Our regular monthly update featuring the latest news and opportunities for your cinema, festival or film society.
ICO News
- It’s your last chance to register for September’s Inclusion & Diversity Screening Days, taking place online and at Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal. We’ve just announced the final programme, which includes this year’s winner of the Queer Palme at Cannes, Joyland, and a session where University of Manchester Professor Andrew Miles will explore who defines culture and why this matters to film exhibitors. Registration closes tomorrow, Friday 26 August.
- We are now taking bookings for Right of Way, a new feature-length programme that mixes stunning new artists’ commissions with historical archive films that give a bigger picture of questions of access and inclusion in the UK countryside.
- Next month we’ll be streaming Life in the Woods on the Cinema of Ideas. A week-long film event celebrating the wonder which can be found in nature and charting a path towards a sustainable future on Earth. The programme includes the Lucile Hadžihalilović’s short film De Natura, cult documentary The Moon and the Sledgehammer and a live conversation between Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, authors of the recently-published Half-Earth Socialism.
- We’ve put out an open call for two guest curators or film collectives to create innovative programmes for the Cinema of Ideas online platform. If you have any questions about the opportunity, we have an online information session taking place on Tuesday 30 August at 7pm. You have until 12 September to submit your proposal.
- This month we published our new Fundraising Guide, a free resource to help organisations build a sustainable core of funding and successfully deliver ambitious cinema projects.
- From October 2022 to December 2022 we will be running a nationwide tour as part of the BFI blockbuster season In Dreams Are Monsters. Our menu of films offers excellent entry points to the history of horror for you to share with your audience. More information on the films and booking terms can be found here.
- We’re still taking bookings for The Camera is Ours, an archive programme showcasing the early and innovative work of female documentary filmmakers.
- We are once again looking for pitches for the ICO Blog! If you have an idea for an article on film exhibition, email Jake at: jake.abatan@independentcinemaoffice.org.uk. Our pitching guidelines can be found here.
Opportunities
- Sidecard, a new searchable website for recording and researching access materials created for films is now live.
- Exhibitors in the South East of England can sign up to Film Hub South East’s next training session on making your cinema environmentally sustainable, taking place at Depot, Lewes, on 20 September.
- Oska Bright Film Festival are asking film exhibitors to fill out this survey, to help the sector better welcome learning disabled audiences to their venues.
- Budding art writers have until 26 September to apply for the Michael O’Pray Prize 2022, an award for new writing on innovation and experimentation in the moving image. Three successful applicants will be selected to realise their proposed text, which will be published by Art Monthly and Film & Video Umbrella.
- Accreditation is now open for Industry and BFI Film Academy accreditation at this year’s BFI London Film Festival.
- As part of Open City Documentary Festival, Matchbox Cineclub are hosting The Lifecycle of a Subtitle: a workshop to discuss and demonstrate in real time how access materials for films are created. You can book your place here.
- Screen Scotland has launched a revamped Film Festival and Screening Programme Fund, to support organisations who produce film festivals and screening programmes that increase the reach, depth, and diversity of screen culture for audiences in Scotland.
- For film exhibitors in Scotland, you can now book Reel Roots: Black History Month. The programme offers six bold films that speak to strength in the Black experience, with a focus on inspirational lives.
- There are currently roles available at Film Hub Wales, Institut Français, Watershed, CinemaAttic and more.
Upcoming film screenings & seasons
- There are some interesting events at the Barbican next month, including a talk on/and screening of some of Andy Warhol’s most seminal films, and the second title in their Cinema Restored season: The Last Supper (1976, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
- Reel Steel is presenting a series of cult, classic and genre film screenings at Sheffield’s historic Abbeydale Picture House from this bank holiday weekend.
- Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (BFMAF) has changed the dates of the festival, now taking place from 3–5 March 2023.
- The National Film Board of Canada’s Indigenous Cinema collection offers over 200 short films from the last seven decades available to stream for free.
Good reads/watches/listens
- Cinema Rediscovered 2022 Talk: Reframing Film – The Ripple Effect of Festivals (YouTube)
- Cinema Rediscovered 2022 Talk: Pre-code Hollywood: Rules are Made to be Broken (YouTube)
- Flatpack’s inclusive recruitment journey, so far
- Il Cinema Ritrovato Dispatch: How This Annual Celebration Of Cinema History Is Revitalising Film Culture (Article)
- You’ve seen Nope, now let’s make sense of it (Article)
- The Current Debate: The HBO-Discovery Merger and the Future of Streaming (Article)
- Orlando in One Shot (Article)
- 10 great British films of 2002 (Article)
- The Film Comment Podcast: The Future of Attention with Noa Levin and Giovanni Carmine
- Making festivals more accessible for disabled attendees just got easier (Article)
- Reigniting the flame: Menelik Shabazz’s Burning an Illusion, 40 years on (Article)
- No Barriers to Cinema: Young d/Deaf audiences (Article)
- Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films Poll: Old is Gold (Article)
We post our news & opportunities round-up on the final Thursday of every month. Have something you want included? Email Jake at: jake.abatan@independentcinemaoffice.org.uk
Header image: Return to Dust, courtesy of Modern Films. Screening as part of ID Screening Days 2022.