ICO Autumn Screening Days 2022

The final schedule won’t be available until closer to date, as we confirm films until quite close to the event.

However, registration usually starts at 8.30am each morning, with first films at 9am or shortly afterwards. The final films end around 5.30 to 6pm each day. 24 films are due to screen over Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 November, with selected repeats from the programme screened on Monday 14 November. Four films play in each screen each day, with mid-morning, lunch and mid-afternoon breaks.

Films will screen in the Pictureville, Cubby Broccoli and IMAX cinemas at the National Science & Media Museum.

Films screening online will be available on Eventive from midnight (start) of Tuesday 15 to midnight (end) of Friday 18 November. You will be able to watch them within this window at times that suit you.

Shortly before the event, we’ll send you a PDF event pack with all details including film descriptions, instructions on how to join at National Science & Media Museum and/or online, a full schedule, and a participant list.

If you are attending in-person at NS&MM and would like a colour hard copy of the printed pack, you can purchase one in our online ticketing to collect on your arrival (we no longer colour print packs for everyone to avoid unnecessary waste). 

Yes, you can switch your pass type from in-person/online to online only, or vice versa while capacity allows, until the final registration deadline on Friday 21 October.

To do so, email us at: info@independentcinemaoffice.org.uk.

There are 24 films in the programme. All films will screen at National Science & Media Museum and we aim to make at least 12 titles from the programme available to watch online too. We will confirm if films will be available online as well as in-venue as they are announced. However, please note that we reserve the right to pull titles from online screenings if we have any issues on the delivery of materials closer to date.

For this event, we are working with Eventive. You can view films on Eventive on a laptop, tablet (e.g. iPad), phone, Chromecast and Airplay from your device, and via HDMI connector to your laptop. However, please note that you can’t currently watch on devices with a Linux or Chrome based operating system (e.g., Chromebooks). In general, it’s a good idea to test your set up before streaming the films – you can do that on Eventive’s compatibility page. We offer a support email service throughout the event.

We aim to provide SDH (Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing) on as many films as possible online and in-person.

For films shown online, if distributors can’t supply SDH, we create them where we receive film materials in enough time to do so.

For films shown in-person, we are unfortunately limited by whether or not distributors can supply SDH on DCP at the time of their screening.

We will confirm all details of which films will play with SDH in-person and online as soon as we can before the event.

For details of venue accessibility at National Science & Media Museum, see their accessibility information page.

If you have any other queries not answered here, email us at: info@independentcinemaoffice.org.uk

We’ll keep an eye on COVID-19 developments as we move into the autumn and will update you if we make any changes to the event as a result.

If you have COVID-19 symptoms before the event or feel unwell in any way, please do not attend in-person. A full refund or change to an online pass will be available before the event if you test positive for COVID-19 or if changing circumstances mean you no longer feel safe attending in-person.

Read about COVID-19 safety at National Science & Media Museum in their Health & Safety web section.

National Science & Media Museum is located in Bradford city centre overlooking City Park. It’s a five-minute walk from Bradford Interchange and a 15-minute walk from Bradford Forster Square station. The route is clearly signposted from bus and train stations.

For more detailed information on travel and parking, see NS&MM’s Visit page and for more information about Bradford and what else there is to do in the city and nearby, see their Visit Bradford page.

Tea and coffee are provided free during morning registration, and you’ll be able to purchase them in breaks.

You can pre-purchase lunches in our online ticketing in advance, giving you a cheaper deal and enabling you to collect your lunch quickly at National Science & Media Museum.

You can purchase other refreshments from NS&MM’s café and Pictureville Bar.

We plan to hold a drinks reception after the final films of the day on Saturday 12 November.

We work closely with distributors to select independent, world and art house cinema that will be released in the following quarter. We focus on titles that are unlikely to have a vast marketing budget so need the keen curatorial eye and advance notice that a viewing at Screening Days can provide for your programme. We also occasionally include higher profile titles, particularly in the lead-up to awards season, so delegates can assess their suitability for programming.

Our goal is to provide you with the opportunity to see the widest possible range of high quality films to help you broaden and diversify the programmes in your venues.

Selected films may be contextualised with introductions and discussions on how they might best be programmed to maximise their potential for audience development.

Films will be announced on this page as they are confirmed. Full film descriptions and booking details will be circulated to registered delegates before the event in our PDF delegate pack.

Good question! We run Screening Days for a few key reasons, best summarised as: ‘To help UK cinemas better serve all their possible audiences’. We focus the events on screenings and discussion because:

• We want cinemas across the UK to be able to make informed decisions about the films they programme, so audiences can see the best titles from around the world. That’s hard if you haven’t actually been able to watch the films and can’t afford to rely on expensive festival trips or distributor marketing materials.
• We think independent cinemas are best when their programming stands out. Screening Days aims to support ambition in cinema programming .
• We want to have useful conversations about what it’ll take to build a stronger independent cinema sector. Gathering people in the sector together helps us identify common problems and find shared solutions.
• We want to support independent distributors by helping their films find an audience in independent cinemas.

What we hope to achieve:

• Cinemas more regularly choosing films in our programme of independent British and world cinema titles and expanding the types of films they show.
• Cinemas attracting a wider range of people to those films.
• Attendees gaining a wider professional network and feeling part of a community.
• A wider group of people feeling that they can participate in film exhibition.
• Independent distributors feeling they’re able to play their films more widely from having been included in the programme.

You’ll be able to discuss films with other attendees during the event. However, due to our agreements with distributors, it’s important not to discuss the films you see at the event in online spaces (e.g. social media, blogs), even if your comments are positive and even if the film has already screened elsewhere. If you’d like to talk about the event in general on social media, though, please do! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook with the event hashtag #ScreeningDays.

We take piracy very seriously. Please do not record, copy, share or stream films from our online platform, which are provided only for film exhibition professionals that meet the entry criteria. We have advanced security measures in place including forensic watermarking that will allow us to prevent and track piracy. If you are found to be in breach of these terms, we will take any and all legal measures available.