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 in the course of 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 major and provoking contribution to movie by way of a selected venture or work’ in accordance with Bafta, with a give attention to recognising efforts that 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 tension and isolation that individuals so typically really feel when in hospital,” mentioned Jane Millichip, Bafta CEO. “It’s extremely rewarding to see the societal good of movie deployed on this means.”
“Movie and cinema have an unimaginable energy to take away folks from their on a regular basis environment,” mentioned Lawrence. “Many in hospital are going by way of very troublesome instances, and we see on daily basis how being immersed within the energy of the massive display 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 Faculty, Curzon, Angels Costumes, and BBC Movies.