Useful links

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• National organizations
• International organizations
• Regional screen agencies
• Distributors
• National and Regional film theatres
• Other organizations
• Interesting film websites
• Film education
• Film archives
• General information
• Technical information
• Insurance
• Funding sources
• Cinema access
• Black and Asian cinema

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National organizations

• UK Film Council
• British Film Institute
• Skillset, the sector skills council for the audio-visual industries - funds training for film, TV and other media industries
• Film Distributors' Association
• British Universities Film and Video Council. Founded in 1948, BUFVC is a representative body which promotes the production, study and use of film and related media in higher and further education and research
• British Screen Advisory Council
• Independent Film Parliament - "an opportunity for those sustaining our most innovative, challenging and independently-minded cinema to develop and share ideas on structures and policy in an open, public forum"
• BAFTA - the British Academy for Film and Television Arts
• Independent Cinema Office: funded by the UK Film Council to provide programming advice services to all film societies in the UK - e.g. print availability, advice on hire terms, archive material, format and rights information, accessing publicity materials.

International organizations

• International Federation of Film Societies
• Europa cinemas - film news from all over Europe
• Cineuropa - website covering the European film and TV industry (great newsletter)
• The International Federation of Film Archives

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Regional screen agencies

• EM Media (East Midlands)
• Screen East (Eastern England)
• Film London
• North West Vision (North-west England)
• Northern Film and Media (North-east England)
• Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission
• Scottish Screen
• South West Screen (South-west England)
• Screen South (Southern England)
• Ffilm (Wales - agency under construction)
• Screen West Midlands (West Midlands)
• Screen Yorkshire

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Distributors

• Artificial Eye
• British Film Institute
• Buena Vista International
• Columbia TriStar
• Disney
• Dogwoof Pictures
• Filmbank
• Filmfour
• Metrodome
• Miramax
• Momentum
• New Realm
• Optimum Releasing
• Pathé
• Soda Pictures
• Twentieth Century Fox
• United International Pictures
• Warner Bros
• Bitesize Cinema

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National and regional film theatres

• National Film Theatre (NFT)
• Nottingham Broadway
• Cardiff Chapter Arts Centre
• Edinburgh Film House
• Everyman Cinema
• Glasgow Film Theatre
• Manchester Cornerhouse
• Sheffield Showroom
• Stoke Film Theatre
• Tyneside Cinema
• Warwick Arts Centre
• Bristol Watershed Arts Centre

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Other organizations

• Centre for Education & Finance Management (licensing Body - issues PVSL to educational institutions)
• Charity Commission for England and Wales
• National Archives - this archive of films produced under the post-war Labour government is part of an online exhibition from the UK's National Archives.
• Shooting People - Shooting People aims to solve problems by providing a forum for people to exchange info, make contacts, get advice, and, ultimately, stimulate independent film-making in the UK
• Virtual Film Club - linked with BFFS Scotland
• British Board of Film Classification

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Interesting film websites

• Sight and Sound - BFI's seminal film journal
• Vertigo - essential film mag with an online edition
• Empire online
• Time Out - 'over 20,000 film reviews online'
• Screen online - 'definitive guide to British film and TV history, with analysis, information and multimedia.'
• Guardian film
• Images - an online journal of film and popular culture
• Senses of cinema - an online journal 'devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema'
• Firecracker - an online magazine devoted to Asian cinema
• Screen - an academic journal with some interesting articles
• Shadows on the Wall - featuring Rich Cline's excellent reviews
• Filmcritic.com - useful for reviews for programme note inclusion
• Rottentomatoes.com's critics page - useful for reviews for programme note inclusion
• Kinocite - archive of film reviews
• Open directory section on film theory and criticism
• The letterbox and widescreen advocacy page - info about aspect ratios
• Kinoeye - new perspectives on European film
• Filmaffinity - a US site, huge amount of information, repays digging
• Cannes Film Festival
• The Mad Cornish Projectionist's site. Essential.
• Filmfestivals.com - useful portal site
• Britmovie - the home of UK films
• Moderntimes - classic film pages
• Film history index of web resources on a vast array of topics
• All UK cinema listings
• A pro-filmsoc journo manages to get a long and interesting article on community cinema into Woman's World
• Suffolk Digital Cinema Network
• Animate - news, events and articles about contemporary animation work in the UK
• Lovefilm - 'Rent unlimited DVDs in the UK for only 9.99 per month. All postage paid. No late fees. No due dates. No strings. No fuss. Free trial period.'
• Moviemail - 'Buy DVDs at Moviemail, offering arthouse, cult, silent and classic dvds online.'

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Film education

• Film Education - a site 'intended primarily for teachers in the UK and Ireland'
• Filmstreet - fun film website for kids
• First light - website for young film-makers
• Media Ed - 'for teachers, students and anyone else who's interested in media and moving image education'

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Museums and film archives

• The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford
• Moving history - a guide to the twelve UK film and television archives
• BFI National Film and Television Archive
• North-west film archive
• East Anglian film archive
• The South-west film and television archive
• Screen archive South-east
• The Wessex film and sound archive
• The Lincolnshire film archive
• The Yorkshire film archive
• The Northern Region film and television archive
• The Irish film archive
• The Cult film archive
• The film and video archive at the Imperial War Museum
• The film and video archive at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
• The Bill Douglas Centre at the University of Exeter
• Public information films 1964-79 film index
• UK Film Council box office statistics archive
• A short history of film archiving

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General information

• Launching films - the Film Distibutor's Association guide to how films reach the UK market - contains valuable insights for film societies
• BFI film and TV database
• BFI Associate Tutor scheme
• Box office statistics
• Boxofficereport - all the latest on US takings plus much more
• UK Film Council statistics
• BFI touring programmes
• Film Education's website
• Guardian censorship report
• British Council directory of UK film festivals
• Downloadable pdf guide on how to set up a film festival
• BFI library research sevices
• Internet movie database
• National Film and Television Archive
• Classic and vintage film posters
• Visionbank - Filmbank's access point for publicity materials
• Carlton screen advertising
• Google images - source of stills
• Imagenet - source of stills
• Picselect - source of stills
• Allmoviephoto - source of stills

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Technical information

• IVOJO Multimedia - supplier of audio-visual equipment
• Edric Audio-Visual Ltd - supplier of audio-visual equipment
• BKSTS - The Moving Image Society

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Insurance

• WRS insurance - for a great deal on film society insurance

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Funding sources and advice

• UK Film Council distribution and exhibition funding
• Arts Council
• The Princes Trust
• Awards for All
• Big Lottery
• Heritage lottery fund
• Information sheet on grants in the arts
• Useful links page for info on Arts Council funding applications
• UK sponsorship - the 'premier online database for UK sponsorship opportunities'
• UK fundraising - fundraising information and resources for fundraisers
• Access-funds - grants information for the British charitable and non-profits sector
• Directory of Social Change books on fundraising
• Source for an excellent book on fundraising

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Cinema access

• UK Film Council Cinema Access Programme
• Cinema access technologies for people with sensory impairments (UK Film Council)
• Disability Arts
• Disability Discrimination Act
• Disability equality in education
• Arts Council for England disability information pack
• DTS cinema subtitling system
• White Sticks, Wheels and Crutches (bfi catalogue of films dealing with disability)
• Your Local Cinema (subtitled cinema and audio-described cinema)

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Black and Asian cinema

• Bite the Mango film festival, Bradford
• Black Filmmaker Foundation, USA
• Black World
• Decibel
• Tongues on Fire, festival celebrating Asian women in cinema
• UK Film Council, diversity policy
• Bangladesh Film Festival (London)

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