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James Walker
Co-founder and Director of Young Film Academy and Magma Pictures, the UK's leading filmmaking organisation for young people.
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Oct 12, 2026
How Filmmaking Builds Confidence and Resilience in Young People with James Walker (Young Film Academy)
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12:30Mark TaylorHOST
So sort of give us each of those touch points and then sort of how and why people then get involved and take part.
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12:38James WalkerGUEST
So over the years, our programs have evolved and we have we've done a lot of things with a lot of people.
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12:44James WalkerGUEST
I mean, we've actually we've helped in our 22 years, more than 275,000 young people make films in that time, which fills Wembley three times, which is a kind of bonkers thought.
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13:00James WalkerGUEST
One is a schools, what we call our schools department, and the other, rather creatively, we call our non-schools department.
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13:07James WalkerGUEST
What that means is our schools department goes into about 200 schools a year, predominantly in the UK, but some within Europe and some outside of Europe.
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29:38Mark TaylorHOST
But I guess the social skills, the working together, all that sort of thing just literally takes off when you're in that kind of environment.