Northern Film & Media has funded, supported and delivered a wide range of film culture initiatives covering filmmaking, festivals, exhibition and archive.
The agency has invested in several independent cinemas such as Tyneside Cinema, ARC Stockton and Gala Durham, helping these flagship North East venues to deliver an exciting mix of screenings, events and participatory programmes.
Creative England is the the new BFI delegated body for the distribution of Lottery funded film activity, including film culture.
Northern Film & Media hopes to be able to support film culture activity in the future. In the meantime, Creative England's Film Culture Fund is now open.
The Fund will aim to ensure audiences have access to a wide and diverse range of film content, to deepen and enrich audiences’ experience through education opportunities, and to integrate the unique resources of regional screen heritage into wider film provision.
Funding will be aimed at organisations such as cinemas, film archives, film festivals and the non-theatrical exhibition sector (mobile cinema and film societies), for project activity including:
- audience development within the film exhibition sector
- film education activities which are linked to and support film exhibition infrastructure (e.g. cinemas, film festivals, film societies and other platforms)
- the acquisition, preservation and conservation of and access to regional screen heritage.
More information is available in the Film Culture guidelines, available here