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Celebrating Children's Mental Health Week

WEBNow in its 10th year, the theme for this year's Children's Mental Health Week (5-11 Feb) is 'My Voice Matters', and seeks to empower young people by providing them with the tools they need to express themselves. Film can be an incredible medium to support young people's mental health and wellbeing, helping to illustrate complicated or difficult

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Explore Mental and Emotional Wellbeing with Into Film+

WEBIn the lead up to World Mental Health Day on 10 October, we have a whole host of resources and films to support you in bringing mental wellbeing awareness into your classroom. Films can a valuable way to explore difficult topics such as grief, bereavement, bullying and emotional awareness, and can support both primary and secondary …

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Tap into Mental Health Awareness Week with our Moving Minds …

WEBSince its inception as a result of our ICAP Charity Day funding in 2017, our hugely successful Moving Minds filmmaking project has spawned 19 youth-made films, a celebratory screening day, a new category at the 2019 Into Film Awards and a brand new teaching resource. The films produced are also a perfect resource for exploring Mental …

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News & Views

WEBTo mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Into Film's Mental Health Ambassador, Georgia Dodsworth (20), shares her thoughts on the importance of the event, and the power that film has to help young people by sharing experiences and promoting awareness for mental health issues.

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News & Views

WEBDirected by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, McQueen combines interviews of his friends and family with archival footage of the man himself to tell his remarkable story, and highlight wider issues in culture, fame, creativity, wellbeing and mental health. The fashion world is associated with high glamour, captured in films such as The Devil

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Moving Minds 2: Revealing the final films

WEBThe Moving Minds 2 short films launch ahead of Children's Mental Health Week, 1-7 February, a project made possible with the funds raised at the 2019, ICAP Charity Day. The films, created by young people with the help of professional filmmakers, are personal and topical, with themes ranging from being trapped in lockdown to …

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News & Views

WEBHaving launched the Moving Minds Filmmaking Project earlier in 2018 to inspire young people to tackle the subject of mental wellbeing, we will be screening the first of the finished films for World Mental Health Day (10 Oct) and later at …

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Body Image on Screen

WEBA Kid For Two Farthings (1955) Memorable film about a boy growing up in a working-class area of London after World War Two, who becomes obsessed with a fable he hears. This snapshot of post-war East London reveals a society under pressure to put on a brave face after the ravages of war. Amateur boxer Sam Heppner strives for the idealised male

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Into Film Film in Education Film Clubs

WEBResources for Classes and Clubs. Our resources use the unique medium of film to open-up the curriculum in exciting, accessible ways, enhancing classroom lessons and Into Film Clubs. Into Film has been invaluable in supporting pupils’ wellbeing and mental health through access to high-quality resources.

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Mental health and modern masculinity in 'The Rider'

WEBA man of few words, Brady also embodies a masculine tendency to repress emotions and not discuss mental health issues for fear of appearing weak and vulnerable. Complicating this still further is the fact that, for Brady, his income, independence, and identity are all tied up in the rodeo. With his father placing the family in debt due to

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I Am Greta: How One Teenager Started a Climate Revolution

WEBIn 2018, a 15-year-old activist in Sweden named Greta Thunberg began a sit-down protest outside her country's parliament building in Stockholm. With a national election looming, Greta was frustrated at politicians and elected leaders seemingly ignoring the issue of climate change during the campaign, seeking to kick it into the long grass

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