Diversity Archives - The Bigger Picture

Birmingham Bangla Film Festival community screenings

The Birmingham Bangla Film Festival had the opportunity to expand greatly and more deeply into the diverse socially excluded Asian and other communities in the West Midlands outside the main festival period.

An Indian Summer Outdoor Cinema

An Indian Summer ran 3 Outdoor Cinema events safely with 520 attendees across the Midlands after a hiatus of not running live events for over 1.5 years due to the pandemic. It was a momentous moment for them to reconnect with audience in Leicester and Birmingham.

Build Your Own Film Night

Flatpack has developed a series of workshops to give young people the tools and knowledge to build their own film night!

CineQ Queer Film Festival

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.

Strange Worlds, Changing Utopia, Victoria Park Productions

Strange Worlds, Changing Utopias Film Season was an originally curated season celebrating archive film and dynamic new stories exploring the pressing issues of our past, present and future. The season aimed to respond to the most important issues facing society today: people and the ever changing relationship to our environment.

Three resources for film exhibitors from Film Research

By Film Hub Midlands

A free library of hundreds of reports, research documents, toolkits, and data sets – now available in one place for the first time, indexed, and searchable.

Reel Equality

Nottinghamshire film club, Reel Equality, counters the dominance of male-focused stories and tired female stereotypes in the mainstream film industry with monthly film screenings that tell diverse and interesting women-centred stories.