Who are you and what do you do at FILMCLUB?

I'm Sabrina, and I’m the School Support Manager which means I lead the school team here in helping schools make their film club THE thing that pupils look forward to in the week.

What was your favourite film as a child?

The Singing Ringing Tree - a weird, magical, primitive version of Beauty and the Beast that I first saw in black and white on television. Favourite film as a child at the cinema was The Incredible Journey - two cats and a dog cross Canada to find their master -inspired casting. I went three times.

What’s your favourite film now?

Once Upon a Time in the West - I could watch it with the sound off and be captivated; I could listen to it with the vision off and be transported. Put the two together and I'm in heaven. My sixth formers (before coming to FILMCLUB I was a teacher myself), very sadly, disagreed.

What was the last film you saw? What did you think of it?

Elegy, an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel directed by Isabel Coixet. I was intrigued to see how a female director would handle Roth's objectification of the young woman, played by Penelope Cruz - it's done with a truth that is rarely offered in the cinema.

If you were running a Film Club, which film would you show in the first week?

I found this difficult. I wanted to get bums on seats but my secret agenda was to make film buffs of the Year 7s and 8s. So how to signal the requisite amount of buffery without sacrificing the bums? I think I'd go for Napoleon Dynamite - they're unlikely to have seen it, it's funny, it's an independent movie and it's short which is important for that first screening - time to sort out membership details before and a discussion afterwards.