Topic: Society

Life Growing Up – Part 1 – “We don’t need your pity. We just need you to be educated.”

This film, and three more like it, have been created using the true stories of young people with HIV, and performed by actors. What’s it like to find out you have HIV when you are a child? Part 1 looks at the emotional impact, and the prejudice and discrimination that still exists around HIV. The films aim to raise awareness and understanding of the experiences and needs of young people living with HIV.

Courtesy of the Children’s HIV Association – and follow the link for more help and information.

Life Growing Up – Part 1

Video length - 03.18

Published date - Feb 2019

Keystage(s) - 4

An Untold Story – Robyn is a young filmmaker from a small town in Scotland. She is used to telling other people’s stories, but has never put her own on camera. So in this film, she describes how she came to realise that she was gay, the initial shame she felt (and was made to feel) before proudly accepting herself for who she is.

An Untold Story

Video length - 08.50

Published date - Jan 2019

Keystage(s) - 4

Ollie – My Future. My Career. My RE. Ollie is a sports reporter and his job takes him all over the world. He loves travelling, and having taken RE at school, he understands how religious beliefs influence countries and cultures, and this gives him a deeper appreciation of the places he visits and the people he meets.

Studying RE at GCSE and A Level provides you with important life skills, and offers opportunities in further education and a wide variety of careers. Watch the other MY FUTURE. MY CAREER. MY RE. films to hear more real stories about how Religious Studies benefits students and young professionals.

Ollie – My Future. My Career. My RE.

Video length - 01.23

Published date - Nov 2018

Keystage(s) - 3 and 4

Downloadable resources

Mo – My Future. My Career. My RE. Mo has been a firefighter for ten years, and he loves it. He has found that the knowledge and understanding he gained by studying RE has given him empathy for the many different communities he serves, and helps him to do his job better.

Mo – My Future. My Career. My RE.

Video length - 01.10

Published date - Nov 2018

Keystage(s) - 3 and 4

Downloadable resources

Shermeen – My Future. My Career. My RE. Shermeen is studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Warwick University, but she believes that studying RS at GCSE and A Level has helped her in her degree course. RS taught her to explore tough academic questions, how to construct complex arguments, and how to examine differing points of view and gain a new perspective on human behaviour.

Shermeen – My Future. My Career. My RE.

Video length - 01.30

Published date - Oct 2018

Keystage(s) - 3 and 4

Downloadable resources

Sena – My Future. My Career. My RE. Sena is a law student at Oxford Brookes University, and she’s found that a lot of the skills she learned while studying RE at school have been really valuable: learning to debate, seeing other people’s points of view, even making the case for a point of view that she disagrees with. There was the opportunity to immerse herself in other cultures, gain a deeper understanding of the world and learn how to consider different perspectives.

Sena – My Future. My Career. My RE.

Video length - 01.18

Published date - Oct 2018

Keystage(s) - 3 and 4

Downloadable resources

One-to-One – James has been outed at school before he could come out on his own terms, and he’s afraid of what his parents will say when they discover he’s got a boyfriend. With everything getting too much for him, James visits his youthworker to talk it all out, one-to-one.

A short coming-of-age drama by Toby Lloyd and Conor Deedigan.

Nominated for the Teen Award at the Children’s BAFTAs 2019.

One-to-One

Video length - 13.25

Published date - Sep 2018

Keystage(s) - 3 and 4

Downloadable resources

First Love – Girl meets boy for their first date. That’s it. Oh, apart from the fact that they both have disabilities. But will it make any difference?

First Love

Video length - 07.46

Published date - Jun 2018

Keystage(s) - 3

You Can’t Play With Us – Anna plays centre back for Hampstead Women’s Football Club. She’s proved all the boys who said girls can’t play football wrong by winning an international cap, and so – at 18 years old – it’s time to decide whether to pursue a career in professional football.

Directed by Cray Smith and made during the BFI Film Academy’s documentary filmmaking residential course run by our friends at VividEcho.

You Can’t Play With Us

Video length - 06.56

Published date - Jun 2018

Keystage(s) - 3 and 4

The Ups of Down’s – Oliver Hellowell is a wildlife photographer with fans all over the world. He also has Down’s Syndrome which means he has an extra chromosome in each of his cells. Chromosomes carry instructions for the way babies develop and grow, and most people have 46 in each cell. People with Down’s Syndrome have 47 – an extra copy of chromosome 21 – which can cause learning disabilities. In this film, Oliver’s mother Wendy describes what it was like to have a child with Down’s Syndrome, and how Oliver – and his photographs – have changed her life for the better.

A film by Kim Roden.