Kilmarnock’s Odeon cinema will be hosting free screenings for local schoolchildren as part of National Schools Film Week.
The event will continue from Friday, October 30, to Friday, November 6, and include such recent favourites as Wall-E, Coraline, A Night at the Museum 2, Persepolis, Star Trek, Bolt and the Secret of Moonacre.
This is the 14th running year in which National Schools Film Week has been held, and is now the world’s largest film festival for young people. A record number of children attended last year’s film week in over 500 cinemas across the country.
This year, the theme for the Film Week is ‘Creativity and Diversity’, and on feature will be current and forthcoming films designed to offer diverse viewpoints on challenging issues.
Oscar winning director Danny Boyle commented, “I’m very proud to be a patron of Film Education and National Schools Film Week. I think it’s important that people go to the cinema as soon as possible in their lives and keep going. We’ll have a much better film industry the more people go to the cinema. More people are now making films about their own country.”
