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Film @ The Arts Unit supports teachers and students in the dynamic realm of filmmaking. Join us in celebrating and showcasing your students' filmmaking accomplishments through engagement in live and virtual festivals, showcases, events, and awards. Enhance your students' visual storytelling skills with our online resource collection, offering practical guides on filmmaking, screenwriting, and utilising filmmaking technology for compelling storytelling.

Film By

Kindergarten to Year 8

Film By provides teachers and students with filmmaking skills and expertise to tell their own stories. The program includes festivals, workshops and professional learning opportunities in film for teachers and students from all schools in NSW.

CApture Film Festival

Years 9, 10 and 11

CApture Film Festival showcases films from Year 9, 10 and 11 students.

Film resources

Explore our collection of digital resources to support student filmmaking.

Enquiries

Karishma Mathur

Film By Officer

The Arts Unit

karishma.mathur@det.nsw.edu.au

0427 770 377

David Todd

Digital Engagement Officer

The Arts Unit

david.todd@det.nsw.edu.au

Programs

Film By

Kindergarten to Year 8

Film By provides teachers and students with filmmaking skills and expertise to tell their own stories. The program includes festivals, workshops and professional learning opportunities in film for teachers and students from all schools in NSW.

CApture Film Festival

Years 9, 10 and 11

CApture Film Festival showcases films from Year 9, 10 and 11 students.

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Related digital resources

Lights, camera, action!

Creative Resource Film

This Film By resource supports students and teachers across NSW to think creatively and critically as they learn filmmaking skills while collaborating and communicating to make their own films.

CApture filmmaking

Creative Resource Drama

Years 9, 10 and 11

Through this filmmaking resource, you will explore the visual and sensory language of film, working with your peers and teacher(s) to create a short film through a process of development, pre-production, production and post-production.

Filmmaking

Art Bites Drama Film

Drama – Primary to lower secondary

A practical guide to using filmmaking technology to tell your story.

Making movies

Creative Class Drama Film

Years 7 to 10 drama

Explore screenwriting for video drama.

Creating and analysing dance on film

Creative Resource Dance Film

Secondary dance teachers

This e-Learning series provides teachers with the skills and knowledge to create and analyse dance on film.

NSW Public Schools Dance Ensembles 2021– dance films

Creative Resource Dance Film

Enjoy these stunning video works from our 2021 dance ensembles.

Short Film Ensemble

Creative Resource Drama Film

Watch the short film ensemble creations as students explore comedy, dialogue, action, and suspense!

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