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Film Hub NI to tour Belfast-based film Nowhere Special around Northern Ireland

A special tour of Belfast based film Nowhere Special is being organised by Film Hub NI (FHNI) as part of its Collective programme which…

Make your cinema a destination for students with the Art Fund’s Student Art Pass

By National

Make your independent cinema a destination for Student Art Pass members with tickets for £5 or less.

UKCACON21: Massive champions cinema to young people all over the UK

By National

At the UK Cinema Associations’ 2021 conference, ‘The Big Screen Experience: The Next Chapter’, David Kapur, co-founder of elevenfiftyfive and ourscreen, outlined how MASSIVE events have helped younger audience members connect with cinema.

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.

An Examination of East and Southeast Asians (ESEA) Films in the UK and Audience Development

By National

Vicki Brown (Co-Founder of MilkTea Films) and Delphine Lievens (Senior Box Office Analyst at Gower Street Analytics) examine the history of East and Southeast Asian titles in the UK as well as ideas on how exhibitors can better cultivate British East and Southeast Asian audiences.

Sovereign Film Distribution’s Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn receives New Release Support from BFI FAN

By National

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, the latest film from Romanian director Radu Jude, is the latest film to receive BFI FAN New Release Support. The social satire will be released theatrically by Sovereign Film Distribution on 26 November.

Celebrate Black History Month with these BFI titles from pioneering black directors

By National

Throughout October, BFI are celebrating the Black creatives who have enriched cinema and put Black voices and stories on screen. For exhibitors, the BFI are offering a number of titles to BFI FAN members that highlight stories of pain and joy, rage and resistance.

ID Screening Days 2021: Ashley Clark on responsive and engaged film programming

By Film Hub South East

Writing for The Bigger Picture, film programmer Thea Berry talks about the impact of Ashley Clark’s keynote speech at ID Screening Days 2021.

Sign up to Film Audience Network: Exhibitors’ Breakfast on 12 October

By Stefanie Rodgers

The Film Hub London event is aimed at all film exhibitors – cinemas, festivals, art centres, community groups, local authority film officers, film clubs and freelancers

Independent Cinema Office Survey Results: The continuing impact of Covid-19

By National

Nineteen months on since the first national lockdown, three further shutdowns, and a recovery package from the government, the Independent Cinema Office (ICO) conducted a survey to help us understand the continuing impact of Covid-19 on the independent cinema sector.