Sharing Good Practice
10 Tips to engage your students
with filmmaking
By Steve Bambury
Members of the cast and crew from “The
Good side of Bad” with their CIFF Awards”
Photo Credit: Steve Bambury
I
wasn’t always a teacher. I actually
studied film at university and
worked as an independent
filmmaker
before
financial
constraints forced me to seek a new
path.
Fifteen years later, I’m glad that I still
get to work with film in the classroom
to inspire the next generation of
potential moviemakers. Back in the UK,
the film work that I did with students
was featured on the BBC and Channel
4. Here in Dubai, I recently led a team
of Year 6 students to the finals of the
Children’s International Film Festival
for the second year in a row. My school,
JESS Jumeirah, has now collected 7
awards in total since the film festival
began two years ago including Best
Film, Best Cinematographer, Best
Writer and Best Director in 2014 and
Runner Up to Best Film, Best Writer
and Best Actor in 2015.
Making a film with children can be one
of the most rewarding a