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Cineworld/Picturehouse closure: Independent venues and distributors discuss the impact on the UK exhibition sector

By National

With the closure of Cineworld’s 127 sites and Odeon scaling back its operations in the UK, The Bigger Picture speaks to independent venues and distributors to discuss the impact on the UK exhibition sector.

How cinema can help us to value people with mental illnesses

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With the release of Eternal Beauty, film critic Sophie Monks Kaufman looks at the portrayal of mental health in cinema and why its accurate representation is so important.

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.

7 principles to ensure an inclusive recovery

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We Shall Not Be Removed has worked in partnership with Ramps on the Moon, Attitude is Everything, Paraorchestra, and What Next? to create a new guide for the arts and entertainment sectors to support disability inclusion.

Attract audiences this autumn with these upcoming independent theatrical titles

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With Tenet steadily luring audiences back into multiplexes, film writer Neil Ramjee looks at the independent titles that could attract crowds at independent exhibitors.

Into Film: No Barriers to Cinema for young d/Deaf audiences

A doubleheader of educational special events from Into Film celebrating language, communication and d/Deaf cultural identity.

Oska Bright Film Festival: Moving the learning disability film festival online during lockdown

By National

Many film events and festivals have had to adapt since the COVID-19 outbreak, but for the Oska Bright Film Festival, the leading learning disability film festival in the world, the lockdown brought a host of unique challenges.

Impact Areas: Awareness / attitudes

Cineworld/Picturehouse closure: Independent venues and distributors discuss the impact on the UK exhibition sector

How cinema can help us to value people with mental illnesses

7 principles to ensure an inclusive recovery

Attract audiences this autumn with these upcoming independent theatrical titles

Moving Cheltenham International Film Festival 2020 online