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transferable digital skill-set framework for communities
to create Screen Art stories about their unique people-places relationships
POETIC FILM SCHOOL
INTRODUCTION
Screen skills are now one of today’s main communication tools yet there exists very little by way of education and learning. The ‘SCREENSKILLS Collaborative’ now offers a transferable digital skills framework for communities across the Highlands in response - to attend and to learn new digital skills through ground-breaking Screen Arts training. But that’s just the start…
‘screen skills learnt today will directly shape people’s lives tomorrow'
WHO IS IT NEEDED FOR?
Local Communities
Young People
Adults Facing Challenges
Families
LGBTQIA+
Vulnerable Adults
Those with Learning Disabilities
Well-Being Collaborative
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Future Generations
ISSUES TACKLED
Specialist Transferable Education in Screen Arts
Digital Skills Learning for Real Life Situations
Uncertain Social & Economic Futures
Energy & Environment Change
Diverse Voices & Abilities
Post Covid Response

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Evolving Oral History
‘utilising the latest in mobile technology and the cultural gifts of millennia of human habitation’
‘SCREENSKILLS Collaborative can help tackle various issues around people-place relationships’
DIGITAL SKILLS TRAINING
‘SCREENSKILLS Collaborative’ shows how mobile film technology is now at the level where all-in-one training is now possible. Our 2025 programme includes:

SMARTPHONE FILMMAKING: Introduction

SMARTPHONE FILMMAKING: Intermediate
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COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

‘SCREENSKILLS Collaborative’ is transformative Screen Arts initiative in cross partnership learning sharing a vision for open access Screen Arts based resources which all encourages new stories about more localised people-place themes on our doorstep. The Collaborative includes:

SOCIAL GROUPS & CAUSES

MUSEUMS & HERITAGE ORGANISATIONS
COMMUNITY GROUPS
INDEPENDENT GROUPS
INTEGRATION PROJECTS
LARGE SCALE WORKFORCE PLACEMENTS
SCHOOLS & YOUTH GROUPS

AND MANY MORE …
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'working with various community, social and arts groups this transformative initiative helps people better understand their people-place relationships in the Highlands as voiced through new Screen Arts’
SCREENSKILLS TOOLKITS
‘SCREENSKILLS Collaborative’ can also design and deliver Screen Arts toolkits for those seeking: 

FURTHER EDUCATION
TRAINING PATHWAYS
PLACEMENTS

EMPLOYMENT

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IN-BETWEEN PLACE FILM FESTIVAL
SOCIAL INTEGRATION
Today, the far north Highlands faces many of the same issues around its economy, environment and energy as its did post war. It is vital that large scale projects are integrated within communities - the mortar that holds the bricks together is...
‘leaning and culture, different and shared.'


Getting this embedded is the bond required for meaningful social integration and cultural legacy. Legacies are an often bandied-about word. They are always much more than the tangibles of structures. Learnt skills and wisdoms between local communities and those who arrive to implement large scale projects may even be more important than what’s built on the ground.
NEW NARRATIVES

Much of the narrative around change in the Highlands is often devoid of our human story. Understanding past responses to turbulent periods of change allows us to explore current day themes through collaborative and accessible Screen Arts training, which can help create new narratives, insights and perspectives.
FESTIVAL OF SCREEN ARTS
We support, contribute to and pioneer several festival screening events including:

In-Between Place Film Festival

Highland Climate Festival

Micro-Film Festival

SCREENSKILLS Collaborative festival of events
The Farr Stone Chroniclers proposed Screen Festival

Highland Screen Heritage proposed Screen Festival
THE EVOLUTION OF TRAINING
Poetic Film School’s unique Screen Arts training programme has revealed some remarkable outcomes. We may be better connected digitally today but the physical scapes around us still shape us.
'SCREENSKILLS Collaborative' builds a culture of documented story-telling based on past wisdoms & knowledge, that itself builds on centuries of legacy writing and poetics in the Highlands.
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‘the evolution legacy of our Screen Arts training will lie in the visual record we leave behind’​
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It’s so important to record and document this period in time through creative social integration. The screen skills learnt today will directly shape people's lives tomorrow. The ability to capture this through engaging Screen Art stories, working with host partners, communities and those new to the Highlands, is at the heart of 'SCREENSKILLS Collaborative'.
Poetic Film School offers arrange of Screen Arts masterclass training days and courses
For more information please visit this LINK
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