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Beyond Boundaries: Films in your Front Room

Beyond Boundaries 360, in partnership with Watershed delivered a season of online film events showcasing underrepresented voices in film during lockdown. The selected programme was focused on the ideas of community, identity and belonging.

An Examination of East and Southeast Asians (ESEA) Films in the UK and Audience Development

By National

Vicki Brown (Co-Founder of MilkTea Films) and Delphine Lievens (Senior Box Office Analyst at Gower Street Analytics) examine the history of East and Southeast Asian titles in the UK as well as ideas on how exhibitors can better cultivate British East and Southeast Asian audiences.

Celebrate Black History Month with these BFI titles from pioneering black directors

By National

Throughout October, BFI are celebrating the Black creatives who have enriched cinema and put Black voices and stories on screen. For exhibitors, the BFI are offering a number of titles to BFI FAN members that highlight stories of pain and joy, rage and resistance.

ID Screening Days 2021: Ashley Clark on responsive and engaged film programming

By Film Hub South East

Writing for The Bigger Picture, film programmer Thea Berry talks about the impact of Ashley Clark’s keynote speech at ID Screening Days 2021.

Screen The Breadwinner for free on International Day of Peace to support Afghan women and girls

By National

To coincide with the International Day of Peace (21 September), Birds’ Eye View (BEV) have organised a day for the film industry and its audiences to fundraise for projects that support Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and those newly arrived in the UK.

Birds’ Eye View: Covid Community Fund

Ensuring that during a time of desperation for survival in the exhibition industry, that already marginalised communities do not continue to be neglected.

Image: Cinema Rediscovered 2021 at Watershed, Bristol c/o © Chelsey Cliff

Catch up on Cinema Rediscovered 2021!

By Film Hub South West

If you weren’t able to make it to Bristol for Cinema Rediscovered or missed the online events, you can catch up here!

Journeys Into Films offering programme of shorts made by refugees filmmakers to exhibitors screening Limbo

By National

To celebrate the release of Limbo by MUBI on 30 July, BFI FAN have teamed up with ArtReach to offer you the opportunity to add a short film to your screening.

UNIC launches fifth edition of the Women’s Cinema Leadership Programme

By National

The International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), the European cinema trade grouping, today launched the fifth edition of its Women’s Cinema Leadership Programme, a 12-month mentoring programme for women in cinema exhibition.

Dardishi Festival

Dardishi is an artistically ambitious community arts project that showcases the cultural production of Arab and North African womxn* in Glasgow.