Research and Impact

At Into Film, we have a vibrant and engaging programme that champions film as a learning tool in the classroom, promotes careers in the screen industries, and inspires young people to express themselves through filmmaking. This is achieved through a wide range of learning and teaching materials, flagship events like the Into Film Festival and the Into Film Awards, and an ever-growing suite of training and CPD opportunities.

Measuring the reach and impact of our activity

Over more than ten years, we have developed multiple ways to collect and analyse both quantitative and qualitative data to assess the impact of our programme. We have built internal expertise around different methodologies with the aim of measuring the positive benefits of engaging with film in education. This knowledge, supported by experienced external evaluators, ensures we have developed a robust evaluation framework that demonstrates how we will measure our reach, impact and legacy against our funders' objectives, as well as enabling us to continue to review and enhance our unique programme.

Into Film at a glance

• 75,000+ teachers from 23,000+ UK schools and colleges hold Into Film Accounts
• 27,000+ unique users and 9,000+ unique organisations use the Into Film+ streaming service. That's a third of UK schools!
• 75% of Into Film Account holders are located outside of London and the South-East of England
• 1.5 million+ resources downloaded
• 70,000+ educators trained via in-person events, online training, webinars, and more
• 7,000+ extra-curricular Into Film Clubs across the UK
• 40,000+ children and young people attended in-school screen industry visits
• 45,000+ children and young people engaged with practical filmmaking
• 100,000+ attendees at non-Into Film Festival screenings and events

In 2024, we welcomed 350,000+ young people and educators to the Into Film Festival (including 40,000 first-time cinema-goers), and some 15,000 educators streamed films in the classroom using Into Film+. We launched Every Child a Filmmaker, an exciting new filmmaking initiative that has funded 35+ youth-led productions across the UK, and we have inspired many thousands of young people to consider a career in the screen industries through our Get into Film social media channels.