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Tag: inclusive cinema
Creating Trans Inclusive Spaces: Advice and ideas from young trans people – MAP Norfolk
Here, young trans people have shared their experiences, thoughts, and feelings to help others to reflect upon how they may engage fully with the trans population, provide safe and relevant events, services and activities, and create a truly inclusive environment.
BFI 10 great films about queer history
To celebrate LGBTQIA+ History Month, we look at the inventive ways in which filmmakers have tackled queer history.
ICO: Programming Progressively and Responsively in Challenging Times
Following on from a successful panel discussion at ID Screening Days 2024, Nadia M. Oliva explores how organisations can navigate programming and conversations that reflect their values while assessing the risks and challenges of operating in the charged era of contemporary discourse.
Weird Weekend: Providing Audio Description in Non-Theatrical Cinema Spaces
In this blog, Matchbox Cine’s Sean Welsh explains how they’ve managed to reliably and consistently produce and present optional audio description at their Weird Weekend events, which take place in an ‘emerging’ non-theatrical space.
ICO: How do I make my cinema inclusive and accessible?
The ICO has worked with Shape to develop a reference guideline for independent cinemas to improve access in venues for their disabled visitors. Shape is a disability-led arts organisation that for over 30 years has been working to improve access to the arts and culture.
Film + TV charity: Understanding loneliness behind the scenes in film and TV
A report from the Centre of Loneliness Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, looking at existing research on loneliness and highlighting the risks and remedies.
Supporting refugee and asylum seeking children
These resources are for foster carers, social workers, school staff and any other professionals who are supporting asylum seeking and refugee children across England.
The Ultimate Guide To Films About Refugees [100+ Movies & Documentaries]
For thousands of years, displacement and migration have played an essential role in human history. No matter the reason for leaving one’s homeland, the experience of leaving behind everything familiar to journey towards a new, better life is a familiar story. It’s no wonder, then, that so many films have centered around these very themes.
‘I wanted to humanise those lost in the statistics’: four directors on their new movies depicting refugee journeys
How does it feel to risk trafficking and torture to seek a better life in a strange land? Ahead of four films telling migrant stories, we hear from directors including Matteo Garrone and Milad Alami about tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time.
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