We believe in learning through doing and networks. We create curriculums and training programmes based on application and  ‘action learning’. Interpersonal skills such as consensus building, collaboration and taking criticism are as important in our syllabuses as creative and technical skills. Below are some examples of our film training projects.

(For freelance film education jobs, please see below.)

Do you want to come on one of our training courses?

On Saturdays 21st and 28th February we will be running two one-day viral film-making training courses for Muslim girls as part of the Skills Days run by Skillset. If you are between 14-19 and want to take part, please contact shanti(@)fairkknowledge.co.uk.

Muslims in the Media

This is an ambitious high profile project we are currently running for Waltham Forest Local Authority with a wide range of mainstream media partners, aiming to engage young Muslims and support them in challenging the way mainstream media represents Muslims. You’ll be able to check us out on Facebook soon (13th Feb 2009).

The Sci Files

We create and deliver science communication training for young people. This successful in-house project was launched at the House of Lords. We particularly love making science films with groups who are generally under-represented in science broadcasting, such as girls and ethnic minorities.

I Wish

We ran a fantastic film-making course for Muslim girls (11-19) to express their ‘wishes’ for their future. For the second stage of this inspirational project, the girls will be filming advice from people, mainly Muslim women, who have achieved these dreams, at our Cineforum in March 2009.

Without Limits Film Training

This was a project for Film London and Camden Council to help local young people produce films about the history of the Kings Cross/St Pancra’s area, which were screened as part of the Eurostar Arrivals Festival in November 2007.

Blooming Filmmakers

We trained young people to make films about their lives in Bloomsbury as part of the Bloomsbury Festival sponsored by Allied London, an urban development firm and supported by Goodenough College.

Speculative trainer enquiries

We already have a diverse and ready-to-roll bank of highly skilled freelance filmmaker educators, and not currently hiring. But if you have a clean, current CRB certificate, please feel free to send in a speculative enquiry with a CV to shanti(at)fairknowledge.co.uk. We are working with Muslim youth quite a lot this year (2009), so we’d be delighted to receive applications from experienced filmmakers from Muslim backgrounds.

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities and disabled people, although we also love people not from these demographics :-)