Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Sarah Polley Talks 'Stories We Tell'


Writer-director-actress Sarah Polley talks about her memoir "Stories We Tell," which explores her family mysteries.

Explore...

Why Are Wong Kar-Wei Films so Dreamy?

Documentary Cinema

Film: camera shots examples

Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article

Vertigo video essay - cinematic influence

Mastering the Movie Colour Palette: del Toro

How to write scene transitions

Stories We Tell - 5 frames analysis

Fallen Angels: A Wong Kar Wai Masterpiece

Pan's Labyrinth

New...

E-Safety

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

Enrichment Opportunities (Clubs)

Bronze DofE Enrolment Letter 2026-2027

Local Governing Body Information

Duke of Edinburgh Portal

Hartismere Technical Theatre

School Policies

Discover...

ZEN Polley GCE The Stories We Tell Documentary Film Studies Examinations British Do The Right Thing Under The Skin Design Film Independent SOTD Pan's Labyrinth Spike Lee Governance Extra-Curricular Local Governing Body GCSE Coursework Statutory Information Yimou Applications

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...