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Cinemagic Film Festival moves online ahead of 31st edition this October
16 Sep 2020 : News Desk
Cinemagic Film Festival
This year’s Cinemagic International Film Festival for Young People will present a month-long programme of exciting online opportunities for children, families, young adults and young filmmakers.

The Festival will offer a small series of in-cinema film screenings in support of #BackToCinemaNI to encourage audiences back to the ‘big screen’ experience in a safe and informed way.

The 2020 Cinemagic Belfast Festival line-up includes exciting virtual events with Saoirse Ronan, Mark Kermode, Dermot O’Leary, Mark Gatiss, Anna Smith, Oliver Jeffers, Robin Shaw, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, BAFTA, Aardman Animations, and many more Film and TV luminaries. 

A Virtual Reality – it has been an extremely difficult year for the film exhibition sector due to the ongoing effects of COVID-19 and the uncertainty this has brought with it. As a result, the festival made the decision to move the majority of the 2020 programme online.

“We are excited to present this year’s Virtual Cinemagic Film Festival, said Joan Burney Keatings, Cinemagic CEO. “After months of hard work amid a difficult landscape for everyone, we are proud to share an uplifting and inspiring programme for all ages to enjoy. As a leader in the field of youth film exhibition and engagement with the screen industry, we are providing a unique window to the world and celebrating diverse stories from all walks of life. With continued support from our funders and partners Cinemagic is able to motivate young audiences, nurture skills and develop tomorrow’s creative workforce. I encourage festival supporters and new audiences to get involved and try something new.”

Festival goers will have the chance to participate in an extensive range of online activities from viewing new World Cinema, to Industry masterclasses, a ‘Talking Pictures’ strand with screenings and filmmaker Q&As, Cinemagic Young Filmmaker and Film Jury panels for young film critics.

An international programme of new feature films will be accessible from Cinemagic’s new digital streaming platform and 23 feature films and 8 short film packages will be available for children, families and young film fans to enjoy throughout October. Click here for a trailer of the film programme.

QFT Player will house Altogether Now! an inclusive and accessible film strand supported by Film Hub NI part of the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN), exploring themes of disability, difference, belonging and inclusion. The programme will also include the creative work of both physically and learning-disabled filmmakers. This programme strand will also include online demonstrations and live performances in disciplines including Krump, Hip Hop, Visual Vernacular (VV) and Football Trickery.

Cinemagic Young Filmmaker celebrates the creative work of Young Filmmakers, 25 and under, from across the UK and Ireland. After receiving a record number of entries in 2020, Cinemagic will showcase over 150 of the best shorts on QFT Player before announcing this year’s winning films during an online virtual awards ceremony on Cinemagic’s YouTube Channel Cinemagic TV. 

HOME, in partnership with Future Screens NI, is a compilation of shorts made by 12-25yr olds who benefited from Cinemagic mentoring in the summer and were tasked with creating films to share their experiences of life spent at home during lockdown. The shorts will feature filmmakers from Northern Ireland, USA and Canada.

The UK’s leading film critic Mark Kermode will present an online version of his annual Cinemagic Film ‘In Conversation’ event and the ‘Girls on Film’ Podcast – the all-female film review podcast hosted by top film journalist Anna Smith returns for a virtual edition in 2020.

The programme includes a number of exciting Q&As, talks and webinars with esteemed industry leaders. For children and families there are special events with BAFTA, illustrator and animation director Robin Shaw (The Tiger Who Came to Tea, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt) and visual artist and children’s author Oliver Jeffers (Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth, Lost and Found). Cinemagic patrons Saoirse Ronan, Dermot O’Leary and Saoirse-Monica Jackson will also be taking part in virtual events to inspire and motivate young audiences. Northern Ireland broadcaster, producer and DJ David ‘Rigsy’ O’Reilly will be joining the Cinemagic line-up to discuss the creative process behind his forthcoming debut novel, 'Lottie the Raven' inspired by his passion for football and a lifelong love of books.

Creativity Corner Workshops for children will include Model Making with Aardman Animations as well as creative tutorials in Voice Acting, Prop Making, and Puppets. Learn how to make Halloween Arts & Crafts Scary Masks and Witches Fingers, try SFX Make-up and enjoy Halloween inspired Music and Storytelling sessions.

Career Crafts Workshops and tutorials for 18+ year olds will focus on Costume Design with Ros Little (Poldark, Horrible Histories, All Creatures Great and Small), Art Direction & Production Design with Nick Palmer (Fighting with My Family, The Hours, Eastern Promises, Mamma Mia!), Broadcast Journalism and Presenting with Holly Hamilton (BBC), ‘From Idea to Pitch’: Developing a Script Idea with BBC Writersroom and Broadcast News & War Reporting with John Irvine (ITV). The Maestro Sessions is a programme strand dedicated to film music and music composition. Participants can join online seminars with some of the industry’s best film and television composers including Debbie Wiseman OBE (Wolf Hall, Dickensian), John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek) and John Lunn (Downton Abbey, Bleak House). Film Music and Directing will also come under the spotlight with a Q&A from Director Joe Dante (Gremlins).

Film Education programme opportunities for pre-school and primary to post-primary and third level students include workshops in Drama, Science, History, Literature, Arts & Crafts, TV Presenting, Film Classification, Gaming, iPad Animation, SFX Make-Up, Podcasting, Photo-Journalism, Film Analysis and Film Reviewing. All activities are designed to support and encourage student discussion, debate and critical thinking.

Although the majority of the programme is online the festival is fully supportive and backing Film Hub NI’s #BackToCinemaNI campaign, aimed at encouraging audiences back to ‘The Big Screen’ cinema experience in a safe and informed way. Ten films will be screened in Belfast between Queen’s Film Theatre, ODEON and Strand Arts Centre. Highlights include a preview of new animation Elfkins: Baking a Difference and a preview of new family adventure Dino Dana: The Movie.

For further information and booking visit www.cinemagic.org.uk

Online Films in the public film programme will be available to book from 1st October. All other events will be available to book from 18th September.





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