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On the 2nd and 3rd March 2021, join a free two-day virtual conference on the diversity of film audience experience in the UK.
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Season 5 of Pilot Light TV Festival was due to hit the big screen in May 2020, then COVID-19 hit, and a journey to take over the small screen began…
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BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival reveals plans for the 35th edition of the Festival from 17th- 28th March 2021.
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Film Hub NI is launching an innovative training programme Moving Pictures, to encourage independent and community cinemas, film festivals and venues across Northern Ireland to explore online opportunities to engage audiences with the best of local and international film.
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Over 40 leading figures from the UK film industry have written to the Chancellor requesting targeted funding support for the UK’s biggest cinema operators.
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Flatpack has developed a series of workshops to give young people the tools and knowledge to build their own film night!
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A second round of funding offering an additional £14 million through the Culture Recovery Fund is now open to independent cinemas in England whose businesses have been unavoidably interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and will continue to support them as they transition back to a viable and sustainable way of operating in the months ahead.
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Case study
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.
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As 2020 comes to an end with many of the year’s planned releases thrown into turmoil, Jack Bell looks ahead and how distribution could change in 2021.
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Did you miss this year’s This Way Up? Don’t worry, now you can re-watch all the sessions.
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