The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards is an electrifying online media festival that will honor young people worldwide who have creatively communicated their vision for change in their communities and their lives through video, photography, graphic arts, and audio. Submissions are now open and Adobe offering a variety of prizes to the organizations and youth who participate. If your film is one of the winners, your school could win Adobe software, Dell laptops, and Samsung camcorders, cash donations to a charity of your choice, and flip cameras. For more information about the awards and how you can submit your film, visit http://www.youthvoices.adobe.com/awards/.

Cineclub has been awarded QISS Emerged Kitemark from Canterbury Christchurch College in recognition of our commitment to providing schools with high quality extended services activities in film.

Company Manager Eleanor Tomsett says “Cineclub has always been committed to providing high quality film education programmes to schools, much of which happens outside of school hours. Being awarded QISS Emerged demonstrates our commitment to quality and the importance of providing out of school hours learning activities to young pupils. Cineclub now follows Bigfoot as the second arts education company to be award the prestigious kitemark.”

the RSA is running a short film competition where we are encouraging people to make a visual interpretation of one of our lectures. The winner will receive £2,000 and have their film shown on our YouTube site alongside the work of Andrew Parks. Please see the website for further details: http://www.thersa.org/events/film-competition or click here to see the leaflet.

Our dear friends at the British Film Institute present We The Peoples Film Festival this Saturday, 19th November.

We the Peoples Film Festival challenges young people to get involved in big issues, like human rights and peace-keeping. As well as shorts and features we’ll have debates with filmmakers and decision makers, including a live link up to young creatives in Soweto. There’s a chance to win a £500 bursary and mentoring to make a documentary for next year’s festival. And there are awards for the best films screened during the day.

For more information visit bfi.org.uk/futurefilm

This friday marks 11.11.11 – a very special day, and you have the chance to participate in the largest collaborative storytelling event in human history with the Eleven11 Project!

On this auspicious day, anyone in the world who has access to any recording device will be asked to capture their lives through film, photography, music, sound and text. It’s quintessentially “a day in the life of the world” told by the people of earth.

Once you have your footage, you submit it to the Project team, who over the next year will curate it into a book series, world music collection and a documentary film, which will be screened around the world on the 21st September 2012 – International Day of Peace. Better yet, all profits raised will go to charities aligned with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Don’t miss your chance to be part of this fantastic project, this friday!! Click here to upload your footage, but remember it must be created on friday 11.11.11.

Cineclub is very pleased to announce that we have received funding from 2 fantastic organisations to allow us to continue our work.

Cineclub is thrilled to be working with children’s charity The Transformation Trust to enable 10 schools in the Birmingham area to join the Cineclub network. Furthermore, Cineclub isworking in partnership with mac birmingham to deliver this exciting project.

For more information about The Transformation Trust visit their website http://www.transformationtrust.org.uk.

For more information about mac birmingham please visit their website http://www.macarts.co.uk.

The BFI Transition Fund has also awarded Cineclub a generous amount of funding to enable us to develop our network of schools and our new Film For Thought programme as part of our Gold membership.

With this funding Cineclub will be able to offer a number of funded places to our existing network and new members. We will be setting up clusters in Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle, and have 10 funded places  in each region. Whether you work in a school local to one of these areas or are in charge of a cluster of schools,  if you are interested in applying for one of these funded memberships make sure you contact tamla@cineclub.org.uk for more information.

Edusites is committed to developing agency, innovation and support for learning. We provide a wealth of services including online resources, revision courses for schools, irevise, itraining and consultancy. Our services improve student outcomes and enable teachers to construct engaging, well-planned learning.

The sites we create provide subject-specific face-to-face and online facilities to teachers and students. At present we have three edusites: EnglishEdu, a site designed to support English teachers, FilmEdu, a site designed to support Film Studies teachers, and MediaEdu, a site designed to support Media Studies teachers and their students. There are over 550 schools and colleges using these sites. MediaEdu is the largest subject-specific resource site for Media teachers in the country. To celebrate the launch of FilmEdu, our latest site, we have partnered Cineclub to extend their services to all new subscribers to Edu sites.

uScreen has launched a new website, helping young deaf and disabled filmmakers work alongside non-disabled young filmmakers to collaborate and share their work. Anyone aged 14-25 can sign up to  use the online tools that include a storyboard section and editing software. There is also a ‘how to’ section, which gives you advice on making your film, and an accessibility tool that enables you to add subtitles, video captioning and British sign Language to your finished film

http://uscreen.co.uk/

Next Cornwall training day will take place at the Dragon Leisure Centre in Bodmin on 7th February 2011. To book your place call us now!

Download Cornwall Regional Membership flier

Cineclub has partnered with the National Media Museum to launch a brand new Bradford cluster. Our next training day will take place on Friday 28th January – to get involved give us a call on 0333 577 9869 or email sandra@cineclub.org.uk