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Wales Youth Festival Network/Wicked Wales

Wales Youth Festival Network (WYFN) is an informal network for supporting film festivals and venues across Wales to screen independent films to young audiences aged 15-26.

Share your thoughts on the new 2023-2033 National Lottery funding strategy

By National

Let the BFI know what is important to you for the new 10-year National Lottery funding strategy.

Applications for Changing Times’ Curious programme are now open

By Film Hub North

Funding is now available for archive film events investigating the unexplored and unexpected.

Exeter Phoenix: Young Audience Panel

In January 2021, Exeter Phoenix worked with a freelance Cinema Outreach Coordinator, Thea Berry, to work on an audience development project aimed at strengthening their visibility to, and to find new ways to reach, audiences under 25, and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic audiences.

BFI FAN Film Exhibition Fund 2022 will continue to support independent film exhibition sector

By National

Regional applications are now open for the BFI FAN Film Exhibition Fund which was founded to help restart the independent film exhibition sector by supporting screening activity which engages in-person audiences with British, independent and international film.

Newly released Welsh film ‘Save The Cinema’ focuses on Carmarthenshire’s Lyric Theatre

By Film Hub Wales

Samantha Morton (Walking Dead) and Tom Felton (Harry Potter) star in a new independent Welsh film, ‘Save the Cinema’, which tells the true story of the fight to save Carmarthenshire’s Lyric Theatre.

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.

A well lit cinema scene, with a presentation on the screen. people are sat watching one seat apart, wearing masks. a person stands at a podium, we look on as if sat in the back row. over the backs of heads they stand lit, commanding the room.

This Way Up 2021: Forthcoming Attractions With Delphine Lievens

By Film Hub South West

Closing the conference Delphine Lievens, Head of Distribution at Bohemia Distribution, presented a slate of optimism for cinemas. “We’ve still got a way to go,” she began, “but we’re going in the right direction.”

62 cinemas awarded over £6 million from UK government’s Culture Recovery Fund

By National

Hundreds of arts, heritage and cultural organisations across England will receive a share of £107 million from the additional £300 million announced by the Chancellor at March’s budget for the Culture Recovery Fund, including 62 cinemas that will received £6 million via the BFI.

London East Asia Film Festival 2020

The London East Asia Film Festival is the capital’s most celebrated champion of East Asian cinema, extending a hand across cultures through the dynamics of story-telling.