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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.

Stroud Film Festival

Stroud Film Festival has grown and evolved over the past few years into a community-wide event with 34 screenings and events appealing to a wide range of tastes at 13 venues across the town.

What is the confidence of minority audiences when it comes to returning to cinemas?

By National

With discussions over the safety of cinemas reopening in the COVID-19 era still ongoing, We Are Parable conducted research on minority audience confidence in returning to the cinema.

Film Hub Scotland New Promoters: Tanatsei Gambura in Conversation

By Film Hub Scotland

The Film Hub Scotland New Promoters scheme is aiming to increase the number of film programmers who are marginalised working for cinemas, festivals and venues within Scotland by providing six-month placements paid at the Living Wage.

Rainbow Film Festival

An inclusive film festival that engages local Bangladeshi communities across East London, with filmmakers sharing their expertise with local audiences through Q&As and seminars.

Scalarama 2020: How programming and organisations can strive to be more inclusive

By National

In June 2020, Matchbox Cineclub hosted a roundtable for Scalarama Glasgow to discuss how organisations, independent exhibitors and programmers can work to make their programmes and events sincerely inclusive.

Cinema Day 2019: Digital Film Archive, Northern Ireland Screen and Wood Green Care Home, Jordanstown

In summer 2019, residents of Wood Green Care Home engaged with Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive, to select footage that reflected their experience of being young, and showcased this during NI Cinema Day 19.

WOFFF: How to host a watch-along

By Film Hub South West

Hosting a watch-along is a great way to stay connected with your audience but what if you’ve never hosted one before? Women Over 50 Film Festival director, Nuala O’Sullivan, hadn’t hosted one either – until recently. Here she outlines the key elements she considers each week as she puts together the WOFFF Watch-along and encourages you to set up your own watch-along.

The Curzon Project (part of NI Cinema Day)

As part of Film Hub NI Cinema Day we presented the brilliant new short documentary that told the story of The Curzon cinema which operated from 1936 to 1999 on Belfast’s Ormeau Road.

Why we need to talk about Black audiences returning to cinemas

By National

With Black, Asian and other ethnic groups being more likely to die from Covid-19, We Are Parable ask: where are the additional measures and guidelines we need to ensure our audiences are protected and safeguarded when they go to the cinema?