For Adult Learners

Screen Education Edinburgh is pleased to announce our next Adult Learning Programme, starting April 2020, offering creative opportunities to anyone over the age of 21.

If you have a desire to learn more about filmmaking, these courses offer a perfect introduction for beginners and anyone seeking to develop their creative voice.

All our courses are created to be affordable and are open to everyone, at a low cost of £150 with 25% concessions available to those in receipt of Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, Income Support, Working Tax Credit, Pension Credit, Housing Benefit or Council Tax Benefit.

For more information on each course and the booking process, please see below.

INTRODUCTION TO SHORT FILMMAKING – BEGINNERS

A weekend course on how to write, direct, shoot and edit your own short film that offers an opportunity to learn new skills and to begin developing your own voice through one of the most powerful and far reaching storytelling tools in the world. Read more

Introduction to Screenwriting

Learn how to write for film on our 10 week Introduction to Short Screenwriting evening course. Designed for people of all levels of experience who want to learn the craft of screenwriting, we’ll take you from a one-line idea to the development of a complete and polished short film script. Read more

INTRODUCTION TO SHORT FILMMAKING – INTERMEDIATE

This course will enable you to develop your filmmaking skills and add to your portfolio. Running across six weeks, you’ll learn more advanced techniques on Screenwriting, Directing, Camera, Sound, Lighting, Editing and Producing. Read more

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Tracks

A man on the run from the police finds shelter in the memories of the woman he loved.

Fixing the Pieces

Tom and his father sit at the dining room table as he tries to bond with Tom by teaching him how to solve a rubix cube. This film follows the pair as Tom grows up and further away from his father. A portrait of the relationship between a father and son through the decades.

Black Forest

A young woman's body is found in the woods by police. As the best friend of the victim is shutting herself off from the world in her grief, the killer comes for her and those closest to her

Consience

When a young woman finds a wallet in the street she chooses to take it and run. After a chase on foot she may find herself the hardest to deal with.

Our mission

Scotland's oldest filmmaking organisation, Screen Education Edinburgh (SEE) is dedicated to making film accessible to all. We develop skills, knowledge and passion in filmmaking for young people, schools, adult learners, communities and independent filmmakers, through our education, production and training programmes.

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Learning Projects

We specialise in working with organisations to train, support and develop their service users or staff to create their own content.

Cashback for Creativity

From 2012-20, Screen Education Edinburgh ran CashBack, a high quality learning experience that offered a pathway of progression in film for young people aged 10-24, living in areas of deprivation who have little or no access to creative opportunities.