Education
How Aliens Can Help You Pass Your Exams: Attack the Block
Study Session
Cornerhouse
Wed 30 Nov 2011
10:30 - 15:00
£6 per student
How To Book
Contact the Projector Booking Team at Box Office on 0161 200 1500 between 12:00 – 18:00, Mon – Fri.
This session is open only to young people between 14 – 19 years old accompanied by their teachers.
Part of Projector Film & Media, Projector
Recommended for: A2 Media
Capacity: 158 places
A successful feature at the SxSW festival in Austin, Texas, Attack the Block is an effective case study of contemporary British filmmaking. The film demonstrates the continuing vibrancy and creativity on a shoestring that characterises this cottage industry and the session will consider the importance of its financing model and institutional context, in the light of the recent loss of the UK Film Council. The film’s use of typical narrative and genre styles will be a focus, along with its prospects in the global film market.
Led by Rona Murray, Freelance Film Educator
Screening: Attack the Block 15
Dir Joe Cornish/ GB 2011 / 88 mins
Attack the Block is a fast, funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters. It turns a London housing estate into a sci-fi playground. A tower block into a fortress under siege. And teenage street kids into heroes. It’s inner city versus outer space.
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