Community Film Festival

Pupils Premiere Films at City Cinema

Budding Stephen Spielbergs got the chance to see the films they have been busily making over the past few months on the big screen.

Films created by more than 60 children from Sprowston schools were shown at Hollywood Cinema in Norwich recently. It was part of the fourth community film festival, with pupils, friends and family attending.

Organised by Sprowston Community High School (SCHS), the film festival showcased the talents of pupils and the work developed through its specialist performing arts and media status. The theme for this year's event was “East meets East” and the younger pupils were given professional guidance by local filmmaker Robert Vaughan.

Margaret Quigley, arts director at SCHS, said: “I am delighted how far our school community has come in
working together to share and develop film making skills and media literacy. “From learning to make simple claymation figures, students and community members are now experimenting with more in depth media techniques to create green screen effect backgrounds and documentary style films of a high calibre.”

Twelve short films were shown and pupils from the high school gave out their very own awards, presenting all the younger children with certificates celebrating their hard work and creativity. Ms Quigley added: “I'm really proud of all the films produced this year, which show a diverse range of skills and interpretation and make this a truly intergenerational, multicultural project.”

The film festival was first launched in 2005 as a vehicle to share media skills and resources with the wider community and last year was the first time the films were screened at the cinema.

 

 

 

 

Fourth Sprowston Community Film Festival

Students will soon be seeing their film work shown at a major cinema in Norwich. Over sixty young people from five Sprowston schools have been busy making their own short films to show at this years’ Sprowston Community Film Festival. With the theme of “East meets East” set as the starting point for ideas, the pupils have been supported by local filmmaker Robert Vaughan to shoot and create films around this topic.

The project has also inspired contributions from older pupils and adults. Groups from the Sprowston Community High School have been working with both Robert and local animator David Lloyd, and David has also been working with adults from the Sprowston Community Film Group and the Chinese Community Methodist Church on their film, making this a truly intergenerational, multicultural project.

 

The films will be shown at the Film Festival, which is taking place at the Hollywood Cinema, Anglia Square on Thursday 30th April. Doors will open at 6:30pm, the event is free, but entrance is strictly by ticket only. Tickets are being distributed to everyone involved in the project and their families, but a small number of returns may be available from the 27th April.

If you are interested in attending the event, but are not due to receive a ticket, please contact the SCHS office on 01603 485266 and ask to speak to Debbie Jay or Olivia Dean.

Contact Name:

Olivia Dean
Community Education Worker for Media & Performance Art

Sprowston Community High School & Arts College
Cannerby Lane,
Sprowston,
Norwich,
Norfolk. NR7 8NE.

Tel: 01603 485266 Ext. 152

Sprowston’s Fourth Community Film Festival Underway

Planning is now underway for our 4th Community Film Festival which will be held at the Hollywood Cinema on Thursday 30th April. The theme for this year is East Meets East. Film makers, Robert Vaughan and David Lloyd will be working in partnership with Arts staff to develop films with four of our partner schools, students at the High School and members of the community film club. Participants in the film festival will include;

• Sprowston Junior;
• Falcon Junior;
• Hall Road School
• White Woman Lane Junior;
• Sprowston Community High School Year 10 Media students;
• Sprowston Community High School Animation Club;
• Sprowston Community Film & Media Club.

For further details please contact our Community Education Worker Olivia Dean who is co-ordinating the event.