Research and Impact - Film for Learning

Into Film supports teachers to use film and the moving image across the curriculum to drive positive learning outcomes for pupils.

Our comprehensive offer for schools includes our Teaching with Film programme, supported by the BFI awarding National Lottery good cause funding, which provides a range of classroom resources and training to educators teaching across the curriculum, including film and media studies.

Our offer also includes Into Film+, the UK's first free* streaming service for all school settings, a bespoke online learning platform for teachers, and a year-round in-cinema programme that each year hosts 500,000 children, young people and teachers at thousands of screenings and special education and careers-focussed events across the UK.

Our impact in the classroom

Film has an important role to play in delivering a broad and balanced curriculum and is used by educators throughout the UK to bring subjects alive, develop key skills and broaden pupils' access to enrichment activities and culture. In 2024, Into Film ran a survey with 339 educators, who reported the following outcomes:

• Development of literacy skills - 83%
• Development of social skills - 75%
• Supported creativity - 95%
• Increased motivation to learn - 82%
• Increased enjoyment of school - 95%
• Improved access to culture - 98%

Find out more about our impact in Film for Learning

Below you can read and download our most recent evaluations and reports exploring and assessing both Into Film's wider activity, and the impact of specific projects.

Into Film Festival 2025 Report

An in-depth look at the most recent Into Film Festival, which took place in November 2025; a celebration of cinema that engaged 388,727 young people and educators.

Into Film's Games Programme Summary Report (2024)

A look into our Games programme, and its overall aim of increasing the value educators place on games for teaching and learning, and as a potential career pathway for young people.

Film for Learning Project Report (2023)

Between 2019-2022, our Film for Learning project provided training and support for primary school teachers and senior leaders in England and Northern Ireland to achieve whole school change with film. This summary report focuses on the programme's impact on literacy teaching and learning at participating schools.

Into Film Programme 2018-23 Evaluation (2023)

Independent consultancy SQW's evaluation Into Film's programme of work between 2018 and 2023 explored the outcomes of Into Film's activity. The evaluation drew on evidence from interviews, focus groups and surveys, and analysis of secondary data.

* Screenings for an entertainment or extra-curricular purpose require a PVS (Public Video Screening) Licence from Filmbankmedia. State-funded schools in England are covered by the PVS Licence.