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 :

• For 200-9 we collaboratedwith the Film Agency for Wales, Continu Cymru and local councils in Pembrokeshire, Gwynedd, Cardiff, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Flint to bring the After School Film Club scheme to Wales where 17 clubs have set up and run for a pilot year. Ongoing support in terms of arranging industry visits and student involvement is on the cards for the coming year as we collaborate with the partners and FILMCLUB to bring the benefits of filmmaking and appreciation to a new audience.
  
  
• 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, and a further 35 each year in 2007 and 2008 - 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 in 2007 and 2008 to offer two schools a chance to take part in the Bouremouth two week summer film school.
  

SSAW is also working with the 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 Hannah Raybould

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 exchanges

EKRAN
SSAW has been 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. Over the period 2005-8 we provided support for 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. For detailed information click here

INDIA
In 2007 we collaborated with the Asian Film and TV Academy to send 5 students on a two week exchange where they made the film Indian Boyo which has gone on to screen internationally.

EUROPE
In 2009-10 we are supporting Joe Wallace as our SSAW representative on the Animation Sans Frontieres programme.

CHINA and NEW YORK
Proposals are underway for exchange programmes in 2009-10 with China and New York.

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.

ANIMATION SANS FRONTIERES and ENGAGE
SSAW has made it possible for 3 graduates to take part in the Screen Academy Scotland MEDIA funded programme for writers, producers and directors: ENGAGE
And has in 2009-10 offered a bursary to Joe Wallance (BA Animation @ Newport Student Panel representative) to take part in the year-long MEDIA funded Animation Sand Frontieres programme.