Projects aimed at developing young audiences (under 30 years old) and/or co-produced with young people leaving a legacy of skills, confidence and enthusiasm for the sector.
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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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Skye Community Cinema brings monthly special event screenings to the Isle of Skye including Q&As and donating to local charities.
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CinemaAttic was established in 2008 in Edinburgh as an arts and culture blog to provide a platform for thoughts and ideas about independent cinema. The…
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Cromarty Cinema’s Young Programmers and two mentors developed a special season focused on Black Scottish history ‘straightening our history’ and women ‘stories of resilience’ of overcoming barriers.
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Dardishi is an artistically ambitious community arts project that showcases the cultural production of Arab and North African womxn* in Glasgow.
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With younger audiences preferring to watch films on streaming services, film student Jess Partington writes how cinemas need to adapt in a changing landscape.
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This Way Up 2019 saw a reverse panel of film students ask exhibitors questions about the challenges the industry and how it could change over the next few years. We invited them to write about their experiences attending the conference.
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This year’s This Way Up, a two-day gathering for those working in the exhibition sector that explores new ideas in audience behaviours, looks at emerging trends and ideas, and discusses the future of cinema, will be focusing on Resilience, Celebration and the Future with a wide range of workshops and speakers.
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‘Out at the Cameo’ was a project delivered by Picturehouse at the Cameo cinema, aimed to recruit and train a group of young people to give them the skills and confidence to establish and programme a new LGBTQ+ strand at the cinema.
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To develop inclusive cinema serving rural/isolated audiences on the Isle of Tiree, the most westerly of the Inner Hebrides. Tiree has a population of 650 and the nearest cinema is 4 hours away on a ferry. The project was initiated by Jen Skinner in December 2015 using an old projector in the cattle market.
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