NEW! Study Days for schools
Study Days for sixth form and colleges
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 we’ve had: I Am A Killer (with production team), Get Out + TAPE Collective shorts, Black Panther and Vertigo days. And most recently, in association with the BFI, Production Isn’t Everything Careers Day & Future Film Fetsival: South East Edition.
Study days for this academic year are all over now, but will start up again after Summer in October. Please email me (email below) if you’d like to discuss your school’s or college’s needs, or would like to know whats coming up before it lands on the website.
For any queries or to book places for your school or college, please contact our education manager Anthony via email: [email protected]
Seeking Mavis Beacon
Monday 10 October
10:30
A new, vibrant, thought-provoking, documentary hand-picked for students of film and filmmaking.
Filmmakers Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross film their DIY investigation to uncover the woman behind the face of ‘Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing’, an educational software programme developed in the 1980s.
Retailers in the 80s were convinced a software programme featuring a dark-skinned Black woman wouldn’t sell, but it ended up becoming one of the most successful and lucrative educational products of all time. What became of the influential cover model who vanished decades ago? Their sleuthing uncovers a shocking revelation. What follows leads Jones and Ross to question, in the age of AI and technological omnipresence, who does our image really belong to?
We are lucky enough to have Cristina Garcia, from TAPE Collective, the film’s UK distributor, joining us to introduce the film and the hard work that TAPE Collective do to champion a wider range of voices in film making.
“This maximalist convergence of images raises important questions about the relationship between race and technology, and the treatment of Black women in a field dominated by white men.”
The Guardian
All tickets are £5. You can buy seats for this screening direct from our website here or at our box office, in person or by phone. Please email me if you’d prefer to pay for a group via invoice: [email protected]
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.’
Activities for Home Education
Looking for creative activities for your children? We can create bespoke projects in filmmaking, photography and animation for your group.
Get in touch with me, Anthony Gates, if you’d like to discuss ideas and costs etc… [email protected]
