Welcome
FREE FILM WORKSHOPS & SCREENINGS
All film workshops are currently postponed if you are interested in our online workshops email kentfilmfoundation@gmail.com
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).
film clubs all currently postponed
Free Girl's Film Club (boys welcome, see below for details)
Free Girl's Film Club (boys welcome, see below for details)
Free Girl's Film Club (boys welcome, see below for details)
WEDNESDAYS
(Term Time Only)
Girls Aged 13 - 19
No Film Skills Needed
5.30 - 7.00pm
CURRENTLY ON PAUSE
FREE Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans Youth Film & Social Club
Free Girl's Film Club (boys welcome, see below for details)
Free Girl's Film Club (boys welcome, see below for details)
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MONDAYS
(Term Time Only)
Ages 15 - 19
CURRENTLY ON PAUSE
6.00 - 7.00pm
LGBT youth club
FREE Youth Theatre
Free Girl's Film Club (boys welcome, see below for details)
FREE Youth Theatre
WEDNESDAYS
(Term Time Only)
For Youth Aged 13-19
No experience needed
CURRENTLY ON PAUSE
5.30 - 7.00pm
Kids Stop-Frame Lego Animation Club
Kids Stop-Frame Lego Animation Club
FREE Youth Theatre
SATURDAYS
1 - 5pm
Ages 5 - 11
CURRENTLY ON PAUSE
Small Fee inc Concessions
(In association with the
Animation Company)
Animation Club 11-16yrs
Kids Stop-Frame Lego Animation Club
Special Event Screenings
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WEDNESDAYS
4 .00 - 5.30PM
Ages 11 - 16
CURRENTLY ON PAUSE
Small Fee inc Concessions
(In association with the
Animation Company)
Special Event Screenings
Kids Stop-Frame Lego Animation Club
Special Event Screenings
Regular special events screening. events featuring guest speakers.
See Events Page
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 entry level film industry jobs, 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.
Building confidence has also resulted in young people merely looking towards work as a positive part of life in itself and by the experience in arts projects in general, members have gone on to look at training in all kinds of trades and not just the arts. We have inspired as many young plumbers, veterinary nurses and electricians as we have film practitioners.
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"
Aiming High. A film made by young filmmakers about Ian Payne wheelchair tennis player.
special event screenings
Please join us for a very special 30th ANNIVERSARY screening of Jane Campion's early film, An Angel at My Table. View over the weekend 27th / 28th June and then join us with the film's star Kerry Fox and producer Bridget Ikin for a Q&A/ discussion Sunday evening of the 28th June 10pm. To book a ticket go to this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-angel-at-my-table-30th-anniversary-online-screening-and-qa-tickets-110459029932?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
GRANVILLE CINEMA RAMSGATE
Date to be confirmed but all Doc Club screenings are on the last Sunday of the month. Currently postponed until further notice due to coronavirus.
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 & Upcoming Partners
Some of Our Past/Present Partners (continued)
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