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Birmingham Bangla Film Festival community screenings

The Birmingham Bangla Film Festival had the opportunity to expand greatly and more deeply into the diverse socially excluded Asian and other communities in the West Midlands outside the main festival period.

BFI awards over £15.2 million to 11 UK-wide strategic partners to boost creative talent

By Film Hub South West

The new BFI funding will aim to grow cinema audiences, engage 16 to 25 year olds and support talent development across the UK’s nations and England’s regions over three years.

Borderlines Film Festival returns with a cinema-only festival

By Film Hub South West

Supported by the BFI, awarding National Lottery funding, Borderlines Film Festival returns to 22 venues and cinema screens across Herefordshire, Shropshire, Malvern, and the Welsh Marches in its 21st consecutive edition.

How Joyland will transform the perception of Pakistani cinema in the UK

By National

Writing for The Bigger Picture, Welsh-Pakistani writer Yasmin Begum talks about how Joyland, the next BFI FAN New Release title, is set to transform how Pakistani film is experienced across the UK.

Why cinemas should consider programming Joyland this LGBT+ History Month

By National

Writing for The Bigger Picture, BFI FAN Young Programmer Yasmin Begum writes about the importance of the latest BFI FAN New Release title Joyland and its impact on queer cinema in the UK.

BFI FAN Cinema Stories: We Are Parable

By Film Hub London

BFI FAN Cinema Stories shares experiences of venues all over the country to highlight the innovations and challenges that exhibitors currently face within the…

Off Y Grid

In 2016, Film Hub Wales approached venues across North Wales to develop a project designed to reduce isolation, build creative infrastructure and generate buzz around British independent and international films.

BFI FAN members collaborate for UK-wide 50th anniversary tour of Blacula

By Film Hub South West

This year, Abertoir Film Festival, in partnership with Bristol Black Horror Club and as part of BFI’s In Dreams are Monsters season, a UK-wide celebration of horror on film, marked 50 years of the cult Blaxploitation movie.

MetFilm Distribution’s Fashion Reimagined receives New Release support from BFI FAN

By National

In Fashion Reimagined, follow trailblazing fashion designer Amy Powney who is on a mission to create a sustainable collection from field to finished garment and transform the way we engage with fashion. The film will be released theatrically by MetFilm Distribution on 3 March 2023.

This Way Up 2022: Opening Up The Archive

By Film Hub South West

Over the last ten years, curatorial innovations and digital resources have radically transformed public engagement with moving image archive, giving new life to film collections. At DCA Dundee for This Way Up 2022, a panel spoke about how young audiences are discovering film heritage in a whole new light – Camilla Baier writes for The Bigger Picture about what was discussed.