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How to follow the Film Competition finalists’ event

30 June 2017

Childnet’s 8th annual Film Competition will be held on Monday 3rd July. This year the theme of the competition is ‘be the change’, inviting young people to use films to encourage their peers to make a positive change online.

Over 120 schools from across the UK entered the competition this year, and the 6 finalists will attend a private screening of their films at the BFI on London’s Southbank. All of the finalists’ films are shown on the big screen at the BFI and the young people are given an opportunity to share what they learnt and enjoyed most about making their films. The event will be attended by industry guests and all of the young filmmakers.

At the event the Film Competition winners will be announced, if you want to keep up to date with the latest Film Competition news on the day here are the best ways to do so:

On social media

The hashtag of the Film Competition is: #FilmComp17. Follow this to find out the winners of the competition as they are announced.

Follow us on social media, @Childnet, to see the fun activities happening at the finalists’ event, as well as all the important information on the run up to the day.

Throughout the day the event will be live-streamed on both the Childnet Twitter and Facebook.

On the Childnet website

To find out more about the Film Competition, as well as the finalists’ event, visit the Chilnet website

The winning videos will be uploaded into the Childnet website on Monday:

https://www.childnet.com/resources/film-competition

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