Film Focus Research Project
The Irish Film Institute, in collaboration with the Irish Film Board/BSÉ and supported by the Arts Council, is carrying out a research project, Film Focus, to develop a national strategy for film education and young people.
Given the huge range of film education programmes that are in place, this will be an
opportunity for educators, facilitators and programmers to share experiences and identify ways of working together. The first step is to
map all current activity.
Please take 10 minutes to complete this short questionnaire and tell us about your film education programme.
Thank you, we greatly appreciate your time.
IFI is supported by the Arts Council.
Film Focus Researcher
Thomas McGraw Lewis is working with IFI Education on our Film Focus research project.
Thomas is a Dublin-based educator, researcher and filmmaker. His work investigates the interplay between the disciplines of film and media production/reception, archival theory and practice, philosophical engagement and cultural enquiry. He has worked with young people in summer school filmmaking.
Thomas’ primary research interest is centred upon the politics of digital archiving: the manner in which audio/visual material is taken into archives and why and how such texts are thusly utilised as pedagogical tools. For Film Focus he is investigating the way in which film has been incorporated into the formal and informal education sectors, with particular interest in how archive film can be used in film education programmes.
He is presently the Graduate School for Creative Arts and Media Research Scholar with the Dublin Institute of Technology, School of Media (PRTLI).
