24/06/2008

Today, Denmark’s Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary, Culture Minister Brian Mikkelsen and Prami Larsen, head of the Danish Film Institute’s Film Workshop, inaugurated the FILM-X on the Road initiative, aimed at children and teenagers, at London’s BFI Southbank.

The event consists of a mobile interactive film studio providing kids with a unique opportunity to make their own films from a Morris Minor vehicle equipped with microphones and two editing stations. Instructors are on hand to help the youngsters through the production process.

Twelve children at a time can choose from different pre-set background films, serving as frames for their own scripts. Working in crews, the children are able to direct, act, edit and design the sound for their films. The mobile studio is inspired by the successful DFI’s FILM-X in Copenhagen, which attracts some 10,000 pupils and 4,000 individual visitors each year.

Co-organised in collaboration with the British Film Institute and the Embassy of Denmark, Film-X on the Road will be staying at London’s BFI Southbank from June 24 to August 20. It will then travel to Filmbyen in Århus, Denmark before going to other internationals destinations.