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We have collated some guides to help you to increase and improve access for disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent people in your organisations, whether that be for audiences at the cinema or for employees.

Cinemas across the country currently offer specific accessible screenings, such as subtitled, audio described, BSL interpreted, relaxed environment, autism-friendly, and/or dementia-friendly screenings.

UK events

Your Local Cinema lists many subtitled and audio-described screenings

Accessible Screenings UK also list autism-friendly, subtitled and audio-described screenings

downloads

Dementia-friendly screenings: A Guide for Cinemas Autism Friendly Screenings: A guide for cinemas * Oska Bright Film Festival at Opening our Doors - Welcoming learning disabled audiences.pdf * d/Deaf HOH national and regional organisations.xlsx * 888 Film Club at Opening our Doors - For Your Eyes Only.pdf National and regional disability, arts and film organisations

Resources

The BFI FAN: Access Directory

BFI FAN: EDI in Focus - Advocacy Skills for Accessible Screenings

Oska Bright: Welcoming Learning Disabled Audiences Back

And What Next? Demanding Change | THE CINEMA OF IDEAS

Using Film to Tell Disabled Stories | THE CINEMA OF IDEAS

Unlimited: Accessible Recruitment and Employment

Crip Club

Crip Cinema Archive

The Space: Digital Accessibility: Best Practice

Unlimited: Accessible Marketing Guide

Unlimited: Cards for Inclusion

The Bigger Picture Case Study: Universal Accessibility for Schools Screenings

ICO: Where to Begin with Relaxed Screenings

The Hollywood Reporter: A Recent History of the Academy’s Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Efforts

What might a more inclusive film programming world look like?

Caption This: the subtitling champions working to make festivals, screenings and global cinema more accessible

Being Disabled In Britain - A Journey Less Equal

Centering Disabled Arts and Audiences

Planning and Access for Disabled people: A Good Practice Guide

The Fringe Guide to Adapting Events for Deaf and Disabled Audiences

UKCA's CEA Card

Using A Range Of Communication Channels To Reach Disabled People

Accessibility in cinemas: Are cinemas playing fair?

Access Guide - Ensuring your venues and events are open to all

Film + TV Charity: A Guide to Ramadan for the film, TV, cinema and stage industry

By Film + TV Charity & UK Muslim Film

Ramadan is one of the most spiritual times of the year for the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims. Together with UK Muslim Film, Film and TV Charity have put together this handy guide, so you can know how to support your colleagues and friends during the month.

ICO: Where to Begin with Relaxed Screenings

By Rosemary Richings, independentcinemaoffice.org.uk

Everyone deserves access to life-changing cinema, but for those with learning disabilities or neurological conditions, cinema environments can often be inaccessible. In this blog, Rosemary Richings draws on personal experience to discuss the value of relaxed screenings, and speaks to Jonathan Gleneadie (Barbican, London) and Robert Barham (Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds) about the sorts of practical considerations exhibitors should keep … More

Beyond the Black Card: Should Cinemas be Using Content Notices?

By Duncan Carson, Independent Cinema Office (ICO) blog

Content notices are a contentious area. Some see them as a duty of care that film exhibitors owe to their audience, while others say they’re an unnecessary measure and can even be counterproductive. In this blog, the ICO’s Duncan Carson speaks to film professionals who have introduced content notices about their experience and what the … More

Your Fat Friend: Seat Size Is An Access Issue

By Your Fat Friend https://www.yrfatfriendfilm.com/access

Audiences want to know the answer to a very simple question – will they fit? It is very important to us as a film team, for fat audiences and future cinema audiences that venues embrace publishing seat sizing on their websites. On the listing of our screenings but also on the access page. Alongside other … More

Reclaim the Frame: In conversation with Jeanie Finlay and Aubrey Gordon

By Reclaim The Frame https://www.reclaimtheframe.org/

Reclaim The Frame were thrilled to sit down with YOUR FAT FRIEND filmmaker Jeanie Finlay and star Aubrey Gordon while on their UK tour and just ahead of the film’s release into UK cinemas.

The Bigger Picture Case Study: Universal Accessibility for Schools Screenings

By The Bigger Picture https://www.the-bigger-picture.com/

In March 2022 film education charity Into Film partnered with UK cinemas to hold 99 free schools screenings for both primary and secondary pupils on the theme of ‘We Can Be Heroes’. For the first time, exhibitors were asked to screen every film with closed caption Hard of Hearing subtitles. Driven by the principle of … More

Unlimited: Cards for Inclusion

By Unlimited https://weareunlimited.org.uk/

Cards for Inclusion is a card game helping the arts sector by creatively exploring how barriers can be removed. Challenge yourself to think outside the box about how we can all make what we offer more accessible to disabled people.

Unlimited: Accessible Marketing Guide

By Unlimited https://weareunlimited.org.uk/

The Accessible Marketing Guide, contains an introduction to accessibility, the basics of making marketing material accessible, accessible websites, print and text, accessible formats, making social media accessible and a list of useful references that informed the guide as well as further resources.

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