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Do you love movies?
Do you love birthdays?
Do you love adventures?
Are you nearly 8½?
Then you are so lucky
Because 8½ is your movie birthday
Discover brilliant films

Welcome to the eye-popping, mind-blowing, time-travelling world of cinema! On this twinkling wee site, you can discover brilliant films that we’d love you to see. They will take you on fantastic journeys, to see wonders you’ve never imagined.

On your 8½ birthday, we’d love you to have a party: invite your friends; watch a movie and, together, take a ride on a magic carpet to faraway lands.

Movies we recommend

You’ve probably seen films like Toy Story and Shrek. We love them too, but here are some less well known films we think are fantastic.

Like Willy Wonka’s sweets, the films you’ll find here are all very different and surprising. Some might blow the top of your head off; some might make you turn purple (no, not really); some you will love; some might make you go ugh. But until you try them, you’ll never know...

Latest news

Mark Cousins delivers the Edinburgh Lecture!

http://tinyurl.com/84ynksx

We like this idea.

http://www.geekyoto.com/?p=119

Filmmaking parties for children!

http://www.cartoonclubscotland.co.uk/

Yay! We got a mention on The Movie Cafe, at 19min55.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0195f4b#synopsis

We’ve been busy! We’ve celebrated sending out 2000 films by commissioning ace animator Alice Nelson to make a wee film about our parcels. Take a look…

http://eightandahalf.org/what_we_have_been_up_to

Wonderful organisation for children in Glasgow and now in Edinburgh.

http://dlvr.it/13pQqS

Check out the trailer for the wonderful Glasgow Youth Film Festival!

play videowww.youtube.com

Silent comedy classics for all the family at the Britannia Panopticon in Glasgow this Saturday!

http://www.britanniapanopticon.org/2.html

New Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival trailer looks great!

play videovimeo.com
Free Moviews Galore!

Map of scotland We think these films are so great that we have been giving some of them away for free, as 8½ birthday presents, to a few lucky children in a few special Scottish places. We are working with schools all around Scotland.
Find out what we've been up to

Latest news

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