Youth of Bath Set For Free Cinematic Experience When Into Film Festival Comes To Town

Young people all over Bath are being given the opportunity to take part in a memorable and educational cinematic experience as part of the Into Film Festival - the world?s biggest youth film festival - between November 4 and November 21 when it comes to cinemas across the region.

They can enjoy a number of free screenings and events as part of this UK wide Festival that uses the power of film to captivate young minds and bring learning to life. Tickets are available to book now at www.IntoFilm.org/festival

The Into Film Festival, hosted by education charity Into Film and supported by Cinema First and the British Film Institute through Lottery funding, is a major cultural and educational event which will take place across the UK for free as part of an on-going initiative to use the medium of film and filmmaking as a tool of learning. 

The cornerstone of the Festival is the educational power of film, enabling 300,000 young people, age from 5-19 attending the festival to watch, make and learn through and about film. Open to schools, colleges, parents and youth leaders the programme features new and classic films, workshops and Q&A sessions with industry professionals and supported by a range of educational resources to promote discussion and debate around the films. 

Highlights from the programme include a Double Bill screening of Wallace of Gromit classics A Grand Day Out and The Wrong Trousers, A selction of 10 British Council Shorts (primary), as well as a variety of other screenings including, The Two Faces of January, Muppets Most Wanted, Boyhood, Walking With Dinosaurs, The Boxtrolls, Saving Mr Banks, and more

Actor and Into Film supporter Michael Sheen (The Queen, Frost/Nixon, Twilight) commented on the festival; "When you're watching a film it feels like you're being entertained but at the same time it's a window to the world of other cultures, other possibilities. The Into Film Festival is a great thing for young people to go to as together with their peers they can sit in a cinema watching a whole range of films, films that they usually wouldn't have access to or wouldn't choose for themselves, and connect with the film industry through special events, and of course it's all free. So that makes the Into Film Festival totally unique." 

Oscar-nominated actor Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables, Harry Potter) added; "Film is such a fantastic medium, it can bring you to places and show you places...immerse you in a world of stories. Storytelling is the most important thing as it's lasted for so long. It's just another way of telling a story but amazingly compulsive. I find it fascinating, I mean you just have to sit there and it comes to you and if it's part of a free festival... even better."

The Into Film Festival builds on the previous event's success, which saw 200,000 young people attending screenings and events UK-wide. Renamed the Into Film Festival, it encourages young people to learn and develop an interest in cinema, creating the informed film audiences of tomorrow.

Into Film - supported by the BFI with Lottery funding, together with funding from the film industry and a number of other sources - incorporates the legacy and staff of two leading film education charities, FILMCLUB and First Light, building on their experience and success in delivering programmes of significant scale and reach to children and young people across the UK. 

Bookings are now open for the Into Film Festival this year, which takes place between 4-21 November. Teachers and educators can explore the full programme and book for the myriad of screenings, events and workshops that are programmed throughout the country at www.IntoFilm.org/Festival.