Over the next three weeks, hundreds of thousands of children and teenagers will be experiencing something that may change their lives forever: a film. That’s thanks to the first ever National Youth Film Festival, which is serving up a schedule of screenings, film-making workshops and Q&A sessions to five to 19-year-olds in classrooms and cinemas across the country. Funded by the British Film Institute (BFI), the festival will screen 133 films, including silent cinema, foreign drama, animation and cutting-edge documentaries, in the hope of creating a new generation of passionate cinema-goers and makers. That’s both for our children’s sake, because cinema can be a life-long source of inspiration and solace, and for the nation’s sake: the British film industry contributes around £3.8bn to the GDP every year.
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