YOUNG people in Darlington are being invited to take part in the world’s biggest youth film festival.

The Into Film Festival, which runs from November 4 to 20, will give 400,000 young people across the country, aged from five to 19, the chance to attend free screenings and movie themed events.

The festival is hosted by education charity Into Film, supported by Cinema First and the BFI through Lottery funding.

It is part of an on-going initiative to use film and filmmaking as a learning tool and is supported by celebrities including Eddie Redmayne, Carey Mulligan, Michael Sheen, Ralph Fiennes and Sir Ian McKellen.

In Darlington, screenings will take place at the Odeon cinema, in Northgate, and will include the Penguins of Madagascar, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Into the Woods, Interstellar and That Sugar Film.

For more information visit IntoFilm.org/Festival