Project overview Why the project matters Through working with autism and learning disabilities arts charity, Square Pegs, we identified that we weren’t reaching a local audience of learning disabled and autistic young adults, who currently do not access, experience and appreciate film through a local cinema experience. However, we also identified that our current set … More
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
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
Project overview Why the project matters All people deserve a cultural offering of their choosing. Aims Provide a film experience for people who prefer to watch in a safe and low sensory environment. Broaden understanding – programme is eclectic and seeks to challenge audiences. We’ve screened horrors, comedies, ’80s classics and even a stunning documentary … More
The festival takes place every other year and in its “off” year the festival tours around the UK and the world. In its eighth edition, Oska Bright Film Festival ran over three days (15 – 17 November 2017), showing more than 60 films from all around the world, with over 3600 people attending. If you’d … More
Project overview Watershed and Bristol Health Partners put together this season to increase awareness of psychosis and to launch the Psychosis Health Integration Team (HIT), which works to improve the support, treatment, services and lives of people with psychosis in the Bristol area. The season was designed to uncover the creativity often inherent in psychosis … More
The Hippodrome cinema was built in 1911 by Bo’ness cinematography pioneer Louis Dickson and designed by local architect Matthew Steele. It reopened in 2009 following a £2m refurbishment and is now run by Falkirk Council. The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival was started in 2011 and is Scotland’s only silent film festival. The Festival runs a series … More
WOFFF launched in 2015. It’s a new film festival, finding its feet and wanting to grow and learn with each annual iteration. Project overview Why the project matters Many women, not only in the film industry but in almost all areas of their lives, face the double whammy of #everydaysexism and #everydayageism. Campaigns like #TimesUp … More
Black Moon Film Club hosts screenings all over Northern Ireland, with a home in Belfast’s Black Box arts venue in the Cathedral Quarter area of the city. The film club has been supported by Film Hub NI who offer funding and audience development support to film exhibitors in Northern Ireland. Black Moon Film Club is an inclusive … More
Project overview A short film programme curated by Wotever DIY Film Festival presenting an exciting selection of performative work by functionally diverse filmmakers exploring the intersections of queerness and disability. All films are captioned for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing audiences and are audio described for visually impaired audiences. The programme has been screened 3 … More
