Research and Impact

At Into Film, we offer comprehensive information, guidance and support on careers in the screen industries for 11-18 year-olds.

This includes our Careers and Progression programme - supported by the British Film Institute (BFI) awarding National Lottery good cause funding - which provides Continuing Professional Development (CPD), classroom resources and online content for careers professionals, educators and young people.

We act as a bridge between the film industry and education sector, delivering large-scale audience development programmes and informing and inspiring young people about careers in the industry.

To help young people pursue a career in the screen industries, Into Film runs a number of schemes to give them a greater understanding of what's involved and better connect them to the industry.

Our screen careers programme also offers work experience and mentoring opportunities through our ScreenWorks and Trailblaze programmes in Northern Ireland, funded by our regional partner Northern Ireland Screen.

2024/2025 to date

• Over 8,000 careers resources downloaded by educators reaching an estimated 180,000 young people in schools
• 570+ careers professionals/teachers trained
• 2.4million+ combined views by 13-18 year olds on the Get Into Film youth-facing Instagram and TikTok channels
• Over 11,000 views on Into Film's YouTube Shorts channel

ScreenWorks at a glance in 2023-2024

• 31 ScreenWorks work experience programmes
• 844 young people engaged
• 123 schools, colleges, or universities involved
• After completing the ScreenWorks programme in 2023, 95% of young people said they had found a potential career pathway into the NI screen industries

Louise Sedgewick is an Into Film Education Ambassador, and an English and media teacher of 11-18-year-olds at St Margaret's Academy in Livingston. Recently, she outlined to us why she believes encouraging young people into screen careers is so important, and tells us about the film career she always wanted.

Find out more about our impact in Screen Careers

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

Into Film's Careers Offer - Summary Report

Here is some text about what this report covers.

ScreenWorks External Evaluation Report (2022-2024)

An evaluation of our Northern Ireland Screen-funded ScreenWorks programme over the period of 2022-24. ScreenWorks provides work experience opportunities for young people aged 14-19 to learn about careers across film, television, gaming, animation and visual effects.