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BFI FAN: Green Hour – Tracking Environmental Impact
The fifth BFI FAN: Green Hour, this session will explore how to track your organisation’s environmental impact with sustainability reporting tools.
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Registration now open for ICO Spring Screening Days!
Join the Independent Cinema Office for Spring Screening Days 2023 – a hybrid event running at BFI Southbank, London and online!
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BFI FAN Cinema Stories: The Palace Cinema – Broadstairs, Kent
BFI FAN Cinema Stories shares experiences of venues all over the country to highlight the innovations and challenges that exhibitors currently face within the sector.
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Right of Way: a new touring film programme exploring equity of access to the UK countryside
From the Independent Cinema Office and Lux comes a new national touring film programme examining access and inclusion in the UK countryside, featuring new film commissions by artists Ufuoma Essi, Dan Guthrie and Arjuna Neuman, plus a curated programme of archive film.
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The results of Independent Cinema Office’s UK Film Exhibition Workforce Survey
The Independent Cinema Office have released the results of their UK Film Exhibition Workforce Survey, which provide a snapshot of who is working in film exhibition, what needs to change, and what skills and training the sector requires to develop.
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ID Screening Days 2021: Ashley Clark on responsive and engaged film programming
Writing for The Bigger Picture, film programmer Thea Berry talks about the impact of Ashley Clark’s keynote speech at ID Screening Days 2021.
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Ultimate Picture Palace’s life in a third national lockdown
As cinemas all around the country remain shut in a third national lockdown, Marketing & Events Manager Tom Jowett of Oxford’s Ultimate Picture Palace talks about what the staff of the independent cinema have been doing to continue engaging with their audience.
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ICO survey: Reopening cinema the independent way
The Independent Cinema Office has conducted a survey to help us create a picture of the independent sector’s views on industry proposals for reopening cinemas.
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Independent cinema exhibition in the time of COVID-19
These are strange times for many independent cinema exhibitors. With the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down all public venues, many have had to adapt in order to keep engaging their audience. Rebecca del Tufo, Programming Manager at Saffron Screen, explains what her and her colleagues have been doing over the past few weeks.
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The impact of COVID-19 on the exhibition industry
The Independent Cinema Office has conducted a survey to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the exhibition industry to understand how cinemas can survive in the immediate crisis and be sustainable following resumption of service.
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Bracknell Film Society in the Running for National Dementia Friendly Award
Volunteer-run Bracknell Film Society (BFS) has been shortlisted in the Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friendly Awards 2017.
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