FilmBath and The Bunch: a New Partnership
Wed Nov 2020FilmBath and The Bunch + our top university-related films for students and parents
FilmBath and AMPLIFY! online film festival have teamed up with The Bunch, an awesome company helping young people in shared accommodation manage their utility bills.
The Bunch simplifies the sometimes precarious task of keeping on top of shared bills by combining the cost of the electricity, gas, Wi-Fi and the TV licence into one clear payment split between housemates: AND makes sure that each person is only liable for their share, so no more going into debt for that housemate who never pays.
Unlike other similar organisations (who, frankly, rip students off with hidden charges), The Bunch’s fees are transparent (£10 a month – but students save more than that on the energy bills, so it’s win-win). Plus The Bunch only use green energy and plant 5 trees for every new account: what’s not to love?
That’s the bills covered. But The Bunch’s clever system even helps housemates find a new place once their tenancy’s up.
With the bills and househunting sorted, what will students do with all this extra spare time?
Watch films, of course!
And what better way to binge than with a pass to over 30 incredible films to AMPLIFY online film festival from 6 – 22 November.
What is AMPLIFY! online film festival?
In light of the pandemic, four of the UK’s leading regional film festivals: FilmBath, Cornwall, Cambridge and CINECITY of Brighton have teamed up and taken things online, streaming a great programme of world cinema and debuts hot off the festival circuit directly – to you – from 6 – 22 November.
PLUS ALL tickets are 50% off for 16–30 year olds
And when you buy a pass, not only will you have access to over 30 awesome films, industry events and insider Q&As, you’ll be supporting these film festivals – and the film industry as a whole. Thank you 🙏
Check out some AMPLIFY! trailers
Interdependence
11 Shorts from around the world. Environment x art.
Pari
Searching for her son, she finds herself.
Luxor
In the ruins of Ancient Egypt woman meditates on life, love and loss.
Our top university-related films for students and parents
In honour of our new partnership with The Bunch, and for the students who have been locked up during Freshers and any parents who have been worrying about them, here are AMPLIFY!’s university-related film recommendations.
We thought it would fun to split each our recommendations into what the students and parents of today perceive university to be like… in normal circumstances.
1. Leaving Home
Students
Ghost World (2001)
A quintessential slacker flick. Now that everyone’s started dressing like the 90s/00s again, the only real difference to today is the lack of smartphones.
Parents
Grease (1978)
Where greasy hair may be present in Ghost World, it probably wasn’t intentional – the same cannot be said for the T-Birds.
2. Freshers Week
Students
Raw (2016)
OK, so getting a taste for human flesh may not happen to every fresher, but everything else in this gristly French thriller seems pretty accurate.
Parents
Animal House (1978)
TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!
3. Term Time
Students
Dear White People (2014)
Confronting uncomfortable truths while lmao-ing is what Gen-Zs do best.
Parents
Starter For 10 (2006)
Harking back to simpler times of no uni fees and Bamber Gascoigne is what boomers do best.
4. After Graduation
Students
Reality Bites (1994)
Sofa surfing, unfulfilling jobs and bad romantic decision making. ie. early adulthood. Live it vicariously through Wiona and friends.
Parents
Adult Life Skills (2016)
Pre Doctor Who Jodie Whitaker proves that it is way easier to be a Time Lord than a grownup human.