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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.

This Way Up 2020: The need for diversifying British Film Culture

By National

Vicki Brown writes for The Bigger Picture about the main takeaways from This Way Up 2020’s session on Diversifying British Film Culture.

Strategic Interventions

Targeting low areas of provision in the Midlands, Strategic Interventions delivered activity in collaboration with on-the-ground partners to provide sustainable, better connected, more visible, and a more ambitious film scene.

Drag artist Grace Oni Smith poses in character as Hedwig before a performance on the Live Cinema UK tour

Cabaret & Hedwig and the Angry Inch on tour

Live Cinema UK and Make a Scene put on an all-singing, all-dancing, cult, queer movie show for BFI Musicals!

How cinema can help us to value people with mental illnesses

By National

With the release of Eternal Beauty, film critic Sophie Monks Kaufman looks at the portrayal of mental health in cinema and why its accurate representation is so important.

Strange Worlds, Changing Utopia, Victoria Park Productions

Strange Worlds, Changing Utopias Film Season was an originally curated season celebrating archive film and dynamic new stories exploring the pressing issues of our past, present and future. The season aimed to respond to the most important issues facing society today: people and the ever changing relationship to our environment.

7 principles to ensure an inclusive recovery

By National

We Shall Not Be Removed has worked in partnership with Ramps on the Moon, Attitude is Everything, Paraorchestra, and What Next? to create a new guide for the arts and entertainment sectors to support disability inclusion.

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.

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.

We need to talk about harassment

By National

Experiencing harassment and bullying are some of the most difficult situations a person can face in the workplace. No workplace is immune to these issues as highlighted this week.