PEOPLE in Hillingdon are being asked to help with a major cinema project that aims to show London: The Bigger Picture.

Over the next three years, Film London’s London Screen Archives is hitting the road to illustrate it

It’s a major project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, to introduce the capital to its cinematic heritage and collect your home movies – and it’s coming to Hillingdon!

This Saturday (24) at 2pm in Ruislip Manor Library, London: A Bigger Picture presents a free screening of films of Hillingdon life.

An archivist will introduce the films alongside local studies experts, who will explain how the films fit into Hillingdon’s history and reveal more about the rich shared past they represent.

Rebekah Polding, Film London’s London Screen heritage manager, said: “London: A Bigger Picture is not just celebrating the film archives held across the capital, it is also ensuring they stay packed full of rich material.”

People are invited to search for and donate films showing life in Hillingdon, from birthday parties to days out, to footage of people in their homes, to share with future generations.

Rebekah added: “We hope people across the city will be inspired by the project to donate films to their local archive.

“Donors won’t just help to enrich the collection, they’ll be preserving precious memories of the local area that will show what living in Hillingdon has been like over the decades.”

A travelling cinema-in-a-van, known as the 'KinoVan', will be taking the archive on the road by touring boroughs in the coming months, screening films in open public spaces, such as market places and parks.

London: A Bigger Picture is seeking volunteers who would be interested in getting involved with screening films, learning how to identify old film formats and helping source more film from their area.

Anyone interested should contact screenheritage@filmlondon.org.uk or visit www.filmlondon.org.uk/lsa