What we offer

We offer free advice and ongoing support to all groups, bringing exhibitors together through events, screenings, workshops and networking opportunities, publishing advice, case studies and educational materials to help groups at all stages of operation, providing a wide range of member benefits, including access to the Cinema For All Booking Scheme, insurance discounts and special offers from our partners, advocating for community cinemas at a national level on policy, planning and licensing.

Why is Community Cinema important?

The volunteers who put on film screenings in their communities are a special bunch of committed film fans. Cinema For All believes that their work is hugely important, has a significant impact on the film industry, on local regeneration and on people’s lives.

  • Community cinemas and film societies bring film to all areas of the country – 31% of community screens operate in rural areas, compared to only 3% of commercial venues.
  • The support of home-grown film and talent – 25% of films shown by community groups are UK productions.
  • They engage with the people in their communities – a film society experience brings you together as a community to share the magic of cinema. Community cinemas bring back that habit of cinema-going, that was once thought lost.
  • They do it because they love it – we believe that a community screening can be an inspiring and unique way to experience cinema. The passion and enthusiasm of the volunteer organisers comes through in many thoughtful and highly creative ways.

Latest Additions to the Booking Scheme

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    Typist Artist Pirate King

    Available to screen from 10/11/23. TYPIST ARTIST PIRATE KING puts forgotten artist Audrey Amiss on the map. Inspired by her extensive archive of diaries, letters and art, the film weaves real events into an imagined journey as Audrey goes on a road trip with her psychiatric nurse. From acclaimed British filmmaker, Carol Morley, this dark and funny exploration of the growing friendship between two women as they hit the road in an electric car looking […]

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    Is There Anybody Out There?

    Available to screen from 01/01/24. Groundbreaking documentary, Is There Anybody Out There? follows filmmaker Ella Glendining’s global search for someone with a body that looks like hers, and explores what it takes to love yourself fiercely as a disabled person in an ableist world.

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    Shabu

    Fourteen-year-old aspiring rapper Shabu is not having a good time. The Dutch-Surinamese teen stole and crashed his grandmother’s car, leaving her fuming and him having to work all summer to pay her back. Tired of odd jobs, Shabu decides to stage a block party to showcase his talents as a rapper and, most importantly, win his grandma over. The irresistibly charming and resourceful Shabu will steal your heart in Shamira Raphaëla’s hilarious, upbeat, better-than-fiction documentary.

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