Free Summer Film Festival For Ealing

Friday 11th and Saturday 12th August on Ealing Green

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A free film festival is happening on Ealing Green this Friday and Saturday to celebrate the area’s rich cinematic heritage.

The event orgasinsed by GSM London, an independent business school with campuses in Greenford and Greenwich , has been made possible by a crowdfunding campaign on the 'Spacehive' platform that raised over £4,000.

The Film Festival will be held this Friday (11th August) and Saturday (12th August) on Ealing Green. It will include screenings of the classic Ealing comedy 'The Ladykillers' alongside the more recent Hollywood hit 'Dreamgirls'. The event is being supported by 'Make it Ealing' - the area's Business Improvement District (BID) partnership.

Hope Flynn, Lecturer at GSM London, said:

"I am so pleased that we are able to do something like this for our community. Free film showings are a great way for people to have a shared experience and build new connections. It's particularly good to be able to celebrate Ealing's cinematic history by showing the Ladykillers, alongside Dreamgirls, a favourite of our staff and students."

Christy Traore, Executive Dean at GSM London, said:

"We have a very different type of student body to most traditional universities. Almost all of our students come to us with a lot of life experience, often having been out of formal education for extended periods. They are entrepreneurial and keen to get cracking on putting what they learn with us into practice, not simply sitting in lecture halls and carrying out written assignments.

"This is why we are exploring new ideas like crowdfunding in the curriculum. As the experience of the Ealing Free Film Festival has shown, the opportunities for students to quickly develop business plans, attract investment and put ideas into action are immense. Over the coming months, we will follow up the success of this campaign by developing ways for students to gain academic credits by running their own crowdfunding campaigns for projects that have a positive community impact."

To learn more about the EFFF initiative and to donate, click here and follow via Twitter @Ealing_FFF

 

10th August 2017

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