Film + TV Charity: Money Matters Report

By Film + TV Charity https://filmtvcharity.org.uk/

Understanding the finances and financial resilience of film, TV, and cinema industry workers.

Film + TV Charity: Looking Glass ’22 Report

By Film + TV Charity https://filmtvcharity.org.uk/

The most recent edition of our landmark study of mental health and wellbeing among the industry workforce.

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

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

Everyday Feminism: How to Create a Safe Space on Social Media

By Everyday Feminism everydayfeminism.com

Safe space means different things to everyone, so it can be tough to create a space that’s accessible and inclusive to a wide range of different needs. It’s even harder to create a safe space on social media. Despite the challenges, here are some of the ways that we can all create a safer space on … More

Social Value Lab: Social Impact Toolkit for Cinemas

By Social Value Lab, Regional Screen Scotland

Social Value Lab has worked with Regional Screen Scotland to produce a new online ‘toolkit’ to help local cinemas across the UK to make the case for how much they matter to their communities, by measuring and understanding their social impacts.

FWD-Doc: Download the FWD-Doc toolkit

By FWD-Doc www.fwd-doc.org

FWD-Doc in association with Doc Society supported by Netflix presents: A Toolkit for Inclusion & Accessibility: Changing the Narrative of Disability in Documentary Film

The Association For Young Peoples Health: Data and Evidence

By The Association For Young Peoples Health

Data and evidence: Access to data and evidence supports higher quality adolescent health and healthcare. We conduct research, evaluate services, produce briefings and compendiums of data for front line practitioners.

7 Documentaries to Watch After Crip Camp

By Disability Visibility Project

If you recently watched Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution and want to learn more here are 7 documentaries by Deaf and disabled people for you to check out. These films are available for either rental, purchase, or by subscription on various platforms and websites. You can find information about captions or audio description by going … More

Using a range of communication channels to reach disabled people

By Gov.UK

This guidance was written for government communicators but may also be useful to other communication professionals. We absorb a wide range of information every day through different communication channels, for example, radio, television, newspapers, advertising, internet and word of mouth. Some of these methods may be out of reach or inaccessible to some disabled people. … More

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