The Cinemagic Film and Television Festival returns to the silver screen for its 25th Anniversary Edition, from 3rd-17th October, with new film previews from around the world, CineSeekers film review panels, film & television workshops and a film education programme in partnership with George Best Belfast City Airport, to motivate, educate and inspire young people.
The October programme features special gala screenings: the UK premieres of ‘Maya The Bee Movie’ and ‘The Legend of Longwood’, and previews of’ Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’, and ‘The Book of Life’. The weekend cinema programme (3rd-5th and 11th-12th October) features 14 other special previews from around the world including the Brazilian animation, ‘The Boy and the World’ (Northern Ireland Premiere), the new German adaptation of ‘The Little Match Girl’ (UK Premiere), the Spanish comic book adaptation, ‘Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang’, and the French/Chinese heart-warming adventure, ‘The Nightingale’.
The festival is searching for a panel of enthusiastic ‘CineSeekers’ young film reviewers, to view and judge the in-competition films. The CineSeekers will get the chance to spend a weekend enjoying world cinema and will hear from filmmakers including German director, Veit Helmer, who will present the UK Premiere of ‘Fiddlesticks’. The jury will announce the winning films of the festival on the closing night.
Teachers can introduce learning through film into the classroom with the exciting film education programme featuring interactive discussions, demonstrations and workshops from BBFC, Aardman Animations, Oscar nominated Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, Flickerpix, Young Irish Filmmakers, voice actor Marc Silk (‘Johnny Bravo’, ‘Star Wars Episode 1’) and Children’s Books Ireland with Fermanagh born author Nigel McDowell.
The world of animation will come alive with Junior Talent Lab masterclasses in stop motion animation with Flickerpix in association with Belfast Photo Festival Youth Edition and model making with animator Tim Allen (‘Frankenweenie’, ‘Corpse Bride’).
Budding filmmakers can enter the AES Cinemagic Young Filmmaker Competition and new for this year is the ‘we are the energy’ category for films about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths). There will be more cinematic fun for mini film fans on board The Belfast Barge with early years drama workshops with Debutots, pre-school entertainment and workshops along with screenings of ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’.
For more information/booking details and to view the Festival Programme online, visit www.cinemagic.org.uk.
