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Movie icons start kids' film club

Updated on 12 June 2008

By Stephanie West

'It feels like a privilege,' is how one teenager describes the launch of a film club in his inner city school today.

Over the next three years, 7,000 clubs will open across the United Kingdom.

It's the brainchild of Bridget Jones' director Beeban Kidron.

Thanks to £11m in government funding, she's launched the scheme with a troupe of award-winning film folk, in order to teach children why the art of storytelling is so important.

Channel 4 News went to Morpeth School in London's Bethnal Green.

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