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Film Title 3 To see all the Story Bee activities and associated films visit www.leedsfilm.com or scan the QR Code. 30 March - 13All April dates and times can2020 be found on pages 5 & 6 www.leedsfilm.com
1 UK’s First Children’s Cinema! We are 21! Film Info and we’re thrilled to return with the UK’s Where BBFC exists, it is indicated next to the film: largest family film event. For 2020 we have turned the Carriageworks Theatre into the UK’s first Children’s Cinema. Join us between Mon 6 - Mon 13 April and experience a world of film like never before! Where films are not classified by the BBFC, the Film Festival has recommended its own rating and age suitability. See Every page here has a unique QR Code which will website for up-to-date ratings. take you to leedsfilm.com where you can discover the full programme. For more details about film content and recommended ages, go to leedsfilm.com or ring the Leeds Young Film team on Make sure you sign up to our social to 0113 378 5999. catch updates and exclusives. Children under 12 years old must be accompanied by an See you at LYFF2020! adult in the cinema. We are not responsible for anyone left Debbie & The Team alone in the cinema or any belongings taken into the cinema.
@leedsyoungfilm #LYFF2020 Venues leedsfilm.com Carriageworks Theatre The Electric Press, 3 Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 3AD TICKETS 0113 376 0318 & PASSES Leeds Art Gallery The Headrow, Leeds, Carriageworks Theatre LS1 3AA Film Screenings 0113 378 5350 Auditorium £3.30 Studio £2.20 Leeds Town Hall Family pass (max 5 people) for The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AD all films from Mon 6 - Thu 9 Apr £20.00 0113 234 8080 Special Events Kirkgate Market The Night Zookeeper FREE but places must be booked in advance Vicar Lane, Leeds, LS2 7HY BAFTA Kids Events FREE but places must be booked in advance 0113 378 1950 Meet the Aardman Modelmaker £3.30 or FREE with Aardman workshop ticket Cineworld Leeds & Minecraft Workshop & White Rose Shopping Climate Filmmaking 14 - 19 £7.70 per child Centre All Other Workshops £5.50 per child White Rose Shopping Centre, VR Family Cinema FREE but places must be booked in advance Dewsbury Rd, Leeds, LS11 8LU Some workshops require an adult to accompany the child, in which case the adult 0333 003 3444 goes free and does not require a separate ticket. See website for details. Workshops must be booked through City Centre Box Office by phone or in person or online at leedsfilm.com City Centre Box Office Leeds Art Gallery 0113 376 0318 Film Screenings (all tickets) £2.20 Leeds Town Hall, Lower Access Central Court Events FREE Drop-in The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AD Cineworld Leeds & All ticket prices include a 10% booking fee. White Rose Shopping Centre Tickets can be bought from the City Centre Box Office (10am – 6pm, Film Screenings (all tickets) Mon – Sat) via telephone or in person or online at leedsfilm.com via cineworld.co.uk only £2.50 (apart from Cineworld Leeds screenings, which are only available from Central Atrium Events FREE Drop-in cineworld.co.uk). Tickets can be collected from City Centre Box Office up to the day of 2 the event or from the venue 30 mins prior to the event. Carriageworks STORY Theatre Mon 6 - Thu 9 April WORLD Tickets £3.30 each including FREE activity. Buy a family pass and see as many Story World films as you like for just £20!
Every day from 9:30am - 2pm from Mon 6 - Thu 9 April, Story World is run by Story your little ones can come along and join Story Bees to Bees who run story-centred create a magical Story World where they can work with creative play sessions for others or on their own to make enchanted creatures and children. other artworks based on the films showing each morning. www.storybees.co.uk
The Elfkins With eight films to choose from including magical talking bears in The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily, a modern take on the Elves and the Shoemaker in The Elfkins and a journey into the world of fairy tales in The Lunnis, there are some wonderful stories to delight and inspire children of all ages. Shorts for Wee Ones is a perfect introduction to the world of cinema for the very young.
The Lunnis
scan me! Story World has eight films, all with free activities. Full programme on pages 6 & 7.
Find out more at bit.ly/2T9u1yZ or Captain Sabrertooth & the Magic Diamond scan the QR Code. 3 Reel Kids includes brand new films from around the world that you won’t get to see anywhere else as well as recent films you may have missed and a rare chance to see your favourite classic films on the big screen. Tickets start at just £2.20 (inc booking fee) and you can get a family pass for up to 5 people for just £20, which lets you watch as many films as you want between Mon 6 - Thu 9 April in the Carriageworks.
Journey through brand The Club of Ugly Children new adventures of hand-picked films from around the world!
Our programme reflects our passionate intention to make sure there is a balance of filmmakers’ work in our festivals, ensuring that we get to see a wealth of stories, not just those of the few. Highlights include the new documentaries 2040 and The Arctic Camels, multi-award winning drama Romy’s Salon and youth activism film Rocca Changes the World. Our archive programme includes a 50th anniversary screening of The Railway Children and a sing-a-long to The Greatest Showman. Harry Potter Day Revisit the magic of Harry Potter with the chance to see the first two films Romy’s Salon on the big screen on Sunday 12 April. Come in costume to be in with the chance to win some fabulous prizes and take part in the FREE activities. Tickets are just £3.30 each or £5.50 for both films.
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Too Far Away scan me! For full programme see Carriageworks Theatre pages 6 & 7. Mon 6 - Mon 13 April See the whole programme at bit.ly/3c2aNUD or scan Tickets from £2.20 the QR code. Family pass just £20 4 JOIN THE GIANT JURY!
Want to see all the films for FREE?! Join our Giant Jury! Join the Young Jury and you get to see new films before anyone else and pick the winning LYFF 2020 films. Being on the Young Jury is fun and absolutely FREE. Join the Leeds Young Film Festival team, get a free Check out the VIP pass to the Film Festival, a T-shirt and whole programme goodie-bag. We’ll MICRO MOVIE CHALLENGE: at leedsfilm.com provide training on how CLIMATE EMERGENCY to review films so that you Saturday 11 April at 6pm sees feel confident about picking the launch of our brand new film- the festival’s winners. making challenge with a screening All the films in competition will be shown at of 2040 plus a special event! Carriageworks Theatre between Monday 6th and Thursday 9th April and you must be able to attend at least six of the screenings. If you are aged 8+ and are interested in taking part please email [email protected] with your name and age by Friday 27 March 2020. scan me! To find out more about the Giant Jury and to apply go to bit.ly/2HNdBHi or scan the QR code.
Rocca Changes the World
The Arctic Camels 5 DAY BY DAY GUIDE
Carriageworks Cineworld / White Rose Subtitles 09:30 - 14:00 3+ Jury Screening 10:00 U 3+ FREE Drop-in Story Captain Sabertooth & World creative play 11:00 UK Premiere the Magic Diamond Missing Link Free Creative Activity 82mins 93mins 12:00 U 3+ Film Screening The Lunnis 83mins Special Event 14:00 PG 8+ Too Far Away Workshop
Mon 6 Apr 88mins 16:00 12A VR Zone Club of Ugly Children 90mins FREE Drop-in Activity
Carriageworks Cineworld / White Rose Art Gallery
09:30 - 14:00 3+ 10:00 U 3+ FREE Drop-in Story 10:00 - 16:00 11 + Shorts for Wee Ones World creative play FREE Filmmaking 45mins 11:00 11:00 - 17:00 3+ drop-in workshops Frozen 2 FREE Drop-in creative with photographer 11:15 PG 5+ Nick Singleton Shorts for Middle Ones 103mins play 50mins 12:30 U 5+ Sheep & Wolves 2 13:00 74mins Kirikou and the Sorceress + free
Tue 7 Apr Tue 14:15 PG 8+ activity Team Marco 60mins activity + 90mins 71mins film 16:15 PG The Arctic Camels 77mins
09:30 - 14:00 3+ 10:00 U 3+ FREE Drop-in Story Cattle Hill World creative play 65mins 11:00 11:00 - 17:00 3+ 11:30 U 5+ The Addams Family FREE Drop-in creative Fantastic Return to Oz 86mins play 80mins 13:30 PG 8+ Snow White & the 13:00 Magic of the Dwarfs Ernest and Celestine + 90mins free activity 60mins activity + Wed 8 Apr Wed 15:30 PG 8+ 80mins film Sune - Best Man 88mins
09:30 - 14:00 3+ 10:00 U 3+ FREE Drop-in Story 10:00 - 16:00 11 + The Elfkins World creative play FREE Filmmaking 75mins 11:00 11:00 - 17:00 3+ drop-in workshops Toy Story 4 FREE Drop-in creative with photographer 12:00 PG 8+ Nick Singleton The Bears Famous 100mins play Invasion of Sicily 90mins 14:00 PG 8+ 13:00 Rocca Changes the The Secret of Kells +
Thu 9 Apr World free activity 100mins 60mins activity + 75mins film 16:00 PG 8+ Romy’s Salon 90mins
6 Book tickets online at leedsfilm.com or at City Centre Box Office on 0113 376 0318. See page 2 for venue details, prices and booking info.
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10:00 5+ 10:00 7+ 10:00- The Night 10:30 5+ Minecraft 10:30 8-13 16:00 7+ Zookeeper Aardman - Gromit 90mins Climate Clips Film- VR Family 11:00 11:00-17:00 3+ 75mins 60mins making Workshop Cinema Maleficent 2 FREE Drop-in 90mins 120mins creative play 12:00 5+ See 12:30 7+ 12:30 5+ Meet the Aardman website Minecraft Night Zookeeper ModelMaker for times 90mins 60mins 60mins & booking 14:00 14:00 5+ 14:00 5+ 14:00 8-13 details Wallace & Aardman - Shaun Night Zookeeper Climate Clips Film- Gromit Shorts 60mins 15:00 7+ 60mins making Workshop Minecraft
Fri 10 Apr Fri 10 120mins 90mins 15:30 5+ 90mins 15:30 5+ Aardman - Gromit Night Zookeeper 16:30 60mins 60mins Sonic the Hedgehog 100mins
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10:00 10:00 7+ 10:00 8+ 10:00-16:00 7+ The Railway 10:30 5+ Minecraft Be A TV Presenter 10:30 8-13 VR Family Cinema Children Aardman - Shaun 90mins 90mins Climate Clips Film- 106mins 60mins making Workshop See website for 90mins times & booking 12:15 3+ details BAFTA Kids: 12:30 5+ 12:30 7+ 13:00 Paddington Aardman - Lu-La Minecraft Spirited Away + free 60mins 60mins 90mins activity 60mins activity + 14:00 6+ 14:00 14-19 125mins film BAFTA Kids: 14:30 5+ 14:30 8+ Climate Clips Film- Thundercats Roar Aardman - Bitzer 15:00 7+ Be A TV Presenter making Workshop 75mins 60mins Minecraft 90mins 120mins Sat 11 Apr Sat 11 16:00 90mins Farmageddon 87mins Don’t forget to check out 18:00 2040 + Event the other FREE drop-in 92mins + events taking place across
11:00 11:00 8+ 11:00 7+ 11:00 8+ the festival including Harry Potter and Doctor Simpo’s Minecraft 11:30 8+ Costume Design - the amazing VR Van on the Philosopher’s Cartoon Character 90mins Movie Make-up Wizards & Witches Millennium Square over Stone Animation & SFX 120mins 152mins 150mins 120mins Easter weekend! 13:00 7+ Minecraft 90mins 14:00 8+ 14:00 8+ 14:30 Doctor Simpo’s 14:30 8+ Costume Design - Harry Potter and Cartoon Character 15:00 7+ Movie Make-up Wizards & Witches the Chamber of Animation Minecraft & SFX 120mins
Sun 12 Apr Sun 12 Secrets 150mins 90mins 120mins 161mins
10:30 10:30 5+ 10:30 8+ The Greatest 11:00 Claymation Splat! 11:00 8+ Costume Design - Showman Sing- The Lion King ‘94 90mins Movie Make-up Superheroes a-long 98mins & SFX 120mins 102mins 120mins 12:30 5+ 13:00 Create a Puppet The Tigger Movie 90mins 13:30 8+ 14:00 77mins 14:00 8+ Costume Design - The Kid Who Movie Make-up Superheroes Would Be King 14:30 5+ & SFX 120mins 120mins 15:00 Animation Tricks 120mins The Iron Giant Mon 13 Apr Mon 13 90mins 86mins
www.leedsfilm.com City Centre Box Office: 0113 376 0318 7 VR FAMILY CINEMA Visit distant lands and journey through new worlds Join us in the world’s first VR Family Cinema specially put together by VR creator, Rosie Summers. For 2020 we have 3 new packages of experiences to allow you and your families to explore, relax and uncover stories FREE! inside virtual reality. Using Oculus Go VR headsets, you can enjoy new worlds freely and untethered by wires! Meaning you can relax together, explore together and experience all together. An inclusive space where you can drift in and out of new realms. See website for session dates and times. EXPLORE STORYTIME RELAX Shennong A VR Real-Time animation, Shennong is an adventure story about a hero of prehistoric China, which describes a battle between Shennong and a beast from his illusion.
Orsted Space Safari TRIPP Join a team of astronauts on a Based on scientific research, TRIPP virtual space mission. Together is a deeply immersive experience you will go on an awe-inspiring that leaves you feeling calm experience as you travel and focused, less stressed and through space and see our anxious. home like never before. Go For a Walk Transition Walk through a world made of A metaphor for death, music with your canine buddy. Transition takes you on a journey With no set beginning or end just from one world into the next. point at stuff to make chill beats!
scan me! FREE 60 minute sessions which must be booked in advance Discover the full online at leedsfilm.com or at City VR programme Centre Box Office (0113 376 at bit.ly/37Sk7Hr Carriageworks or scan the QR 0318). Code. Theatre Age 7+ (children must be Fri 10 & Sat 11 Apr accompanied by an adult) 8 The Night Zookeeper 5+
The Adventures 3+ of Paddington
BAFTA Kids presents a special preview screening of Nick Jr.’s new In Joshua Davidson’s world of the Night Zoo, children animated series discover purple elephants, invisible spying giraffes, The Adventures Wednesday flavoured ice cream and a city made entirely of Paddington. of igloos. The show focuses Watch the entire first series of The on a younger Night Zookeeper, presented Paddington as by creator Joshua Davidson. he writes letters Discover how the Night to his Aunt Lucy Zookeeper animated series was celebrating the new made and learn the secrets of things he discovers character creation for storytelling. throughout the day. Co-produced by Studio Canal and Heyday Films and animated by BAFTA award-winning studio Blue Zoo. SPECIAL Thundercats Roar 6+ FREE! EVENTS BAFTA Kids presents Cartoon Network’s Carriageworks Theatre new animated series produced by Warner Fri 10 & Sat 11 Apr Bros Animation. Lion-O and the ThunderCats - Tygra, Meet the Aardman 5+ Panthro, Cheetara, Wilykat and Wilykit Animator — escape the sudden As senior model maker destruction of for Aardman Animations, their home world, Jim Parkyn is responsible Thundera, only to for creating some of the crash land on the UK’s most-loved Plasticine mysterious and exotic characters, from Morph to planet of Third Earth. Shaun the Sheep. Join Jim as he talks about FREE events which must be booked in advance online his career from joining at leedsfilm.com or at City Centre Box Office (0113 Chicken Run to make 376 0318). Aardman event FREE with Aardman beaks and cheeks (and Modelmaking workshop ticket (p10), £3.30 without. sanding chickens’ bums), to working on Shaun the Sheep and even voicing a character in Rex the scan me! Runt. Find out more about your favourite Aardman Find out more about the Special characters and how to Events at bit.ly/2SRLf4Y or scan become a model maker or the QR Code. an animator. 9 For full programme FILM ACADEMY see centre pages. See the whole workshop programme WORKSHOPS at bit.ly/32k457S or scan the QR code. Venture into a world of movie magic at The Carriageworks, learning scan me! animation and filmmaking skills from the professionals! Aardman Modelmaking 5+ Make your very own Gromit, Shaun, Lu-La Carriageworks or Bitzer character to take away and keep Theatre in these fun, hands- Fri 10 - Mon 13 Apr on clay modelling workshops. Led by From £5.50 one of Aardman’s expert model makers. Climate doc filmmaking 8-13 / 14-19 the Night Zookeeper 5+ Joshua Davidson, Linked to our brand new creator of the Night Micro Movie Challenge, Zookeeper, will lead professional documentary a creativity workshop filmmaker Mirjam Marks will where you will be able teach you the basic film- to invent your own making skills to make a short magical character doc about your feelings on to feature in his the Climate Emergency. interactive world! So You Want to Be a TV Presenter? 8+ Minecraft xbox build battle 7+ Officially Amazing TV Join Minecraft presenter Ben Shires hosts a Marketplace Partner fun, interactive session on the Adam Clarke for an exciting world of television epic Xbox Build Battle. presenting. Learn how to Start with some warm prepare for filming, work up builds and learn in a live studio, interview some tips and tricks techniques and lots more! from Adam, then prepare for battle! Movie Make-up & SFX 8+ Learn special effects secrets Doctor Simpo’s Cartoon comic 8+ from professional artist Horrible character Nikoleta Tzani, who will creation and design demonstrate techniques that with Leeds-based artist are used on movie sets. and animator Doctor Learn the art of creating fake Simpo. Use your blood and slime and make imagination to develop your own severed finger! a cartoon character and bring it to life in a Costume Design 8+ short comic strip! Professional costume designer Jane Allen will Animation Skills 5+ help you understand how Learn pro animation to put together a costume skills to improve and bring your imagination your filmmaking. to life. Design a wizard or Choose from three fun witch costume (Sun 12 Apr) sessions focusing on or Superhero (Mon 13 Apr). claymation, puppet- making and how to animate fire & water 10 and make things fly! OTHER VENUES & EVENTS
In addition to our core programme in the Tue 7 - Thu 9 & Sat 11 April Carriageworks Theatre we have lots of other With Hyde Park Picture House exciting activities happening across the city with closing for 12 months while it our key partners. Check out all the other things undergoes exciting new developments, we going on! See the website at leedsfilm.com for have partnered with Hyde full details. Park on the Road and Leeds Art Gallery to bring you an exciting programme of animated films from around the world. Mon 6 - Fri 10 April Each film will have a FREE one-hour creativity Once again we have a fun-filled programme of films at activity linked to it which starts at 1pm, with the Cineworld Leeds in the White Rose Shopping Centre. film following at 2pm. See centre pages or website A fantastic chance to catch some of the best kids’ for details. movies from last year that you may have missed or just All tickets £2.20, 1pm (film starts at 2pm), 3+ want to see again on the big screen. On Tuesday and Thursday there will also be FREE See centre pages or website for details. filmmaking & photography drop-in workshops in All tickets £2.50, 11am, 3+ Central Court with photographer Nick Singleton. (tickets only available from cineworld.co.uk) 10am - 4pm, age 11+ From Tuesday to Friday there will also be FREE drop- in craft activities in the Atrium provided by BoomChikkaBoom! 11am - 5pm, age 1+ Mon 30 March - (children must be accompanied Sat 11 April by an adult) Another chance to see all the films competing in the Animated Shorts Award on the Big Screen on Millennium Square. Among Bramley Community Centre the many stories are a grumpy green monster who learns to share his toys and Fri 3, thu 9 & Fri 10 April a young girl who lives in the sky and In a new partnership for 2020 LYFF presents three looks after the stars. Truly wonderful! screenings for families and young people at Bramley FREE, Screening on a loop Community Centre. See website for full details. throughout the day, 3+ Fri 3 April, 10am, Age 3 - 6, £1 per family Thu 9 April, 7.30pm, Age 8 - 14, £1 entry Fri 10 April, 10am, Age 7 - 12, £1 per family (Tickets only available from the venue)
wed 8 - Sat 11 April LYFF presents Shorts for Wee Ones - a wonderful selection Mon 15 & Tue 16 Apr of short animated films, mostly Sat 11 April dialogue-free, brought to you by The Room on the Broom and The Highway These FREE school Discovery Film Festival in Dundee. Rat with the orchestra of Opera North. screenings are in partnership Meet a little mouse with big dreams, Terry Davies conducts René Aubry’s with Into Film, a film a cheerful robot and his canine inspired scores for this wonderful education charity delivering companion, a boy whose best friend double bill, Room on the Broom and film education to young is a tree and a very cool bear who The Highway Rat, based on the much- people aged 5-19 across the loves his sneakers! loved children’s books written by Julia UK. If you are a teacher or FREE, See website for times, 3+ Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. See website for details. home educator and want to book places please go to Tickets from £7.95 www.intofilm.org/events. 2.30pm (relaxed performance) These screenings are not & 4.15pm available to the public. 11 FAMILY FILMS, FOOD & FREE PARKING.
Make your next family movie night a blockbuster in our 11- screen Cineworld with IMAX and ScreenX! It’s a wrap with after-school eats and outdoor play area in The Village, with free parking right outside.
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