For Schools

Your Take

Your Take is a free online filmmaking course for young people living in the Edinburgh and Lothians, as well as any family members or guardians they share their home with. All of our course materials are curriculum linked, also making it a great resource for teachers and their pupils working remotely. Read more

Our Edinburgh 2019-2020

The Edinburgh City Film Education Programme develops a diverse range of primary, secondary and special school teachers and pupils across the City of Edinburgh, including filmmaking projects on the theme of social justice and bespoke CLPL to teachers in filmmaking, watching, understanding and film literacy. Read more

Edinburgh & Lothians Schools Film Competition

Edinburgh & Lothians Schools Film Competition is open to all pupils in nursery, primary and secondary education within the City of Edinburgh, East, West and Midlothian. The competition sees selected films sharing the festival limelight with leading filmmakers from across the world. Read more

CLPL For Media Studies Teachers

Screen Education Edinburgh delivers filmmaking CLPL for Edinburgh’s Media Studies teachers, supporting their development in filmmaking understanding, knowledge and skills, with a key focus on their development of technical and production skills to enhance their ability to support students towards National 4, 5 and Higher qualifications. Read more

Latest

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.

Accessibility

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Screen Education Edinburgh is a small organisation doing big things to make film accessible for all, no matter their background, ability or financial circumstances.

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Our story

SEE was originally known as Pilton Video, which was founded in 1981 to work exclusively in North Edinburgh to develop people, support the work of local organisations, and be at the heart of community development through film education and production.

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Tell the relevant, inspiring parts of how you started, where you are today and any major milestones

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What you're all about -- but write to inform and inspire site visitors, not for yourselves

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.