Outreach & International

SSAW has been working closely with various existing outreach schemes to bring potential students into a film making environment and to offer those who would not necessarily consider a career in filmmaking an idea of the experience of being on set.

Programmes supported in 2006/7:

• The It's My Shout Scheme, which is run by Bridgend County Borough Council and is supported by ITV Wales and CYFLE. The scheme brings 1400 young people and 50 students together for a three-film summer shoot that includes extensive pre- and post-production experience. SSAW supported 50 students to take part in all areas of production in 2006, working alongside experienced heads of department and school children and bridging the gap between them. A number of students have been offered paid work in the industry as a result.
  
  
• The Reaching Higher feature film project organised by Tornado Films and First Campus leads school-age students through a 6-month development programme for a feature film script with Emmerdale writer Andrew Kirk. The film's director and cast rehearsed scenes at the IFSW studios and SSAW students took part in the pre-production and three-week shoot in South Wales.
  
  
• The Merthyr Media Project and the Gate project working with First Campus, is a summer school offering 16-18 year olds from the University of Glamorgan's area schools the chance to make short drama and documentary films with film lecturers. The scheme will be rolled out to the schools near the University of Wales, Newport. SSAW will also be working with the Merthyr Media Project on schemes for local community women's film clubs.
  
  
• During the summer of 2007 SSAW worked closely with Media Education Wales and First Campus to offer 6 weeks of summer film schools - the Moviemakers Summer Film School for schools in the Newport and Valleys area.
  
• We also collaborated with the Bournemouth Screen Academy to offer two schools a chance to take part in the Bouremouth 2 week summer film school.
  
  
• For 2008 we are collaborating with the Film Agency for Wales and local councils in Pembrokeshire, Gwynedd, Cardiff, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Flint to bring the After School Film Club scheme to Wales where 20 clubs will be set up and run for a pilot year.

SSAW is also working with the new Zoom Children and Young People's Film and Media Festival and programme, Media4Schools and Media4Communities as well as with Media Education Wales. We are developing new relationships with Croeso (Equality and Human Rights Commission), Women in Film and TV and the Butetown History and Arts Centre.

For additional promotion to a wider audience SSAW engages with the following film festivals and organisations:

The Iris Short Film Prize Festival, Cardiff
The Black Welsh Film Festival, South Wales
The Womens' World Film Festival, Cardiff
BAFTA Cymru
Cheltenham Screenwriter's Festival
Encounters Festival, Bristol
The Wales One World Festival (all Wales)
The Greenman Festival (Hay on Wye)
The Guardian Hay Literature Festival
Ffresh, the Student Moving Image Festival of Wales
SAND - Swansea Animation Days

If you would like to suggest an outreach project for the Screen Academy Wales please contact Sara Herritty.

International partners and bursaries for exchange

Collaboration with international partners is at the heart of SSAW's development. The SSAW project will be forming close relationships with film schools worldwide to set up student exchange programmes. We will also invite professors with expensive film knowledge and international professionals in all fields of filmmaking to share their knowledge through masterclasses and curriculum development in order to strengthen the curriculum on offer in Wales. Student exchange bursaries will be made available to students to attend selected film schools around the world, to encourage the sharing of information and skills with international counterparts and to increase awareness of film making practices worldwide.

International exchange

SSAW is currently a member of EKRAN, part of the EU's MEDIA initiative, which is held at the the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw. The EKRAN collaboration brings together film students from Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland and Wales. It allows three SSAW graduates to attend five months of development workshops on a selected feature film project. Students attending the EKRAN initiative take part in scene and script analysis and shoot key scenes from their projects with mentors for storyboarding, editing, cinematography and directing.

The European training project EKRAN is a collaborative project between the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing (Poland), FOCAL (Switzerland), the Norwegian Film Development (Norway), the Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany), the Internationale FilmSchule Köln (Germany), the International Film School Wales (Great Britain), NFI Productions (Netherlands) and Association of Polish Filmmakers (Poland). EKRAN is an international training program focusing on the creative pre-production process, as based on shooting practice. Group and individual work will be supervised by highly professional filmmakers. EKRAN 2007 is already a third edition of the Programme.

Tutors

Wojciech Marczewski, Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Zanussi, Edward Zebrowski (Poland), Lone Scherfig, Thomas Vinterberg, Per Fly, Mogens Rukov (Denmark), Janos Szas, Ildiko Enyedi (Hungary), Antoine Jaccoud (Switzerland), Udayan Prasad, Marilyn Milgrom, Nigel Orrillard (Great Britain)

In addition, three ‹Godfathers› – Andrzej Wajda, Volker Schlöndorff and Alexander Sokurow – will act as masters of visual grammar, and interact creatively with the teams.

For detailed information, kindly consult http://www.ekran.info.pl

CARTOON
Through the International Film School Wales, SSAW is also part of CARTOON, the European animation schools group, which discusses opportunities for animators in new markets and the use of new technologies, as well as analysing current production trends and sharing best practice.