Africa in Motion

Africa in Motion is an Edinburgh-based annual African film festival, managed and run as a not-for-profit organisation. The festival is directed by Lizelle Bisschoff and Stefanie Van de Peer, both researchers in African cinema, and is organised by a dedicated team of about 10 part-time staff and volunteers.

Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Festival

Fringe! is a film and arts festival rooted in London’s queer creative scene and welcoming everyone. Shades of Queer is a new and unique strand of additional activity specifically focusing on queer and trans people of colour (QTPOC) that took place in addition to the core festival programme.

Scottish Queer International Film Festival

Project overview Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) was founded in 2014, holding its first one-off screening in September of that year and 3 annual Festivals since then. Attendance has grown from 1801 at our first festival in 2015 to 4609 in 2017 (a 156% increase). SQIFF’s audiences are made up of diverse LGBTQ+ communities … More

The Time is Now

Project overview In partnership with the new releases of Suffragette, and He Named Me Malala, The Time is Now project aimed to engage young female audiences with a film programme that foregrounded the role women play in affecting change, giving both a historical and global perspective of the ongoing struggle for gender equality. Films screened … More

Equality Guide

The aim of this guide is to give you practical ideas about how to increase diversity in both those who experience the arts (audiences) and those who participate in making art (creators).

Case for Support Training Video

Laura Greenfield explains the fundraising term ‘case for support’ and why this document is important to your development activities. She provides a step-by-step guide to creating your organisation’s case for support and how to tailor it to meet the needs of your different donors.

Bringing Film to the Westerly Edge

The project was created 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 … More