*FREE FILM MAKING WORKSHOPS youth club & youth theatre*FREE FILM MAKING WORKSHOPS youth club & youth theatre*FREE FILM MAKING WORKSHOPS youth club & youth theatre*FREE FILM MAKING WORKSHOPS youth club & youth theatre
*small fee for Animation Clubs
About Us
OUR FILM CLUBS
- Kent Film Foundation uses Film and Arts to build confidence and aspirations in young people.
- We also use film clubs as a social environment to create safe spaces to nurture new interests and talents.
- Often children have skills they are totally unaware of that can be used for a career based in film, media, arts, theatre, music and any digital medium in many cases where schools and teachers have no idea their skills might fit.
- With all arts based jobs and careers, academia is not always relevant to the skills needed and we have launched many young people into worthwhile career paths where they thought they had no opportunities open to them.
- We also use our film clubs to build on confidence to engage all kinds of working futures where young people have gone on to become electricians, veterinary assistants, plumbers or simply re-engage in education purely because of their experience at one of our film clubs.
Fun Experience with Filmmakers
All our film mentors are from professional arts and media backgrounds. We also invite special speakers from the world of film/media/theatre/arts from both in front of the camera and behind. Guest speakers have included world class arts practitioners as well as BAFTA/Oscar winners from the world of film and television who are successful but come from humble beginnings.
Range of Film Clubs
Our current clubs include:
The Girl's Film Club (boys welcome see below) (ages 13-19)
The LGBT Youth Film & Social Club (Ages 15 - 18)
YOUTH THEATRE (ages 13 - 19)
In Association with The Animation Company we also offer:
Saturday Stop-Frame Animation Lego Club (Ages 5-12 )
Young People's Animation Club (11-16).
History
How it all began
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 herself, 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 charity has an excellent and proven track record in achieving its outcomes. Most recently receiving a prestigious nomination in the Colyer Fergusson 50th Anniversary Awards in the category "Unlocking Opportunities"
film clubs
FREE GIRLS FILM CLUB
WEDNESDAYS
(Term Time Only)
Girls Aged 13 - 19
No Film Skills Needed
10 Cliff Street, Ramsgate CT11 9HS
5.30 - 7.00pm
(Boys with film skills & genuine interest in film career welcome)
FREE Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans Youth Film & Social Club
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MONDAYS
(Term Time Only)
Ages 15 - 19
Venue Tom Thumb Theatre
2A Eastern Esplanade, Margate CT9 2LB
5.30 - 7.00pm
LGBT youth club
FREE Youth Theatre
WEDNESDAYS
For Youth Aged 13-19
No experience needed
10 Cliff Street, Ramsgate CT11 9HS
5.30 - 7.00pm
Kids Stop-Frame Lego Animation Club
SATURDAYS
1 - 5pm
Ages 5 - 11
10 Cliff Street, Ramsgate CT11 9HS
Small Fee inc Concessions
(In association with the
Animation Company)
Animation Club 11-16yrs
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WEDNESDAYS
4 .00 - 5.30PM
Ages 11 - 16
10 Cliff Street, Ramsgate CT11 9HS
Small Fee inc Concessions
(In association with the
Animation Company)
Special Event Screenings
Regular special events screening. events featuring guest speakers.
See Events Page
special event screenings
SPECIAL SCREENING - SUFFRAGETTE HOSTED BY THE GIRLS' FILM CLUB all welcome Sunday December 8th 11am Granville Cinema, Ramsgate. Free
SPECIAL SCREENING WITH A PANEL DISCUSSION FOLLOWING THE FILM: "Why it is important to vote".
SCREENING & AFTER FILM PANEL OF SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDING A MEMBER OF THE CAST OF THE FILM
VARIOUS OTHER SCREENINGS COMING UP INCLUDING GUEST SPEAKERS CONFIRMED SHORTLY (WATCH THIS SPACE)
VENUES WILL BE DIFFERENT FOR EACH SCREENING AND CONFIRMED LATER
To Be Confirmed in October
FREE THEATRE/FILM CLUBS
Youth Film/Theatre Clubs and Regular Film Screenings
HUGE Thanks to current Funders for supporting our Charity
Supporters from over the past 24 months
Some of Our Past/Present Partners
Some of Our Past/Present Partners (continued)
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