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Streaming on the Cinema of Ideas from 9 - 16 September, Life in the Woods is an online event exploring our relationship with nature and imagining a sustainable future on Earth. One of the films in the programme is The Moon and the Sledgehammer: a fascinating documentary from 1971 which captures the strange existence of the Pages, a family living a simple life in the Sussex woodlands without running water, electricity or gas. In this blog, the ICO’s Sami Abdul-Razzak speaks with the film's director Philip Trevelyan about his experience with the Page family and what we can learn from their approach to life in these times of environmental crisis.
Cine Brazil is a film screening project that aims to bring the diversity and creativity of Brazilian independent cinema to London, while donating part of the box office to grassroots organisations working at the frontline of Brazilian resistance. By doing this, they hope to reconstruct the narrative of Brazilian culture abroad, raise funds for important causes in their home country, and create a space to bring people together. In this blog, Cine Brazil's co-founder Louise Carpenedo discusses their experience since their first screening in 2019.
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Reflecting on his experience at this year's Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, ICO's Projects and Business Manager Duncan Carson shares three films from the festival which made a mark and explores how this annual celebration of cinema history impacts film culture at large.
Working with a network of nearly 200 hospitals across six countries, Film in Hospital is a groundbreaking European project that helps children who are physically unable to attend cinema screenings gain access to exclusive festival films, while involving them in a wide range of creative activities. In this blog, Davide Abbatescianni (Ireland correspondent for Cineuropa) speaks to three representatives from Film in Hospital to find out more about their story and future plans.
Patrice Robinson, Cinema Assistant at the Barbican, writes about first watching Maangamizi: The Ancient One, a 2001 Tanzanian film that will screen on the 31st July at the Barbican, which caused her to reflect on her own identity as a member of the African diaspora and the obstacles to visibility and availability that African films continue to face.
Governance is the backbone of how your organisation functions; how it survives today and thrives in the future. Following a series of seminars on governance led by the NCVO, the ICO's Projects and Business Manager Duncan Carson reflects on the hallmarks of good governance and offers some advice to those who want to begin making changes in their organisations.
FEDS International offers FEDS alumni the chance to secure a short-term placement with an international exhibition partner, providing an opportunity to develop their skills and understanding of the wider exhibition sector, forge connections with international colleagues and build on their past FEDS experience. Having just returned from Los Angeles where they took part in Outfest Fusion’s inaugural Programming Fellowship, Rico Johnson-Sinclair (Race Equality Lead at BFI and Director & Film Programmer at CineQ) details their experience and how it's changed the way they'll approach their own exhibition work in the UK moving forwards.
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