Independent Cinema Office

Today is your last chance to register for Accessibility Across the Board, a new short course from the BFI Film Audience Network aimed at helping organisations develop a more accessible and inclusive culture and environment for disabled audiences and staff. This course will give you the tools to develop your own Disability Action Plan - a practical roadmap to embed disability inclusion into your organisation. Hear from industry professionals and explore insightful case studies, giving you the opportunity to learn from lived experiences and make your organisation more accessible to disabled audiences and staff. 📆 12 + 14 November (online), 11 February (at Midlands Arts Centre) 👥 This course is open to all BFI FAN members across the UK Find out more and sign up now: bit.ly/3Y2wrlI Image description: A light pink promotional graphic with the header Accessibility Across the Board: Embed disability inclusion into your organisation. Further text says ‘Online: 12, 14 November, Birmingham: 11 February BFI FAN SHORT COURSE’.

Refresh your outlook and plan for the future with new open webinars from the BFI Film Audience Network and the Independent Cinema Office. A taster of the full Revisiting Your Cinema Business Model course, each webinar will give attendees practical recommendations to help organisations thrive in the long term. Topics include: Financial reporting Using data to grow your audiences Strategic fundraising Taking place from 10:00 to 12:00 on: 5 + 19 November 3 December Registration is open to BFI FAN members across the UK. Tickets cost £10 or book all three for £25. Read more at tinyurl.com/RYCBM-OS

New training is available from the BFI Film Audience Network to help embed disability inclusion into your organisation. The new, hybrid short course, Accessibility Across the Board, explores practical steps for creating organisational change so exhibitors can develop a more accessible and inclusive culture and environment for disabled audiences and staff. The course is open to BFI FAN members across the UK and will be taking place over Zoom 12 and 14 November, and in-person at Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham on 11 February. Find out more and apply at: bit.ly/3Y2wrlI Applications close 5 November. Please get in touch to discuss any queries or access requirements. Image descriptions: A light pink promotional graphic with the header ‘Accessibility Across the Board: Embed disability inclusion into your organisation'. Further text says ‘Online: 12, 14 November, Birmingham: 11 February BFI FAN SHORT COURSE’.

The Independent Cinema Office is seeking new members for our Board of Trustees: providing direction, evaluation and support to our leadership team at four Board meetings per year. Joining our Board offers the opportunity to hone existing skills, develop new ones and help shape a national cultural agency. WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR: 🟠People who love cinema as much as we do 🟠People with skills in finance, HR, fundraising and organisational development 🟠Young Trustees 🟠People who reflect more widely the communities we serve in audiences across the UK HOW TO APPLY: 🟢Read the full Board Recruitment Pack via our website 🟢Submit a cover letter/short video about why you’d like to join the Board 🟢Please get in touch to discuss any queries or access adjustments Find out further details via our website, sign up for an online information session to hear more about it from current trustees and staff, and apply by 18 December! https://lnkd.in/gpPp9D24

Our Programming Team are out and about at #LFF, including this bonanza of UK titles backed by the BFI and #NationalLottery30. Check our ICO Blog pages in the coming weeks to find out which highlights caught their eye.

The twelfth edition of our flagship film programming training course, Cultural Cinema Exhibition, will take place this January - and applications are open now! 📍12-17 January 2025, London Since the first edition in 2003, course alumni have achieved top jobs at the BFI, Picturehouse, Curzon, Watershed, Sheffield DocFest, Altitude, the Barbican and film festivals around the world. 🔴 How the film industry works 🔵 How to market a film 🟡 The technical aspects of film 🟢 How to build audiences for archive film, artists' moving image, international cinema and more 🟣 How cinema programming really works: negotiating, securing rights, balancing different types of film, scheduling and understanding release windows The deadline to apply is Friday 29 November. See full details on our website: https://lnkd.in/eYHXJn-h #CCE2025 #CinemaTraining #CinemaProgramming #ICOTraining

Join the next online open session as part of the REACH: Strategic Audience Development programme! Züleyha Azman, Marketing Director of KINO Rotterdam, will join us to share how they have successfully grown audiences and built a community through their distinctive approach to social media marketing. 2pm-4pm, 4 September. Open to BFI FAN members across the UK. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eCKKg6Aq #BFIFAN #FANTraining #CinemaSocialMedia

Final programme confirmed for #BFIFANCON 🚨 Joining the line-up are: 🔵 𝐖𝐞’𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮: 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞-𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 This workshop will look at how we evaluate engagement, and how we can open up current models to be co-created with people and communities, bringing together the voices that often get missed on a tick-box form. With Linnea Pettersson 🟢 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 This session will consider the recent exploration of subtitle glasses, the inclusive practice of reliable descriptive subtitled screenings and future plans to roll out preview screenings with descriptive subs and BSL training for cinema staff. With Charlie Little and Paramount Pictures 🟣 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐬: 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 Research tells us that family groups are increasing their cultural activities overall.  We’ll look at that data in this session and hear from exhibitors about how they’ve successfully engaged children and family audiences and developed a sustainable practice. w/ The Audience Agency, Exeter Phoenix, Cinemagic Film Festival 🔴 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐬 Bringing together the worlds of marketing science and placemaking, will look at how organisations of all sizes can go beyond film-by-film marketing, and utilise these concepts to build and deploy a meaningful brand story. Led by Bernadine Brewer 🟡 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 Using principles from relaxed and accessible screenings, we will facilitate an accessible networking session open to all delegates interested or engaged in access work. Facilitated by Midnight Memphis 📅 11-13 September, Belfast 🎟️ View the full programme & get your pass: https://lnkd.in/ewjpyZWc #BFIFANCON

Last month, we sent our Marketing Officer Sami Abdul-Razzak to Europa Cinemas' Audience Development & Innovation Lab in Bologna. In our latest blog, Sami highlights a few ideas that have stuck with him since returning home. Including: 🔴 Creative social media w/ Kino Rotterdam 🔵 Working with local artists w/ Wolf Kino (Berlin) 🟢 Handing over control to young people w/ Kino Valli (Pula) 🟡 Refreshing the film canon w/ Kino Aero (Prague) 🟠 6am film screenings w/ Stadtkino Wien (Vienna) Read it here: https://lnkd.in/ecTv-8R4 #europacinemas #innovationlab #ilcinemaritrovato

Screening Days is coming to Nottingham! Tickets are now on sale for Autumn Screening Days, which takes place 15-18 November at Broadway Cinema, with an online film programme screening from 18-24 November. Get your pass: https://lnkd.in/eWv5ZK7M #ScreeningDays #BroadwayCinema #AutumnScreeningDays #IndependentCinemaOffice