We’re running a scheme in Herefordshire where we are supporting schools to joing the FILMCLUB network and are also offering them some practical filmmaking sessions. See our post ‘Young Shoots schools update’ to see which films our schools have been screening, you might get some good ideas (should you need them!).

Thanks Karen (Young Shoots Project Coordinator)

Your idea about private screenings is also great – I’ll get in touch with the independent / multiplex cinemas nearby and see what they can offer. Thanks.

The club now runs after school on my day off so I’m no longer involved, but watching films is combined with hands-on film-making activities. they’re currently in the middle of a South Korean New Wave season. Probably not suitable for your kids!

Somehow I’d avoided hearing about filmclub.org, so that’s a useful heads-up. Thanks.

With regard to cinema visits, private screenings are great. We’re close to The Showroom, Sheffield’s independent cinema, and we’ve had screenings of set-films for Film Studies open only to our students, and it cost us nothing other than the normal entrance fee. I don’t know how close you are to an independent cinema with an education department like that, but I’d guess even a multiplex might be prepared to reduce rates from their normal private screening fees for an educational visit.