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Skye Community Cinema: Bringing monthly independent film to Skye

Skye Community Cinema brings monthly special event screenings to the Isle of Skye including Q&As and donating to local charities.

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…

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.

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.

Dardishi Festival

Dardishi is an artistically ambitious community arts project that showcases the cultural production of Arab and North African womxn* in Glasgow.

A still from Rafiki. Two people gaze at each other lit by pink light. The person on the left has long braided hair. The person on the right wears sunglasses and a backwards cap.

Africa in Motion: Queer Africa

The Queer Africa strand was a focused strand in the 2018 edition of Africa in Motion Film Festival and in their year round programme focusing on showcasing LGBTQ+ films from Africa and the diaspora.

Stirling Women’s Aid take over Macrobert Arts Centre

In May 2019 Stirling Women’s Aid took over the film programming at Macrobert Arts Centre.

‘Out at the Cameo’ was a project delivered by Picturehouse at the Cameo cinema, aimed to recruit and train a group of young people to give them the skills and confidence to establish and programme a new LGBTQ+ strand at the cinema.

A Wall Is A Screen: Leith

A Wall Is A Screen: Leith was a free guided short film walk with films projected onto the exterior of buildings after dark.

Bringing Film to the Westerly Edge

To develop inclusive cinema serving rural/isolated audiences on the Isle of Tiree, the most westerly of the Inner Hebrides. Tiree has a population of 650 and the nearest cinema is 4 hours away on a ferry. The project was initiated by Jen Skinner in December 2015 using an old projector in the cattle market.