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Inclusive Cinema launches T.L.C.: a new podcast mini-series for trans curators, writers and thinkers within cinema exhibition

By Film Hub South West

Inclusive Cinema has launched a new T.L.C. (aka Tender Loving Care for Trans-Led/Trans-Loved Cinema) podcast resource is creating a space for the trans community and cis allies alike to celebrate, learn and share.

BFI FAN members collaborate for UK-wide 50th anniversary tour of Blacula

By Film Hub South West

This year, Abertoir Film Festival, in partnership with Bristol Black Horror Club and as part of BFI’s In Dreams are Monsters season, a UK-wide celebration of horror on film, marked 50 years of the cult Blaxploitation movie.

This Way Up 2022: Defying and (re)Defining: how genre programming is claiming its spot in the limelight

By Film Hub South West

Neil Hepburn writes how genre cinema is making a come-back with This Way Up 2022 guests Melissa Gueneau (Programmer, Mayhem Film Festival and Warwick Arts Centre), Andrew Partridge (Founder, Scotland Loves Anime) and Nia Edwards-Behi (Co-director, Abertoir Horror Festival) with chair Manon Euler (Programmes Manager, Film Hub Midlands) discussing its resurgence.

Stroud Film Festival 2022

The eighth festival ran in person from 4-27 March 2022 at 10 independent venues across Stroud, returning after the online only events in 2021.

New Trans Stories with Welsh Connections coming to cinemas in 2022

By Film Hub South West

With the support of Film Hub Wales’ (FHW) Made in Wales (MIW) project, two new films from Welsh talent, that follow the lives of Trans women in India and the USA, are coming to cinemas this year.

Inclusive Cinema: Celebrate Pride Month this June

By Film Hub South West

June is LGBT Pride Month in the United Kingdom. It commemorates the Stonewall riots and aims to recognize the impact LGBTQ people have had and continue to have across the world.

Inclusive Cinema: Deaf Awareness Week

By Film Hub South West

There are many ways in which cinemas and exhibitors can get involved to promote d/Deaf awareness from 2-8 May.

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.

Cinema Rediscovered – celebrating the return of the big screen experience

Cinema Rediscovered celebrated the return of the big screen experience in and around Bristol before going on a UK wide tour and online c/o MUBI.

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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.