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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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What Is A Classic Film?
Alison Gardner, Rebecca Harrison and Nick Varley discuss what makes a classic film.
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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.'
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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
Customer Reviews
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!