Impact Areas: Awareness / attitudes

Raising awareness of a variety of experiences, cultures, emotions and ideas
Changing attitudes towards others, helping people become more tolerant and self-aware
Helping people imagine different lives and different futures
Catalyst for political, social, cultural and policy change

Case study

Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest: Shades of Queer

A new and unique strand of additional activity specifically focusing on queer and trans people of colour (QTPOC). Taking place in addition to the core festival programme, Shades of Queer consisted of 13 events across 6 venues in 3 London Boroughs, with a programme made up of relevant screenings and panels and Q&As.

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Case study

Reel Equality

Nottinghamshire film club, Reel Equality, counters the dominance of male-focused stories and tired female stereotypes in the mainstream film industry with monthly film screenings that tell diverse and interesting women-centred stories.

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Come The Revolution 2016 at Watershed Case study

Come the Revolution

Come the Revolution is a collective of black curators, programmers and creatives that have been supported by Film Hub SWWM over the past 18 months to develop their practice and deliver a series of screen events in Bristol and Birmingham exploring black lives, culture and identity.

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