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Septembers News Round Up brings with it plenty of thrills...
Another timely round-up of all the things we are currently doing at the Independent Cinema Office.
Over the last two years, Agnès Salson and Mikael Arnal travelled across Europe looking for innovative practices in independent cinema exhibition. Starting in France, they eventually crossed twenty countries, meeting more than 200 cinemas.
After 8 days jam-packed with films both old and new, panels, presentations, discussions and workshops, we wrapped up our flagship training course, Cultural Cinema Exhibition, earlier this month.
Last week we were joined by Wendy Mitchell, Contributing Editor at Screen International, for a live Twitter Q&A on how you can ensure your film festival is as press-friendly as possible to really boost its reputation. In case you missed it, we've gathered together all her great insights from the session here.
It's a busy time in the ICO office, with new training programmes, distribution titles and research keeping us on our toes. Here's a taste of what we've got going on.
Last week we had the pleasure of working with independent cultural consultant Sarah Boiling, on our Data-driven Marketing course up in Leeds. After four days of talking engagement and analytics, we've some up some of the key learnings with ten tips to get you started using data to drive your marketing strategy.
From the first theatres that dared to show pictures at the end of the 19th century to the current networks of competing chains and small independents, cinemas have changed drastically in the course of their lifetime.
We can probably agree there's not been much to cheer about in 2016, but politics, natural and man-made disasters aside, the ICO team have found reasons for hope and celebration in films old and new.
Its been a busy month for the ICO, we've been debating the future of independent cinema at our first Screen Forum, amongst other things...
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