Film Festival 2013

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The Film Festival, which took place on 24^th June 2013 in the New Academic Building at Goldsmiths, was the culmination to the first year of the Critical Connections project and a celebration of the achievement of students across the project schools. Introduced by Professor Ken Jones, Head of the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, the festival was attended by a number of VIPs including: His Excellency, Ambassador Shen, Taipei Representative Office in the U.K.; The Counsellor Minister Mr Meriem Noureddine, Algerian Embassy; Baroness Estelle Morris (Chair of Council at Goldsmiths, Trustee of Paul Hamlyn Foundation); Abigail Knipe and Nora Loewenberg (Paul Hamlyn Foundation); Pascale Vassie (National Resource Centre).

On this page you can find:

introduction by project directors, Dr Jim Anderson and Dr Vicky Obied
links to all the films shown at the film festival with introductions by teachers and students from each school
clip of students from Peace School explaining what digital storytelling means to them
a short speech delivered by Baroness Morris on the day
comments from panel at end of festival
Film Review Booklet
Film Festival Activity Booklet

Baroness Estelle Morris summing up her impressions of students’ work presented at the film festival

… I was trying to count all the things that you’re showing that you can do and there’s really a lot, working together as a group, everybody who came up here talked about how they’d worked together as a group and it is learning another language because very often in this country we are not good at learning other languages.

… And the other skill of course you’ve showed today is actually the digital film-making. It’s a wonderful thing, but the cleverness is to bring it all together – so you’ve had to work with other people, you’ve had to make the film and learn all those skills and you’ve had to begin to learn a language. And if you put on top of that working with schools from overseas, I just think it’s been a wonderful show of what you’ve been able to do.