Lights…Camera…Action For Children
We were approached by Action For Children who wanted to highlight the challenges that children and young people face and their long term approach to helping overcome those challenges. Along with DCM we came up with a free season of three great films about transformation: STAND BY ME, JUNO and SON OF RAMBOW screening on the first Sunday of each month in March, April and May 2009.
These films were chosen because they show how children and young people are transformed by their experiences, and how essential it is that they get the support they need.
It’s an approach Action for Children puts into practice every day. By being there for as long as it takes, the charity has managed to help hundreds of thousands of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people over the past 140 years.
- Sunday 1 March STAND BY ME
- Sunday 4 April JUNO
- Sunday 3 May SON OF RAMBOW
FREE TICKETS
You can claim two free tickets for any of the screenings. All you have to do is download one voucher and take it along to your local Picturehouse cinema in advance of the screening. The cinema will exchange the voucher for a ticket to the next scheduled film. And then settle back and enjoy a great film!
The three films will be screening in the following Picturehouse cinemas at these times:
- Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton, London – 12 noon
- Harbour Lights Picturehouse, Southampton – 11am
- Greenwich Picturehouse, London – 12 noon
- Clapham Picturehouse, London – 12 noon
- Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool – 12 noon
- City Screen Picturehouse, York – 12 noon
- Phoenix Picturehouse, Oxford – 12 noon
- Cameo Picturehouse, Edinburgh – 12 noon
STAND BY ME
Experience, friends and time can do amazing things to us, as Gordie finds out in this classic film when he attempts to overcome the death of his brother by setting out with his friends Chris, Teddy and Vern to find his body in the woods.
JUNO
When Juno MacGuff finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with her friend Bleeker, her life is turned upside down. But, with the help and unwavering support of her family and friends, Juno comes through this life-changing experience.
SON OF RAMBOW
Far from being about a child’s re-make of Rambo, Son of Rambow explores how society’s conventions can separate two friends. Will and Carter learn the hard way that without being there for each other, the challenges of Will’s tough Plymouth Brethren background would just be too much.
