Workshop | KIDS KINO PROJECT

This October, Kids Kino Project will be running workshops and a film screening at the lovely St Paul’s Adventure Playground.

Come along to St Paul’s on Friday 11th October 4pm – 6pm and experience film, photography, shadow portraits and play. We will also be screening the beautiful animation Ponyo.

Free entry, all ages welcome. See you there!

Autumn Kids Kino Workshops at St Paul’s Adventure Playground

We’re currently planning another trip for April this year, warming up with a screening of the gorgeous Red Balloon (KKP crowd favourite!) at St Pauls Adventure Playground here in Bristol. Free entry, all ages!

We’ll also be hosting a film making workshop aimed at 8-15 year olds.

Now that we’re safely back in Kathmandu, here’s the first of our back-log of updates from our time in the Dhading region. A lot happened, with 6.5 screenings and 2 workshops conducted in 7 days throughout 4 different communities as well as hikes, swims and plenty of spider watching.

Showing the Red Balloon at our second Sukaura screening

Here’s a look at our work in the two schools in the largest communities we visited, Khahare and Sukaura. We conducted filmmaking workshops in both schools, as well as two screenings in each, although the first screening at Khahare school was a small screening inside a classroom, showing just a few shorts plus the films that the students had made earlier that day.

Sukaura students interviewing the most enthusiastic headmaster in the world

We kicked things off in Sukaura school with workshops for about 30 kids, split into 3 groups, with each group being given a camera to work with. We set them a list of topics to make short films/interviews on:

Tell us a joke or a funny story
Tell us about the day the earthquake struck
Show us around your school
How is your life different now compared to before the earthquake?
What are your dreams for the future?

After a bit of help with translation the kids ran off excitedly to make their films, while we set about preparing for that evening’s screening. When the workshop time was up we hurried home for a quick spell of editing to sort through the films and select the best to screen back to the kids that night before our chosen feature, The Jungle Book.

Screening The Jungle Book at Sukaura School

We returned to Sukaura a few days later for a second screening, this time playing The Red Balloon and How To Train Your Dragon.

On our last evening in the valley we had our second screening at Khahare on a grander outdoor scale, screening the epic (2 hrs :40!) and wonderful Taare Zameen Par.