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Film Street
Film Street is a unique, creatively-rich resource to delight children with the moving image.
Link: www.filmstreet.co.uk
The fun website for budding filmmakers and young cinema lovers
- Multiple award-winning site, winning kids category at the BIMA awards (2006), Best International Project in the European E-learning Awards (2007) and named Yahoo 'Find of the Year' in the education category (2007)
- Unique collaboration between Culture Online, First Light, the British Film Institute, UK Film Council, CBBC and Creative Partnerships
- Teachers are full of praise for Film Street - Paul Turner, ICT teacher in Stevenage, said: "Film Street provides a rich and varied resource for supporting teachers in their use of visual literacy. It's an engaging, motivating tool that extends children's learning in a purposeful way. I'm sold on it."
Film Street is designed to motivate children as young as six years old to build their understanding of film and film making. The project enables collaboration between children, and encourages them to reach out into the community and harness filmmaking tools to communicate.
"Film Street is such a terrific idea: innovative, informative and, above all, fun. Twenty years from now a successful young filmmaker will say, 'I first got hooked on film the moment I logged on to Film Street,'" said Sir Alan Parker.
Children were consulted and involved in all stages of the project. The website development evolved through a series of collaborations with groups of 6 to 9-year-olds and their teachers, parents, youth workers and other learning providers.
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