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October 7, 2020

How audio description (AD) can help make titles and venues even more accessible

By National

This World Sight Day (8 October), Megan Mitchell of Matchbox Cine writes about the importance of audio description (AD) tracks for blind audience members, and why by not including them venues and distributors are potentially ignoring 2 million customers.

October 5, 2020

Cineworld/Picturehouse closure: Independent venues and distributors discuss the impact on the UK exhibition sector

By National

With the closure of Cineworld’s 127 sites and Odeon scaling back its operations in the UK, The Bigger Picture speaks to independent venues and distributors to discuss the impact on the UK exhibition sector.

October 2, 2020

42 cinemas to share £650,000 in first awards from the Culture Recovery Fund for Independent Cinemas

By National

Cinemas across England to benefit in first allocations of government’s £30 million fund for independent cinemas, with more venues to receive cash in coming weeks

September 28, 2020

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.

September 24, 2020

BIFA launches ‘This Is Our Cinema’ marketing campaign for British Independent Film

By National

BIFA has launched an always-on campaign to support British independent film. The campaign will begin with advertisements on social channels aimed at encouraging young audiences to return to cinemas to watch British independent film, supported by an ongoing organic campaign on BIFA’s channels.

September 23, 2020

Film and TV Charity announces new COVID-19 fund to protect film, TV and cinema workers

By National

The Film and TV Charity is announcing a new Covid-19 Recovery Fund that will distribute up to £2m to UK film, TV and cinema workers who have been hit hardest by Covid-19, helping to sustain them and their careers through and out of the pandemic.

September 17, 2020

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.

September 4, 2020

Attract audiences this autumn with these upcoming independent theatrical titles

By National

With Tenet steadily luring audiences back into multiplexes, film writer Neil Ramjee looks at the independent titles that could attract crowds at independent exhibitors.

September 2, 2020

Welsh cultural and heritage organisations eligible for share of £18.5 million of government’s Cultural Recovery Fund

By Film Hub Wales

A new fund from the Welsh Government will see independent cinemas and other venues such as recording and rehearsal studios; Heritage organisations and historic attractions; accredited museums and archive services; libraries; events and their technical support suppliers and the publishing sector being able to bid for a share of £18.5 million.

September 1, 2020

£59 million emergency funding announced for Scottish cultural sector inc. £3.5 million for independent cinemas

By Film Hub Scotland

Culture and heritage sectors are to benefit from a £59 million funding package to protect jobs and help the industry weather the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.