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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.
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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.
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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.
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With Tenet steadily luring audiences back into multiplexes, film writer Neil Ramjee looks at the independent titles that could attract crowds at independent exhibitors.
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Case study
Over the course of 2019 and 2020, South West Silents showcased the way that silent film could (and should) be correctly screened with the best restorations from around the world and the best musicians to play live alongside the films.
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From Summer 2019 to Spring 2020, BFI FAN supported a further four New Releases as part its ongoing work to help exhibitors across the UK engage with more diverse audiences, and programme more titles that might be perceived as being ‘risky’ or ‘too challenging’.
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The BFI has announced the BFI FAN Film Exhibition Fund is now open, with National Lottery funding available to exhibitors across the UK.
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Case study
Leytonstone Loves Film was a two-day celebration of film taking place at the end of September 2019. It was commissioned by London Borough of Waltham Forest and produced by the Barbican leading a consortium of film organisations to celebrate International Film culture and explore the unique cinema legacy of the local community and environment. There were two days of family programming, including screenings of multiple shorts and features as well as workshops and activities.
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With summer blockbuster release dates in a constant state of flux, we spoke to Joan Parsons of Queen’s Film Theatre and Kenji Lloyd of Altitude Films to find out how these changes are affecting exhibitors and indie distributors alike.
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In 2020, Cheltenham International Film Festival became the first international film festival in the UK to go online to the British public.
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