Kerry Fox, who starred in Shallow Grave, will give an acting masterclass during the "Right Here Right Now" film festival for young people this week in the North. The five-day festival, which contains a programme of discussions, classes and screenings of shorts and animated films, started in Belfast yesterday. It is also running in Derry.

All events are free and open to the public. The idea is to focus on young people and to explore a number of human-rights issues, such as bullying, racism and cultural identity. At each event the discussion will explore human rights issues through the medium of film.

The event is being run in conjunction with an international conference on human rights, organised by the British Council. Film actors, writers, directors and human-rights activists from around the world will be coming together for the event. The festival is being hosted by Cinemagic, Northern Ireland's International Film Festival for Young People, with the aim of focussing specifically on the rights of the child (see www.cinemagic.org.uk).

Dublin hosts a different kind of media studies session in the National Museum at Collins Barrack next Saturday. "Film on the revised Leaving Certificate English syllabus" will be addressed by Irish Times film critic Hugh Linehan. The event, aimed at teachers, is organised by TAME (Teachers' Association for Media Education). It starts at 2 p.m. and it will be followed by the association's AGM. For more information contact the chairwoman of TAME, Mary Gillan (email: mbg@indigo.ie; tel: (01) 821 3685).