More than a cinema

Film exhibition is changing. As cinemas we’re still working to a transactional model in which audiences enter the venue, buy a ticket and sit down to watch a film. However, we’re also talent incubators supporting the next generation of filmmakers and creatives, social hubs that create positive and safe spaces for local communities, and venues for myriad other uses; in other words, more than a cinema! 

In this session we’ll hear from Elizabeth Costello (Development Director, Leigh Film Society), who works to screen LGBT films in prisons, and Nerve Centre, multi-arts space in Derry- Londonderry - all working in unique ways to expand the conventional cinema space. Chaired by opening session speaker Rabab Ghazoul (Founder & Director of Gentle/Radical).