articles/a-wrinkle-in-time-sibling-adventures

    • 13 min
    Love, Simon / The Rape of Recy Taylor (Secondary)

    Love, Simon / The Rape of Recy Taylor (Secondary)

    In the first segment of this episode we discuss how Love, Simon is a game changer for gay representation in teenage cinema, with it being the first film from a major studio to address the subject.

    In the second segment we explore the historical and cultural significance of The Rape of Recy Taylor, a documentary which investigates the rape of Recy Taylor by six white men in Alabama during 1944.

    Love, Simon
    https://www.intofilm.org/films/19198

    Love Simon : A Game Changer for Gay representation in Teen Cinema
    https://www.intofilm.org/news-and-views/articles/love-simon-feature

    The Rape of Recy Taylor
    https://www.intofilm.org/films/19231

    The Rape of Recy Taylor: Film Guide
    https://www.intofilm.org/resources/1427

    • 23 min
    In Conversation with The Little Stranger director Lenny Abrahamson and actor Domhnall Gleeson

    In Conversation with The Little Stranger director Lenny Abrahamson and actor Domhnall Gleeson

    Into Film interviewed both director Lenny Abrahamson and actor Domhnall Gleeson for a podcast in advance of The Little Stranger’s theatrical release (21 September). We asked them a wide variety of questions about their approach to the film, its characters, and its themes, designed specifically to support English Literature teachers using The Little Stranger in the classroom.

    https://www.intofilm.org/news-and-views/articles/the-little-stranger-podcast

    Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPDA7Z1c-Eg

    Intro 00:00 - 00:43
    Adaptation 00:43 - 2:57
    Character 02:59 - 09:01
    Setting 09:02 - 13:30
    Themes 13:31 - 20:33

    • 20 min
    Radio 4, The Film Programme - Beeban Kidron

    Radio 4, The Film Programme - Beeban Kidron

    BBC Radio 4, The Film Programme - Into Film co-founder Beeban Kidron talks to fellow director Hope Dickson Leach about empowering women in the film industry, with particular focus on female directors. This interview is part of the programme's ongoing strand, 'This Woman's Work.'

    • 16 min
    The Post / A Fantastic Woman (Secondary)

    The Post / A Fantastic Woman (Secondary)

    In this podcast we discuss gender and politics in films The Post, the true-life story of The Washington Post, and its owner Katherine Graham's fight to publish documents exposing the US Government's cover-up of the realities of the Vietnam War, and A Fantastic Woman, in which Marina, a transgender woman working as a nightclub singer and waitress in Santiago, Chile, fights bigotry.

    Film Guide: The Post
    https://www.intofilm.org/films/19095

    Blog: The Post
    https://www.intofilm.org/news-and-views/articles/the-post-feature

    Film Guide: A Fantastic Woman
    https://www.intofilm.org/films/19111

    Blog: A Fantastic Woman
    https://www.intofilm.org/news-and-views/articles/a-fantastic-woman-10-great-transgender-films-feature

    • 19 min

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Fantastic for schools

So much great information and insight into films that I can share with students. A wealth of resources and learning for teachers and pupils in one accessible podcast, love it!

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