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Looking back on ten years of the Film In Hospital project
Posted on August 5, 2022

Working with a network of nearly 200 hospitals across six countries, Film in Hospital is a groundbreaking European project that helps children who are physically unable to attend cinema screenings gain access to exclusive festival films, while involving them in a wide range of creative activities. In this blog, Davide Abbatescianni (Ireland correspondent for Cineuropa) speaks to three representatives from Film in Hospital to find out more about their story and future plans.
News & Opportunities:
July 2022 Round-Up
Posted on July 28, 2022

Our regular monthly update featuring the latest news and opportunities for your cinema, festival or film society.
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Nurturing Reciprocity in African Film
Posted on July 22, 2022

Patrice Robinson, Cinema Assistant at the Barbican, writes about first watching Maangamizi: The Ancient One, a 2001 Tanzanian film that will screen on the 31st July at the Barbican, which caused her to reflect on her own identity as a member of the African diaspora and the obstacles to visibility and availability that African films continue to face.
Good Governance: The path to a healthy, happy and thriving organisation
Posted on July 7, 2022

Governance is the backbone of how your organisation functions; how it survives today and thrives in the future. Following a series of seminars on governance led by the NCVO, the ICO's Projects and Business Manager Duncan Carson reflects on the hallmarks of good governance and offers some advice to those who want to begin making changes in their organisations.
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News & Opportunities:
June 2022 round-up
Posted on June 30, 2022

Our regular monthly update featuring the latest news and opportunities for your cinema, festival or film society.
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FEDS International: My time at Outfest Fusion
Posted on June 28, 2022

FEDS International offers FEDS alumni the chance to secure a short-term placement with an international exhibition partner, providing an opportunity to develop their skills and understanding of the wider exhibition sector, forge connections with international colleagues and build on their past FEDS experience. Having just returned from Los Angeles where they took part in Outfest Fusion’s inaugural Programming Fellowship, Rico Johnson-Sinclair (Race Equality Lead at BFI and Director & Film Programmer at CineQ) details their experience and how it's changed the way they'll approach their own exhibition work in the UK moving forwards.
Feast from the East: Commissioned bread recipes from displaced Ukrainian chefs
Posted on June 27, 2022

Spotlighting some of the region’s richest cinematic fruit, Feast from the East is a celebration of the food, feasts and famously fertile soil of Eastern Europe. Streaming on the Cinema of Ideas from 27 June - 11 July, the programme includes Sergei Parajanov's The Colour of Pomegranates, Oleksandr Dovzhenko's Earth and Mykola Shpykovskyi's Bread, as well as a 'dinner-table’ discussion with experts on Soviet cinema, and a cooking masterclass with chef and activist Alissa Timoshkina. Tickets are free, but we encourage donations, which will be split between two fundraising campaigns in support of Ukraine.
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Cannes 2022: Our Favourites from the Festival (Part Two)
Posted on June 23, 2022

In this second blog of two, we highlight a few more of our favourite titles from this year's 75th Cannes Film Festival, including new work by Park Chan-Wook, Agnieszka Smoczynska and Ruben Östlund, as well as several impressive feature debuts.
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Cannes 2022: Our Favourites from the Festival (Part One)
Posted on June 9, 2022

In this first blog of two, we highlight some of our favourite titles from this year's 75th Cannes Film Festival, including new work by Hirokazu Kore-eda, Kelly Reichardt, Mia Hansen-Løve and more.
News & Opportunities:
May 2022 round up
Posted on May 26, 2022

Our regular monthly update featuring the latest news and opportunities for your cinema, festival or film society.

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