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A couple of weeks ago I headed to the 70th Annual Festival de Cannes for the first time. Luckily for me, I was joined by seasoned Cannes veterans - ICO Director Catharine and Senior Programmer Jonny Courtney.
This year, Jo took her second trip to the French Riviera for the Festival de Cannes 2017, excited and expectant about entering in to the exhausting fray of back-to-back screenings and seeing films with little to no context.
With the switch to digital cinema now nearly five years in the past in the UK, the true value of the way film was shown for the first hundred years is thrown into relief.
Club des Femmes is a queer feminist collective that has now been showing films, running events and changing the shape of programming and culture for ten years, having been founded in 2007 by programmer Selina Robertson and filmmaker Sarah Wood.
As ever, LOTS going on with ICO this month. Can't stop, won't stop!
Were holding a Young Audiences Screening Day in May, full of films to entice young audiences into your venue and sessions on how to develop your offer for children, teens and young people. For a taster of the event, check out this post by Roseanna Dias.
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.
Over the weekend of 18/19 March, the Barbican in London will be presenting Chronic Youth 2017, a season of six screenings produced by the Barbican Young Programmers group. Here, two of its twelve members give us their take on the process of programming and marketing.
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.
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