In today's Newsreel we have the latest on brand new Booking Scheme titles, offers from MPLC, bursary opportunities from the Festival of Community Cinema and more! Don't miss out on the latest news and offers from the world of community cinema straight to your inbox 📨: buff.ly/3BgtDsz

As part of our celebrations of 100 years of community cinema, we're spotlighting the amazing work being done by groups across the UK! We recently spoke to the team from Cinema Social Club in Liverpool about their work and the difference volunteer-led cinema can make in communities: bit.ly/3L3ZWiR

A great piece in The Guardian about the magic of community cinema and our centenary celebrations, with words from Harrogate Film Society, King’s Lynn Community Cinema Club, Queer Boots Film Club, Cromarty and Resolis Film Society, and Cinema For All CEO Jaq Chell:

A mysterious new arrival disturbs the delicate balance of a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Cate Blanchett), in a captivating story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival. THE NEW BOY is available for community cinemas to screen now: bit.ly/3JmsdRl

Cinema For All is in the running for a £5000 donation and your vote could make the difference! This funding would help us continue our work supporting communities across the UK. 🗳️ Voting closes Sunday 📌 Be sure to use our trading name: British Federation of Film Societies 🔗 Vote now: bit.ly/46UiElI

Pour yourself a coffee and cut yourself a slice of pie because Cinema For All members can now screen Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks the return through our friends at MPLC ☕ Screen this and other exciting titles as part of our new member benefit:

Couldn’t make it to Sheffield for the 100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition I curated with the wonderful @cinemaforall.bsky.social a few weeks ago? Well today is your lucky day - a special guided tour just for you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyPj...

"Cinema takes you by the hand for your whole life..." Rhianna Dhillon’s conversation with filmmaker and community cinema champion Mark Cousins, recorded at the 100 Years Gala, is now available to watch in full on our YouTube channel. Watch and subscribe: bit.ly/4omxh7h

Yvonne Nguyen's dreams of musical theatre stardom clash with her mum's traditional expectations. When she moves back home, they bond in their Vietnamese restaurant over steaming bowls and simmering tensions. IN THE NGUYEN KITCHEN is available for community cinemas to screen now: bit.ly/4q6cGp9

Voted the greatest film of the last century by UK community cinemas and film societies, Giuseppe Tornatore's love letter to moviegoing, Cinema Paradiso, is available to screen now with bursary support as part of the Festival of Community Cinema. Find out how you can take part: bit.ly/3I5ma2w

🎬 Work in the screen sector? Our next BFI Sustainable Screen peer-learning session is fast approaching. This month we focus on environmentally sustainable indoor events with National Saturday Club & @cinemaforall.bsky.social. 📅 Tue 21 Oct, 2–3pm Register your free place tinyurl.com/mr24kj6m

We're celebrating a century of community cinema by giving away a bundle of 100 years goodies. Win a Girls on Tops x Cinema For All collab, 100 Years t-shirt, enamel badges + tote bag. To enter, make sure your following us and reshare this post telling us your favourite film of the last century 🎞

Earlier this year, as part of our 100 Years of Community Cinema celebrations, we invited UK community cinemas and film societies to vote in a poll of the 100 greatest films of the last hundred years. A huge number of groups voted and we’re excited to share this once in a century list: bit.ly/3IIn4Tu

The Festival of Community Cinema has officially begun 🥳 A showcase of the inspirational and innovative programming of volunteer-led exhibitors over the past 100 years is coming to a community cinema near you! With bursaries still available, it's not too late to take part: bit.ly/3ZYIMrL

Rebels with Projectors is now available to screen at your community cinema 🎞 Celebrate a century of volunteer-led film with our new short documentary exploring the past, present and future of this incredible movement. Book now: bit.ly/471XFNJ

Our once in a century poll of the 100 greatest films of all time, as voted for by the community cinema movement, is available now in @filmstories.bsky.social 🎞 Don't miss out on a copy: bit.ly/46G7BuW

Share your experiences of community cinema 🎞️✨ The Guardian would like to hear from people who are involved in a UK volunteer-run film society, whether it's about your most memorable screenings or how you got started: bit.ly/46CjwtW

We loved celebrating 100 years of community cinema at @cinemaforall.bsky.social’s gala! Huge congratulations to our award-winning members — Chorley Empire Community Cinema (Legacy Community Building) and Leigh Film Factory’s Elizabeth Costello (Outstanding Contribution by an Individual). 👏✨

We're still on cloud nine from Saturday! Thank you to everyone who joined us in Sheffield to celebrate a century of community cinema at the 100 Years Gala. What an inspiring night - honouring the incredible history of the movement and looking to what's next. Here's to a hundred more 🥂

Today’s the day- the headline event of our year long celebration of a century of community cinema 🥳 Beginning with an open day at our exhibition at Bloc Projects, followed by the 100 Years Gala this evening! We can’t wait to celebrate with everyone 🎞

The 100 Years of Community Cinema Exhibition is now open 🎉 Come down to Bloc Projects in Sheffield and take a journey through the last century of volunteer-led film!

From 16th – 20th September at Bloc Projects our 100 Years of Community Cinema Exhibition will feature a curated selection of archive materials and stories from the last century of volunteer-led film 🎞

A once in a century poll... But what film did the community cinema movement vote as the greatest of all time? Find out at the 100 Years Gala on 20th September and in @filmstories.bsky.social 🎞

Michael Powell’s groundbreaking Peeping Tom illustrates film societies’ ongoing relationship with censorship, which goes back to the first film society’s tussling with the BBFC. Available to screen as part of the Festival of Community Cinema. Learn more and access bursary support: bit.ly/3ZYIMrL

Book contract secured! If any of the phenomenally generous reviewers are on here, THANK YOU!!! ‘A Century of Community Cinema: The First 100 Years of Non-commercial Film Exhibition in Britain’ will be coming to your nearest library in a couple of years. Woohoo!

We're thrilled to announce that filmmaker Mark Cousins will be joining us in-conversation at the 100 Years Gala on 20th September! He is an artist whose career spans festivals, epic award-winning documentaries, and championing cinema of all shapes and sizes. See the full programme: bit.ly/46i52A8

Set over a tense 48 hours, SOULEYMANE'S STORY follows a Guinean asylum seeker who races through the streets of Paris delivering food as he awaits his asylum interview which will decide whether or not he will be granted residency. Available for community cinemas to screen from 1/2/26: bit.ly/4fVkHIV

We asked our team for their highlights from the Festival of Community Cinema 🎞️✨ Take a look at the full programme of titles: bit.ly/3ZYIMrL

A member of iconic bands Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and The Dirty Three, multi-instrumentalist and composer Warren Ellis has found a new passion project: a wildlife sanctuary in the forests of Sumatra. ELLIS PARK is available to screen from 1/12/25: bit.ly/4n0xVXa

We’ll be hosting the 100 Years of Community Cinema Exhibition at Bloc Projects in Sheffield from 16th–20th September with a special open day ahead of the 100 Years Gala on 20th! The exhibition will feature a curated selection of archive materials the last 100 years of volunteer-led film exhibition 🎞️

The BIFA Cinema of the Year longlist is up and we're proud to see that up against some of the biggest and most well known commercial and independent cinemas in the country, 9 on the list are community cinemas 🥳 Vote to support volunteer-led cinema: www.bifa.film/coty-vote/

We're excited to announce film critic and broadcaster Rhianna Dhillon will be hosting the 100 Years Gala on September 20th 🎉 See what else we have planned for our biggest ever celebration of community cinema: bit.ly/4lFMChl

Bouquets and ABBA mixtapes at the ready, you're cordially invited to screen '90s classic MURIEL'S WEDDING as part of the Festival of Community Cinema! See the full programme and find out how to access bursaries to support your festival screenings 🎞: bit.ly/3ZYIMrL

A cinematic western that is both epic and intimate, set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1860s frontier America, THE DEAD DON'T HURT is a powerful story of love and survival, conflict and revenge. Available for community cinemas to screen now: bit.ly/3HyPw9y

Applications for Launch close on Friday! Don't miss you chance to receive bursary and coaching support to make your dream cinema a reality ✨🎟: bit.ly/42e5Su4

We're so excited to share the shortlist for the 55th annual Film Society of the Year Awards! We had a lot of applications this year and we'd like to thank everyone who applied and wish a huge congratulations to all those shortlisted. We can’t wait to celebrate in September 🎉

Want to start screening films but don't have access to the right kit? Our affordable equipment hire scheme makes it easy to bring the big screen to your community 📽️ Find out more and book your screening today: buff.ly/3ZL7j2l

Ever thought of starting your own community cinema? Apply for Launch today and receive a £300 bursary and support from Cinema For All to help get your screenings off the ground! Find out more and apply: bit.ly/42e5Su4

🎤 Guest speakers 🏆 Awards 🎞 Premieres All this and more at the 100 Years Gala on 20th September! Get your pass now 🎟: bit.ly/4lrMOBY

Paul & Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual relationship that blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. An unconventional romantic comedy, PAUL & PAULETTE TAKE A BATH is available for community cinemas to screen from 01/11/2025: bit.ly/4lSF4sI

Did you know Satyajit Ray was the founder of one the first film societies in India? The Big City, one of Ray's most acclaimed works, is available to screen as part of the Festival of Community Cinema. See the full programme and access bursaries to support your festival screenings: bit.ly/3ZYIMrL

We'll be joined by broadcaster and critic Danny Leigh to unveil the results of our poll of the 100 greatest films of all time - as voted for by the community cinema movement - at the 100 Years Gala on 20/09/25! But which film do you think is number one? 🤐 Tickets are on sale now: bit.ly/4lrMOBY

Looking for a project to share your passion for film? Launch is here to help! Start your own community cinema and receive support from our team team & a £300 bursary to help make your dream cinema reality. Applications close 15/08/25: bit.ly/4o1iLm2

From Q&As to trips to local allotments, it's been great to see screenings taking place as part of New Leaf Film Festival – our climate action film festival run collaboratively between our Climate Action Cinema Collective, taking place throughout June to tie in with World Environment Day 💚🎞️

We asked our team for their highlights from the Festival of Community Cinema 🎞️✨ Take at a look at the full programme of titles: bit.ly/3ZYIMrL

Community group needing access to equipment for a film screening? @cinemaforall.bsky.social to find equipment near you mycommunitycinema.org.uk/equipment/

A sneak peak at some of the things we have planned at 100 Years Gala 👀 Get your tickets now: bit.ly/4lrMOBY

Two school friends in a dead-end town in the East of England join forces with a green-fingered grandad to sell a shed of weed that the old man has accidentally grown, forming an unlikely partnership of the forgetful and the forgotten. CHICKEN TOWN is available to screen from 25/8/25: bit.ly/4kMacZo

💔Don't throw away your proposal for BFI FAN Too Much: Melodrama on Film Season! There's still time to polish up your applications and benefit from a UK-wide press and marketing campaign 📆Due Monday, 21 July Apply Now: bit.ly/toomuchmelo

The UK's biggest film magazine returns! 168 pages, and it's crammed with interviews, features, opinions and facts about movies and movie-making. Get yours here: filmstories.co.uk/news/film-st...