MediCinema, the hospital charity offering cinema to sufferers, will obtain the Bafta excellent British contribution to cinema award on the 2025 Bafta Movie Awards.
MediCinema CEO Colin Lawrence can be offered with the award throughout the ceremony on the Southbank Centre’s Royal Pageant Corridor, on Sunday, February 16.
The honorary award is offered to a person or organisation that has made ‘a big and provoking contribution to movie by a selected undertaking or work’ in accordance with Bafta, with a give attention to recognising efforts which may not in any other case be eligible within the aggressive classes.
Based in 1999, MediCinema builds and operates cinemas inside hospitals and locations of care, enabling sufferers and their households to get pleasure from big-screen experiences in a protected and medically supported surroundings. Sufferers are capable of attend screenings in hospital beds; and screenings are freed from cost. Greater than 17,500 sufferers attended MediCinema screenings in 2024.
“MediCinema’s distinctive cinema expertise gives significant advantages to hospital sufferers and their households, by providing the immersive expertise of movie to alleviate the sentiments of hysteria and isolation that individuals so usually really feel when in hospital,” stated Jane Millichip, Bafta CEO. “It’s extremely rewarding to see the societal good of movie deployed on this manner.”
“Movie and cinema have an unbelievable energy to take away folks from their on a regular basis environment,” stated Lawrence. “Many in hospital are going by very tough occasions, and we see on daily basis how being immersed within the energy of the massive display screen can profit their psychological wellbeing and supply significant launch from the challenges of being on the wards.”
Beforehand recipients of the excellent British contribution to cinema award embody Andy Serkis, Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlson, the Nationwide Movie and Tv College, Curzon, Angels Costumes, and BBC Movies.
