Activities & screenings for schools, colleges and home educators

Activities tailored to your students

Want to watch a film linked to a module or class topic? Reward your group at the end of term with a screening? Want to showcase your group’s own productions, on the big screen? Ask about our private education screenings. 

Want to inspire the next generation of filmmakers or spice up a familiar topic, get your students more engaged with a topic? We can hold small filmmaking workshops at your school or activity group with a screening at Depot of the results. Bespoke to your topic and level of skill.

We can offer a combination of any of the above; you choose the topic, the film and we’ll put together an tailor-made event for you.

 

 

For any questions, queries or ideas for projects, please contact our education manager, Anthony via email: [email protected]

‘Your cinema is such a brilliant resource for us. The staff are so helpful and charming and the facilities are amazing.’

S Jago

Geography and History Teacher, Lewes Old Grammar school

Home Education

Looking for creative activities for your children? We offer courses in filmmaking, photography and animation. Sessions take place in our studio space and are run by experienced teachers and professionals. They usually run on Monday mornings, 10:15 – 12:15, although this can vary from project to project.

If you are after something specific, have your own ideas for projects or have any queries, please email us: [email protected]

 

Student Study Days

Led by a team of expert lecturers and professionals, our study days include a film screening (in our luxurious screen 1), supported with lectures and Q&As designed to support a range of BTEC / A-Level film and media students.

Days start at 10:00 and finish around 15:00. 

Tickets cost £10 per student, accompanying staff are free.

This year: I Am A Killer (with production team), Get Out + TAPE Collective shorts, Vertigo, Black Panther, a film career’s day plus Future Film Festival short film screening + Q&As with filmmakers.

 

Coming soon, in association with the BFI:

Mon 10 Feb – Careers in Film a study day with talks from industry professionals starting out on careers in film that are not centred on production. 

Wed 26 Feb – Future Film Festival on Tour, a selection of local films pulled from this years festival entries, plus Q&As with filmmakers.

For any queries or to book places for your school or college, please contact our education manager Anthony via email: [email protected]

Black Panther
A-Level Media Studies
Monday 16 December

Chadwick Boseman’s iconic role endures and Black Panther remains one of the MCU’s best entries. T’Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future, confronting a challenger from his country’s past along the way.

This A Level Media Studies day covers the following key concepts:

Historical Contexts: The Black Panthers?
Political, Social and Cultural Contexts: What are the stories we tell? 
Economic Context: Does Disney make a difference?

Lecture will be led by Faye Pirate, an experienced lecturer with many years experience teaching across a range of successful A-Level & BTEC media and film courses.

 

Vertigo
A-Level Film Studies
Wednesday 22 January

Alfred Hitchcock’s masterwork. Start the year with a classic. A former San Francisco police detective juggles his personal demons and his obsession with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who herself may be deeply disturbed.

In this A Level Film Studies day we will focus in particular on the auteur theory, film form and cover elements of the Hollywood studio system of the time.

Lecture will led by Ellen Cheshire, a film historian, writer and lecturer who is a regular contributor to BFI publications, has taught at Sussex and Chichester universities and was part of the writing team for the current WJEC A Level Film textbook.

 

 

INTO FILM free screenings

Depot is proud to once again be a part of BFI’s free screening programme.

We have films suitable for all ages; from primary school to college students. To book your school or group or family into a free screening visit the INTO FILM website. Bookings are taken via INTO FILM not Depot so you won’t find these films on our main website or listings. Most screenings start at 10:30.

If you have any queries related to these screenings please contact our education manager Anthony via email: [email protected]

Wed 13 Nov
The Wild Robot  U  (suitable for primary schools)
After a shipwreck an intelligent robot is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment it begins to bond with the island’s animals.

Two performances of this film are available:
– A regular screening in our largest screen at 10:30.
– An Autism Friendly screening in our smallest screen at 10:15.

Mon 18 Nov
The Fall Guy  12A  (suitable for secondary schools and colleges)
A genuinely funny action/rom-com inspired by the classic 80’s TV show. A stuntman, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life. What could possibly go right?

Fri 22 Nov
I Could Never Go Vegan  12A  (suitable for secondary schools and colleges)
Five words uttered around the world by many a non-vegan, but why? On a quest for the truth, a filmmaker sets out on a journey to find out the leading arguments facing the vegan movement, and if they’re justified.

Peter Bradshaw, writing in The Guardian, says its’s a “…cheerfully persuasive film” and “…the kind of punchy and straightforward film-making that we used to see all the time in the 00s, that was effectively made popular by Michael Moore.

If you have any queries related to these screenings please contact our education manager Anthony via email: [email protected]