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LADS: Toxic Masculinity  by CinemaAttic x Zero Tolerance

CinemaAttic was established in 2008 in Edinburgh as an arts and culture blog to provide a platform for thoughts and ideas about independent cinema. The…

Wales Youth Festival Network/Wicked Wales

Wales Youth Festival Network (WYFN) is an informal network for supporting film festivals and venues across Wales to screen independent films to young audiences aged 15-26.

How Innovation Lab 2021 diversified cinema audiences and programming

This year’s (postponed) Innovation Lab focused on diversifying cinema audiences and programming through partnering venues with independent programmers who represented a wider diversity of experiences, cultures and heritages.

Exeter Phoenix: Young Audience Panel

In January 2021, Exeter Phoenix worked with a freelance Cinema Outreach Coordinator, Thea Berry, to work on an audience development project aimed at strengthening their visibility to, and to find new ways to reach, audiences under 25, and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic audiences.

Hippodrome Silent Film Festival Online Edition

The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival (HippFest, est’d 2011) – Scotland’s first and only festival of silent cinema centred in Scotland’s oldest cinema.

Cinema Rediscovered – celebrating the return of the big screen experience

Cinema Rediscovered celebrated the return of the big screen experience in and around Bristol before going on a UK wide tour and online c/o MUBI.

A group of 7 smiling people stand outside of a cinema for a group photo.

Cromarty Community Cinema – New Navigations

Cromarty Cinema’s Young Programmers and two mentors developed a special season focused on Black Scottish history ‘straightening our history’ and women ‘stories of resilience’ of overcoming barriers.

London East Asia Film Festival 2020

The London East Asia Film Festival is the capital’s most celebrated champion of East Asian cinema, extending a hand across cultures through the dynamics of story-telling.

Case study

Beyond Boundaries: Films in your Front Room

Beyond Boundaries 360, in partnership with Watershed delivered a season of online film events showcasing underrepresented voices in film during lockdown. The selected programme was focused on the ideas of community, identity and belonging.

Birds’ Eye View: Covid Community Fund

Ensuring that during a time of desperation for survival in the exhibition industry, that already marginalised communities do not continue to be neglected.