Two local charities that benefit children with cancer are partnering for an exclusive screening of the critically acclaimed movie “Ways to Live Forever” on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 3 p.m. at Penn Cinema, 541 Airport Road, Lititz.

In addition to raising money for children with cancer, the event will honor the memories of Eli Sidler of Lebanon and Jed Smith of Red Lion, who both lost their battles with cancer. The boys became buddies during their many years of treatment at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. Smith had leukemia, and Sidler suffered from Ewing’s sarcoma.

Their families created the nonprofit foundations, jointly called Chemowarrior, that are presenting the movie. The Eli Sidler Foundation provides funding for childhood cancer research, and The Jedediah Thomas Smith Foundation offers financial support to area families who have a child with cancer.

Advance tickets for the screening are $15 and are available at www.chemowarrior.org (along with a link to the movie trailer) or through the Penn Cinema website, www.penncinema.com. Tickets will be sold at the door, but due to limited seating advance purchase is recommended.

“Ways to Live Forever” stars Robbie Kay (“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”) as Sam, and Alex Etel (“Millions”) as Felix. The cast includes Greta Scaachi (“Emma,” “Flightplan”), Ben Chaplin (“The Remains of the Day,” “The Truth About Cats and Dogs”), Natalia Tena (HBO’s “Game of Thrones”), Ella Purnell (“Intruders,” “WildLike”) and Emilia Fox (BBC’s “Merlin”).

The film, based on the novel of the same title by Sally Nicholls, tells the story of two teenage boys with cancer who become friends when they meet in a hospital. Like most inquisitive boys, 12-year old Sam wants to know about UFOs, horror movies, ghosts and girls. Sam has leukemia and, although the adults in his life don’t want him to dwell on it, Sam wants to know everything about his disease and death, a possibility he might face. Together with his best friend, Felix, he embarks on a “scientific investigation” with questions, observations, evidence, reflections and lists of all the things he wants to do someday — like breaking a world record, flying in a blimp, kissing a girl for the first time, and experiencing what it’s like to be a teenager.

In this poignant yet ultimately uplifting tale, Sam and his family face the immensity of an uncertain future with love, humor and a touch of the unexpected.

“Ways to Live Forever” is distributed by World Wide Motion Pictures Corp.; website: www.wwmpc.com.

Chemowarrior: The Eli Sidler Foundation and The Jedediah Thomas Smith Foundation are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. Net proceeds from the Nov. 2 event will be split between the two charities.

Although this isn’t an interview with Ella, its a great read, all about her movie Wildlike.

“I’m an avid backpacker and love the outdoors, so I wanted to tell a story about a journey in the wilderness and, I think I subconsciously really wanted to tell a story about the healing power of nature,” “Wildlike” writer, producer, and director Frank Hall Green told Hamptons.com when we sat down with him and “Wildlike” actor Nolan Gerard Funk during the Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF). “In addition to that, there’s a social issue component which is important to me,” noted the director.

When Mackenzie (Ella Purnell), a troubled teenage girl, is sent to live with her uncle (Brian Geraghty) in Juneau, Alaska, his guardianship is not what it seems, so the daring teen flees. As she desperately tries to contact her mother for help, Mackenzie falls deeper into the Alaskan wilderness and is suddenly helplessly alone. A timely encounter with a loner backpacker, Rene Bartlett (Bruce Greenwood), proves to be her only salvation.

“It’s very loud in its quietness,” Funk explained. The actor, who’s had roles in “Glee,” MTV’s “Awkward,” “The Canyons,” and “Riddick,” told us while he doesn’t have as much backpacking experience as Green, he thinks each character represents a different piece of the director. “He wrote the film, so there’s a part of him in all of us,” said Funk, who plays one of the backpackers Mackenzie meets along the way.

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We have finally added HQ V Magazine scans from the Summer 2014 Issue where Ella was photographed by Ben Weller to the image gallery …

“There’s a joke in my family that I’m going to make a career out of playing other people’s younger selves” jokes 17-year-old actress Ella Purnell. “I played the younger Keira Knightley), now I’m playing the younger Angelia. I mean, its a good track record, right?” The London native is making light of being cast by executive producer and lead actress Angelina Jolie in this season’s brooding Disney blockbuster Maleficent. Though the two have never met, Jolie hand picked the fashion-adoring actress during the film’s reshoot stage. Purnell, who had originally auditioned for the role of Princess Aurora (which eventually went to Elle Fanning), was not expecting the call, finding out about her appointment while recovering from a hospital stay for appendicitis. “I was sitting at home with greasy hair, with like operation stuff, half conscious, coming off annestetics, ” she says. Soon she was flying harnessed, with layers of bandaged covering her fresh scars. It was just another droll moment in a young, adventure-filled career that includes a narrowly missed bear attack in 2013’s Wildlike and throwing up on cue for Kick-Ass 2. “I don’t know if you’ve ever projectile vomited on someone’s face, but it’s really satisfying” she says.

In between directing a school play, working two jobs, and acting, the eldest daughter of four, like her Hollywood counterpart, spends time considering cinema through the lense of social progress. “I want to be a part of a movie that changes people’s conceptual framework and suddenly you see things in a different way,” she says. Perhaps that could be a good talking point when she finally meets her maker, at the Maleficent premiere. “I’ll meet Angelina and be like, “Hi, I;m you” That will be a good conversation starter.”

Ella attended Day 3 of the Hamptons International Film Festival in East Hampton New York. She was photographed with Bruce Greenwood, Ella Purnell, Frank Hall and Nolan Gerard at the Chairmans Reception yesterday (october 11th). We have added x10 photos to the gallery …

We have added x10 photos of Ella looking stunning at the Wildlike Premiere which is part of the Hamptons International Festival in New York. Ella posted with Diane Farr, Frank Hall Green,  Bruce Greenwood and Nolan Gerard Funk. The event took place on Day 2 (October 10th 2014)

Wildlike is set to be screened at three more film festivals, plus we have added a HQ version of the poster for the film, along with some more promotional stills to the gallery …

Woodstock Film Festival on Thursday, October 16 and Saturday, October 18.
http://wff.pointinspace.com/festival2014/details.php?id=28904

Austin Film Festival on Friday, October 24 and Sunday, October 26!
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Indie Memphis Film Festival on Friday, October 31!
http://indiememphis.com/pass-ticket-info/

Ella Purnell Fans has a new look, thanks to Sin21. What do you think?

Ellas film WildLike will premiere on October 10th at the 22nd Annual Hamptons International Film Festival, you can find out more information at hamptonsfilmfest.org to celebrate the release of the film, we have added a new still of Ella with Bruce Greenwood

Ella Purnell has joined the cast for Cyber Bully, a Channel 4 docu-drama about a teenage girl facing an anonymous online stalker and dealing with peer-to-peer bullying and advanced computer hacking, and eventually fighting back.

Cyber Bully, due to be broadcast in early 2015, takes place in a single location and also stars Maisie Williams and Jake Davies.

It will be presented in the form of a real-time thriller, directed by Ben Chanan, who was also responsible for Channel 4 drama-doc Blackout, which imagined the catastrophic aftermath of the collapse of the UK’s electricity supply.

Channel 4’s head of documentaries, Nick Mirsky, said: “It is one of the most important purposes of Channel 4 to find new ways of engaging young audiences with the cyber world and the stories that play out on the internet. This film does exactly that in a way that is gripping, relevant and fiercely public service.”