Latest news from Loughborough University
27 Oct 2015
Halloween Cheap Thrills! Zero Budget Film Festival
The CheapThrills! Zero Budget Film Festival is back for a third year in Loughborough with a Halloween special later this month.
LU Arts are inviting staff, students and members of the community to enjoy a frightfully fun weekend of free film screenings, workshops and the chance to make and star in your own film.
Guests will learn filming techniques and use equipment to make 2D animation, create films using motion, live action, green screen and editing software. They will also be invited to take part in Tabletop Filmmaking workshops.
The Cheap Thrills! Zero Budget Film Festival has grown each year and aims to showcase local talent. It now operates annually and offers two fantastic chances for filmmakers and audiences to celebrate their mutual love of film for free.
The event is running on Saturday 31 October from 10am – 5pm at Market Town Corner, Carillon Court Shopping Centre, Loughborough. It is free to attend but booking is required.
Under 18s must be accompanied by a participating adult. Guests are asked to bring cameras or camera phones, a USB stick, outline of a story and a sense of fun along with them to the event.
Click here to book for the tabletop filmmaking workshops
Click here to join the waiting list for the 2D animation workshops
Notes for editors
Article reference number: October News
Loughborough is one of the country’s leading universities, with an international reputation for research that matters, excellence in teaching, strong links with industry, and unrivalled achievement in sport and its underpinning academic disciplines.
It has been awarded five stars in the independent QS Stars university rating scheme, putting it among the best universities in the world, and was named University of the Year in the What Uni Student Choice Awards 2015.Loughborough is consistently ranked in the top twenty of UK universities in the Times Higher Education’s ‘table of tables’ and is in the top 10 in England for research intensity. It was 2nd in the 2015 THE Student Experience Survey and was named Sports University of the Year 2013-14 by The Times and Sunday Times. In recognition of its contribution to the sector, Loughborough has been awarded seven Queen's Anniversary Prizes.
In September 2015 the University opened an additional academic campus in London’s new innovation quarter. Loughborough University London, based on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, offers postgraduate and executive-level education, as well as research and enterprise opportunities.