The Cans4Films Festival was the brainchild of Andrew Sansome and was enthusiastically embraced by his brother Glenn. The idea was simple, have people bring in a can of food to the video store and swap it for a free weekly rental. All cans collected are then donated to charity to help with hunger relief.  The first event was held at Glenn Sansome’s DeVoteD DVD store and thanks to overwhelming public support, collected over 1000 cans of food for the local Plenty Valley Salvation Army.

 

“The great thing about the event is that it excites people to become involved and 100% of the food collected goes to help those in need. We hope the event will help highlight the issue of hunger in Australia and show that we can all play a part in helping those who may of otherwise gone hungry.”

 

This year we are very excited to have the fantastic support of Network Video Group as this will enable the event to be nation wide with hundreds of stores across Australia taking part.  All food donated goes to Foodbank, Australia’s largest hunger relief charity and will support them in their vision of an Australia without hunger.