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Film Hub NI launches ‘Moving Pictures’ to encourage greater access to films for audiences across Northern Ireland

Film Hub NI is launching an innovative training programme Moving Pictures, to encourage independent and community cinemas, film festivals and venues across Northern Ireland to explore online opportunities to engage audiences with the best of local and international film.

UK film figures push for funding for UK cinema sector in open letter to government

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Over 40 leading figures from the UK film industry have written to the Chancellor requesting targeted funding support for the UK’s biggest cinema operators.

Build Your Own Film Night

Flatpack has developed a series of workshops to give young people the tools and knowledge to build their own film night!

Second Round of Culture Recovery Fund for Independent Cinemas now open

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A second round of funding offering an additional £14 million through the Culture Recovery Fund is now open to independent cinemas in England whose businesses have been unavoidably interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and will continue to support them as they transition back to a viable and sustainable way of operating in the months ahead.

The latest advice and guidance regarding COVID-19

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The latest updates and guidance regarding the Covid-19 outbreak for exhibitors and venues.

Updated: BFI and Camelot reunite for National Lottery Cinema Weekend 2021

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To celebrate the National Lottery’s support for film, and to provide support for UK cinemas, National Lottery Cinema Weekend will be returning on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th March 2021.

CineQ Queer Film Festival

Starting as a community cinema operating in Birmingham, CineQ seeks to grow appetites and audiences for Queer and LGBTQIA+ films whilst champion New Queer Cinema in the region – with a focus on the perspectives of Queer Trans and Intersex People of Colour (QTIPOC)
CineQ has now grown into a two day festival supported by BFI FAN Film Hub Midlands.

What will distribution in 2021 look like?

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As 2020 comes to an end with many of the year’s planned releases thrown into turmoil, Jack Bell looks ahead and how distribution could change in 2021.

Revisit This Way Up 2020

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Did you miss this year’s This Way Up? Don’t worry, now you can re-watch all the sessions.

Vertigo Releasing’s Sound of Metal receives New Release Support from BFI FAN

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Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal, starring Riz Ahmed, is the latest film to receive BFI FAN New Release support.