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Let's kick off 2025 with success! This month, we're bringing you a curated selection of free events, resources, and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities designed to support you and the young people you work with explore careers in film, TV, games, animation, and VFX.
2024 marked another monumental year at Into Film, with hundreds of thousands of educators, careers professionals, and young people engaging with our programmes. We are incredibly grateful for your support and engagement which empower us to continue delivering valuable resources and enhancing careers programmes across the UK.
The start of the new year is the perfect time to set ambitious goals to refresh your careers programmes, ensuring you inspire young people with up-to-date insights into the UK's screen industries.
Just like you, we at Into Film have been busy looking ahead to another year of inspiring opportunities for young people. Below, you'll find the most relevant resources and events to help educators and careers professionals like you enter and navigate 2025 with confidence.
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Start the New Year with a pledge to hit your annual CPD targets
Continual improvement in your own training and development is indispensable. That's where we come in! Into Film can help with your learning and training activities throughout 2025. You could try our brand-new First Jobs in Film and TV course, take a peek at the Supporting Screen Careers Conversations course or video, look out for our next webinar or use our free resources to upskill and update your screen careers knowledge. All are quick and essential tools to enable careers professionals and educators to keep on top of your ongoing development.
Thanks for a great session with Into Film. That was the best careers event I have attended to bring the industry alive in a straightforward way for us careers advisers.
Careers Adviser
Plan ahead for National Careers Week (NCW) 2025
National Careers Week 2025 (3-8 March) is a one-week celebration of careers guidance. We are proud to play our part during the week, as well as throughout the year, to help support young people interested in pursuing a career in the screen industries. Here's what's in our calendar so far for young people in schools and colleges across the UK. Why not save the dates to help your NCW planning.
- Careers Event with BAFTA and Into Film Monday 3 March, morning and afternoon events. Featuring sessions for ages 15-18 from industry experts that highlight the range of roles in the screen industry. Open to schools and colleges UK-wide. Book for the event via Into Film - open for bookings soon.
- Student Webinar with Unifrog - Monday 3 March, 4.30pm. Session for ages 11-18 and educators. This will be a bookable event via Unifrog.
- Parent & Carer Webinar with Unifrog Tuesday 4 March, 5.30pm. Session helping parents and guardians know what the options in the screen industries are and where to look. Ideal for those looking at career options and decision-making support. This will be a bookable event via Unifrog.
- ERIC Careers Talk Tuesday 4 March, 10am. ERIC is hosting speakers from across the creative industries every day this week, with Tuesday showcasing the screen industries. Hear from Into Film or sign up to watch the recording afterwards. Book HERE.
- Media Careers Podcast LIVE at BBC MediaCity - Wednesday 5 March, morning and afternoon. Young people from Greater Manchester will join the Into Film team at BBC MediaCity to tour the facilities and watch the recording of a live careers podcast. This event is by invitation only but watch our socials and the Media Careers Podcast after the event and find out more.
- Speakers for Schools Broadcast - Friday 7 March, 10am This will be a bookable event. Please go HERE.
- For activities happening right across the UK in March, look out for special careers events in the Into Film Spring Screenings. Keep an eye on our website for more and if you are an Account Holder you will receive an email about this. Not an Account Holder? Join us now, for free.
- And finally, for a host of activity sheets, handouts, lessons, virtual broadcasts and more to support your National Careers Week planning, our Careers Hub is the ideal place to start.
The 2025 National Careers Week theme is 'You can'. We believe every young person CAN too and has the potential to succeed and reach their full potential. Into Film is here to support them and those who support them to step into a career in the screen industries this year, and beyond. Our Into Film Ambassador Louise Sedgewick put it well in our Annual Review, saying:
If you can see it, you can be it!
Louise Sedgewick, Into Film Education Ambassador, teaching 11–18-year-olds English and media at St Margaret’s Academy in Livingston, Scotland
Out and about - meet the team
Look out for Into Film at a range of careers events this spring:
- If you're visiting the Pinewood Futures Festival on Friday 28 February and Saturday 1 March, look out for the Into Film stand. Come and say hello, we'll be happy to talk about all things screen careers and film-making.
- It's not too late to book your free place at the National Career Guidance Show (NGCS) 2025
- Thursday 6 February (NCGS South West in Exeter)
- Thursday 27 February (NCGS North in Leeds)
- Tuesday 1 April (NCGS London).
We'll be there. Please pop by our stand to say hello. In NGCS Exeter and London, you can join our Careers Lead, Cerys Evans, in the seminar space to hear key messages on how to support young people to navigate careers in the screen industries.
Kickstart Careers with the Into Film Awards 2025
Why not encourage young people to ‘have a go' at filmmaking as a great way to test their interest in a career in the screen industries. Students have until March 4 to create, edit and submit their short films into the biggest film awards event for young people in the UK. Every year Into Film brings together young people, film industry professionals, educators and film stars to celebrate the achievements of the next generation of talent from within the world of film. We encourage entries from all levels of filmmaking including beginners still harnessing their skills - we strive to encourage and nurture the future faces in filmmaking.
There are 11 categories recognising talent in young people aged 5-19, including categories for animated, live-action, and documentary filmmaking. Taking part in the Into Film Awards can lead to a range of benefits including career development, especially for those who win our prestigious Ones to Watch award.
Discover more below, and don't forget there's a cash prize too!
Spotlight Resources
This month we're spotlighting the Industry Insiders series of short, snappy lessons to introduce secondary-aged students to the responsibilities of key industry roles. Each lesson features an industry encounter with a different role: editor, director, director of photography, art director.
These engaging, ready-to-use PowerPoint lessons introduce students to key roles in the screen industry, such as art director, director, director of photography, and editor. Students will find out what they do, get their top tips, find out the skills they need for their job, and try out some activities to develop an understanding of roles.
Into Film becomes an Affiliate Member of the CDI
At Into Film, we're dedicated to empowering educators and careers professionals to inspire young people to explore careers in the screen industries. That's why, we are thrilled to join the Career Development Institute (CDI) as an affiliate member, aligning with the UK's professional body for careers work.
This exciting partnership will allow us to further extend our expertise and better equip young people with the knowledge and opportunities needed to pursue careers in this dynamic field.
ScreenWorks
If you're working with young people in Northern Ireland, don't miss the latest ScreenWorks opportunities. Funded by the Department for Communities through Northern Ireland Screen and delivered by Into Film, our 3-5 day ScreenWorks work experience placements help young people aged 14-19 learn more about careers in the screen industries with first-hand experience.
Further careers resources
To learn more about how you can educate and guide young people toward their dream careers, browse our Careers Hub for even more resources and training to enhance your careers programme, and discover more opportunities for young people. Be sure to check back again in early February for more top events and resources you can use in the new year to support screen careers conversations.
Into Film is proud to be an Affiliate Member of the Career Development Institute (CDI), and a Social Mobility Partner of Speakers for Schools.
