*FREE FILM MAKING WORKSHOPS youth club & older people

Kent Film Foundation began as a not-for-profit arm of a film production company based in Thanet, Kent an area of high deprivation and where young people also suffer from "Poverty of Opportunity". A group of filmmakers attached a training element to a series of feature film shoots. This successfully fed talented young people through and into film school, universities and drama schools for those interested in careers in media. None of them had thought about what kind of work they might do and a number of them had little academic ability and for this reason the clubs also inspire young people to get more engaged with their local community and find jobs doing something they enjoy. 

This inspired one of the filmmakers who had also grown up in poverty, into founding Kent Film Foundation in to an organisation with charitable status in the hope of hiring professional filmmakers to mentor young people in film workshops that would be FREE to participants.

Since its inception the organisation has run regular film clubs  as well as one-off individual programmes such as "Autism in the Frame" for youth on the spectrum, "Love Shouldn't Hurt" where Dover Youth Theatre made a film aimed at teenage girls, supported by Oasis Domestic Abuse Service and "Aiming High/" a short film made by youth with disabilities about young paralympian hopefuls.

We have also been commissioned to run programmes for various disengaged youth including our highly successful summer school for young offenders and those in danger of offending.