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Open Project Proposals Outdoor Screenings Programming Group Touring Networks & Film FestivalsSince we began managing Film Hub South East in 2018, and after establishing our new strategy and schemes within the priorities of BFI FAN and BFI2022, we have awarded funding to a number of venues, networks, festivals and projects across the region.
Click here to view our interactive map showing the geographical spread of projects and organisations supported to date or browse projects supported per scheme below.
Open Project Proposals
Open Project Proposals is our broadest scheme, open to proposals for projects delivering against one or more of the FAN and BFI2022 priorities. We often award support to activities including (but not limited to) film screenings, audience development, film marketing costs and screen heritage work.
Projects supported to date
Runaway Media
£700 for: Culture in Conflict
Eyes Wide Open Cinema
£4,000 for: Queer Horizons
The Mill Arts Centre Trust
£2,500 for: The Mill Film Club
Independent Cinema Milton Keynes (ICMK)
£10,000 for: pilot Vagabond Film Festival
Open Colour
£1,500 for: Open Colour project and audience development
Haslemere Hall
£1,350 for: Indie £5 at 5pm
Balik Arts
£1,000 for: Taste of Anatolia – Film from Turkey (Cambridge)
Norwich Film Festival
£3,350 for: Norwich Film Festival
CINECITY
£1,500 for: Brighton & Hove FHSE Activity Report
Women Over Fifty Film Festival
£2,000 for: Women Over Fifty Film Festival 2018
Thurrock Council
£2,000 for: for TIC Film Festival
Fisheye Film Festival
£1,896 for: Fisheye Independent Film Programme
Outdoor Screenings
Our Outdoor Screenings scheme is designed to support Film Hub South East members in holding exciting, inspiring outdoor screening events across the region. We are especially keen for screenings of British and independent world cinema titles and heritage and archive films to be shown in these screenings.
Projects supported to date
Sawbridgeworth Memorial Hall
£1,750 for their outdoor event
Folkestone Fringe
£3,150 for: Harbour Screen
Programming Group
The Programming Group brings a committed group of cinemas together to grow audiences for cultural cinema. It’s designed to help selected venues develop local audiences for a broader range of films than previously shown. To deliver this activity, Film Hub South East subsidises the cinemas’ costs on selected film titles and supplies expert help and support around the screenings of these films.
Members to date
- Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
- Welwyn Garden City Cinema
- The Theatre, Chipping Norton
- Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead
- Chelmsford City Theatres
- Gulbenkian, Canterbury
- The Capitol, Horsham
- Kino-Teatr, Hastings
- Broadway Cinema & Theatre, Letchworth
Touring Networks & Film Festivals
In 2018, our Touring Networks and Film Festivals scheme continued to support the networks and film festival organisations previously supported through the BFI Film Festival Fund; while working towards a strategy for longer-term festival development and sustainability in the region.
Projects supported to date
The White Bus
£7,000 for: Southend-on-Sea Film Festival 2018
Chichester Cinema at New Park
£8,000 for: 27th Chichester International Film Festival
Creative Arts East
£20,000 for: Screen Extra
CINECITY
£25,000 for: 16th CINECITY Brighton Film Festival
Cambridge Film Festival
£22,500 for: Cambridge Film Festival 2018