2010 Peckham and Nunhead outdoor screening.

Camberwell is set to welcome its first free film festival from the 14 to 24 March. Films and workshop sessions will be showcased across the district during the event, open to all London residents.

Co-founder and Camberwell resident Victor Ferreiro said they hope to increase “the feelgood factor of people in Camberwell” this spring through the event, connecting films with their screening locations, unearthing timeless treasures and exhibiting pictures associated with the South London area.

The 10-day event features a host of short films and full-length screenings, including Tom Hooper’s The Damned United shown in Dulwich Hamlet Football Club, Congolese music documentary Hello Africa and alien monster movie Attack the Block, set and filmed in the neighbouring district of Brixton.

Ferreiro said organisers aimed to showcase the “quirky, unique, under appreciated Camberwell” this year, with the festival expecting to welcome more than 100 adults and children in Myatts Field Park for an outdoor showing of the animated children’s film Ratatouille. Organisers are also said to be preparing for high numbers at Wyndham and Comber Tenants Hall as Attack the Block actor Leeon Jones appears for a question and answer session following the film’s screening.

Filmmaking workshops including animation classes for children are also on offer as well as the opportunity for those aged 10 to 18 to make a film in a day, free of charge.

The Free Film Festival is a non-profit organisation founded by a community group in 2010, with the aim of bringing together neighborhoods through the medium of film, proving successful in the Peckham and Nunhead festival and New Cross and Deptford festival.

The group receives funding from local councils as well as the British Film Institute and community cinemas, helping to provide equipment, catering and volunteers for the community event.

Ferreiro said the group hopes to establish the festival as a regular annual event, with the following years being able to “develop and evolve to meet the interests and needs of the local community”.