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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.

Oct 12, 2026

12:30
So sort of give us each of those touch points and then sort of how and why people then get involved and take part.
12:38
So over the years, our programs have evolved and we have we've done a lot of things with a lot of people.
12:44
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.
12:56
Predominantly, our programs divide into two departments, if you like.
13:00
One is a schools, what we call our schools department, and the other, rather creatively, we call our non-schools department.
13:07
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.
13:17
And we go in on a day, which is a normal term time day during school term.

16 MINS LATER

29:38
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.

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