In July 2011, the european commission published an invitation to tender for a european-scale experts’ Study on film literacy in Europe, covering all EU and EEA nations, and asking for evidence-based recommendations to inform policy making in
the forthcoming creative Europe framework. The tender was won by a consortium of UK and wider european partners, led by the British Film Institute.
This report forms the Executive Summary of a fuller report, to be published in early 2013. The terms of reference for the survey included a definition of film literacy, later
amended, as follows: the tender specified coverage of the formal, informal, and audio-visual sectors in film education (but not including Higher education).
Our keynote throughout this research has been a belief that core to film education
is an adaptability – across genres, national cinemas, industrial contexts; across platforms; across school subjects and disciplines; and across education settings –
in the classroom, after school, and outside school. We intend to make this adaptability – its translatability – into its key strength, and into a funding principle.