Case studies | The Bigger Picture

Into Film and BFI FAN Youth Engagement Project

To support FAN member venues attracting 16-19 year olds to their venues to watch more independent film, Into Film re-ran their Youth Engagement Project in 2019/20.

Ropetackle Cinema: Relaxed and Friendly Screenings

Find out how Ropetackle Arts Centre developed the capacity and skillset of their team to deliver Relaxed and Friendly screenings.

Building a Digital Special for Pilot Light TV Festival

Season 5 of Pilot Light TV Festival was due to hit the big screen in May 2020, then COVID-19 hit, and a journey to take over the small screen began…

Build Your Own Film Night

Flatpack has developed a series of workshops to give young people the tools and knowledge to build their own film night!

Starting as a community cinema operating in Birmingham, CineQ seeks to grow appetites and audiences for Queer and LGBTQIA+ films whilst champion New Queer Cinema in the region – with a focus on the perspectives of Queer Trans and Intersex People of Colour (QTIPOC)
CineQ has now grown into a two day festival supported by BFI FAN Film Hub Midlands.

Three Films Festival

A three-day short online short film festival showcasing films made for and by young people aged 15-25.

Strategic Interventions

Targeting low areas of provision in the Midlands, Strategic Interventions delivered activity in collaboration with on-the-ground partners to provide sustainable, better connected, more visible, and a more ambitious film scene.

Drag artist Grace Oni Smith poses in character as Hedwig before a performance on the Live Cinema UK tour

Cabaret & Hedwig and the Angry Inch on tour

Live Cinema UK and Make a Scene put on an all-singing, all-dancing, cult, queer movie show for BFI Musicals!

Beyond Boundaries 360

Beyond Boundaries: A free skills development opportunity aimed at individuals based in the South West who are under-represented in the cinema sector (particularly people of colour, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people, women and those from low socio-economic backgrounds) interested in putting on film screenings.

Strange Worlds, Changing Utopia, Victoria Park Productions

Strange Worlds, Changing Utopias Film Season was an originally curated season celebrating archive film and dynamic new stories exploring the pressing issues of our past, present and future. The season aimed to respond to the most important issues facing society today: people and the ever changing relationship to our environment.