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Welsh Cinemas to develop D/deaf led film screenings for audiences with hearing loss

By Film Hub Wales

Film Hub Wales (FHW) and the Wales Council for Deaf People (WCDP) are working with seven Welsh cinemas, to establish D/deaf volunteer groups who will help to improve cinema experiences for audiences with hearing loss, in their local communities.

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.

Hippodrome Silent Film Festival Online Edition

The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival (HippFest, est’d 2011) – Scotland’s first and only festival of silent cinema centred in Scotland’s oldest cinema.

The latest advice and guidance regarding COVID-19

By National

The latest updates and guidance regarding the Covid-19 outbreak for exhibitors and venues.

This Way Up 2021: Catch up on ‘BFI in Conversation with Mia Bays and Stuart Brown’

By National

On the first day of This Way Up 2021, Mia Bays, recently appointed as Director of BFI Film Fund and Stuart Brown, BFI Head of Programme and Acquisitions (standing in for Ben Luxford, BFI Head of UK Audiences), welcomed attendees at the conference for a conversation, rather than a presentation, about the organisation’s approach to the next 10-years of National Lottery funding.

This Way Up 2021 full programme announced

By National

Ahead of This Way Up 2021 next week, the annual conference for people working in UK film exhibition, the full programme has been unveiled. …

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Caption This Cinema seeks to make UK cinema experiences more accessible

By National

Accessibility advocate Charlotte Little has combined her advocacy for accessible cinema experiences with her passion for curation and programming to develop a brand new pop-up cinema: Caption This Cinema (CTC).

Welsh Government has extended the use of COVID Pass to theatres and cinemas from 15 November.

By Film Hub Wales

After announcing that people will have to show a NHS COVID Pass to enter nightclubs and attend events in Wales, the Welsh Government has extended the use of COVID Pass to theatres, cinemas and concert halls from 15 November.

Sign up to Film Audience Network: Exhibitors’ Breakfast on 12 October

By Stefanie Rodgers

The Film Hub London event is aimed at all film exhibitors – cinemas, festivals, art centres, community groups, local authority film officers, film clubs and freelancers

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.