In 2015 Cinema For All started our Reaching Communities project and began collaborating with disadvantaged and marginalised communities all over the UK to provided them with all the training, support and assistance they needed to establish their own community cinemas and film screenings.
Black and minority ethnic people make up 17% of English arts workforce and disabled people account for 4%, report finds.
Today Directors UK releases its new report looking at the under-representation and under-employment of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) directors: UK Television: Adjusting the Colour Balance. Our report reveals the shocking statistic that only 1.5% of UK television is made by a BAME director.
Writers’ Guild says number of women in film and TV has ‘flatlined’ and urges commissioners to ‘let women tell stories’.
How many people in the UK are gay, lesbian or bisexual? The Office for National Statistics reckons it’s 1.5% while the Kinsey report says it’s 10%. Who’s right?
An app that creates an audio description soundtrack for films is helping blind people ‘see’ at the cinema – but not enough is being done to implement the technology.
My Life Films combine music, photos, clips and interviews to celebrate the lives of those with dementia – and help carers build better patient relationships.
Creative Scotland On Screen: Film Strategy 2014-17 aims to broaden cinema access and programming in Scotland for as wide and diverse an audience as possible and to encourage and deepen audience engagement with film.
Rural community film exhibition (‘community exhibition’) can take many different forms, from traditional film societies screening films to members with a common interest in film appreciation, to pop-up screening events in non-traditional venues and village hall screening programmes offered by local groups for social and recreational purposes.
The Experiences and Impact of Local Cinema in Scotland: An Exploratory Study.
