The Young Shoots project is progressing well. Our schools are all organising themselves ready to launch their film clubs after half term, we will be supporting Leominister Library to hold two film clubs in their venue and one of our youth clubs has held its first screening of ‘Camp Rock’ to a group of 19 enthusiatic teenage girls!
We have also booked in all of our four village events where we are going to show a film and hold a practical filmmaking workshop for young people. Our next challenge however is to select just one film for 8-12 year olds and one for 13-19 year olds that is going to inspire them to want to part of future screening events in their villages.
We have had some discussions about possible choices and consulted the likes of the BFI’s Watch This list of the top fifty films all children should watch by the time they are fourteen, to ensure that these events don’t become ‘one film wonders’ we are keen to get this right!
Suggestions so far have included:
For 8-12 year olds:
E.T
The Princess Bride – great film but will the title alienate boys?
Coraline
For 13-19 year olds
Juno
Let the Right One In
Persepolis
Any suggestions that fit the brief of being able to attract a crowd and expand our audiences horizons would be most gratefully accepted!
Big Fish is visually stunning, has a big name actor and focuses nicely on relationships with family. Bags of stuff to discuss afterwards!
Thanks for your comment and suggestion of ‘Big Fish’ Rachel. We hadn’t thought that movie; its a good one so I’ll definitely add it our list of possibilities!
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