Adopt a Screening
Help us make another twenty years of festival magic.
2026 marks the twentieth edition of Flatpack Festival. For two decades we’ve been pushing the boundaries of what a film event can be, harnessing the unique power of cinema to bring people together in our home city of Birmingham.
From a film night in a local pub to a beloved international festival - complemented by a year round programme of events, activities and sector support. Just imagine what we can do in the next twenty…
Support our work by adopting a screening at the twentieth festival.
How it works
Step one: Browse the options below, and choose which screening you would like to 'adopt'.
Step two: Click the Adopt a Film button. This will take you to our payment platform Stripe, where you can select your chosen screening and the amount you would like to donate (our suggested donation is £200).
Step three: You'll then be contacted by the Flatpack team, who will send you two tickets to attend your chosen screening as our special guest. Your name will appear on the big screen as a supporter of Flatpack Festival, and you can settle in happy in the knowledge that you helped to make it happen.
The Menu
1. UK premiere of Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp - Our launch event. Featuring Carmen Chaplin’s documentary about her grandfather, exploring his Romani heritage and Birmingham roots. Carmen will attend the gala screening.
2. Amazing Grace - The spellbinding documentary that captured Aretha Franklin’s 1972 concert at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles. We’ll be screening the film at Birmingham’s oldest music studio - Grosvenor Road Studios in Handsworth - complete with a live performance from Europe’s finest female a cappella quintet Black Voices.
3. Colour Box Bingo - The ever popular interactive screening that combines short films and family bingo at Midlands Arts Centre.
4. My Grandmother + New Live Score - Multi-instrumentalist Stephen Horne and pianist Meg Morley will share a brand new score for Georgian slapstick comedy My Grandmother - one-of-a-kind silent oddity and veritable playground of avant-garde experimentation.
5. Made in the Midlands - Our Midlands-focussed short film programme, celebrating the wealth of diverse and eclectic filmmaking talent right here on our doorstep.
6. Withnail & I + Paul McGann - Regularly cited as one of the greatest British comedies ever committed to screen, we’ll be giving Withnail & I the outdoor cinema treatment at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Joining us on the day, Marwood himself - Mr Paul McGann.
7. The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Night two at Botanical Gardens will see us time warp-ing under the stars with this beloved cult favourite.
8. The General at 100 + Live Score - To celebrate the centenary of this undisputed masterpiece, Flatpack 20 is bringing The General (1926) back to the big screen for a birthday bash of epic proportions, accompanied by world-renowned silent film polymath Stephen Horne.
9. Doctor Who + Paul McGann - Paul McGann’s second festival appearance, this time for a Q&A following Doctor Who: The Movie. Paving the way for modern, young Doctors, the TV film encompasses 90s camp Sci-Fi in all the best ways.
10. Flesh for Frankenstein 3D + Live Score - Composer and filmmaker Scott Johnston will round off our twentieth year with his brand new score for Paul Morrissey’s gore-filled feast Flesh for Frankenstein. The film will be shown in all its bloody three-dimensional glory.
Where does the money go?
Flatpack Projects is a registered charity, and the income we receive from box office only goes a small way towards covering the cost of putting on an annual festival. In the case of screenings, we have to take into account venue hire, guest travel, screening fees, film transportation, staffing, promotional costs and plenty more besides. Your contribution plays a crucial part in helping make Flatpack happen, and making it accessible to as many people as possible through incentives such as our Solidarity Ticket scheme.