Exhibition and Education
Educating, informing and developing film audiences benefits our society and our industry. Creating a hunger and passion for screen content enriches lives and creates the audiences and practitioners of the future. Understanding and enjoying film can bring societies together through better cultural understanding and media literacy is vital for young people to understand and navigate their way through today's world. Screen Yorkshire supports both one off participatory education projects and annual film festivals for children, for example, Yorkshire is home to two of the nations premiere children's festivals, Showcomotion in Sheffield and the Leeds Young People's Film Festival. For further information about funding for the exhibition and education sector, go to the funding section.
Cinema
Screen Yorkshire not only funds film education projects but invests heavily in the region's independent cinema infrastructure to ensure all communities have access to a wide range of diverse films. The Showroom in Sheffield, National Media Museum in Bradford and Pocklington Arts Centre are just a few of the independent cinemas in the county which are exhibiting film from around the world of all genres. View a list of cinemas in our region in the links section.
Film Festival Calendar 2008
Our region hosts a number of leading festivals in their fields drawing in experts and enthusiasts from across the UK to celebrate, enjoy, discuss, and develop everything from animation and world cinema to documentary and silent film. Sheffield Doc/Fest, Bite the Mango, Leeds International Film Festival and Bradford Animation Festival are just a few of the festivals Screen Yorkshire funds and supports.
Yorkshire Film Archive
Throughout education and exhibition Screen Yorkshire works closely with the Yorkshire Film Archive to ensure its 100 years of Yorkshire film is accessed, and enjoyed across all communities. Screen Yorkshire is also working with the archive to commercially exploit this resource to secure additional revenue streams.
Evolution 2008: Leeds, 23 - 24 May
Lumen's annual programme of film, sound, and visual art returns for a seventh year of exceptional performances, installations, presentations, and screenings.
Film Festival Calendar 2008
Our region hosts a number of leading festivals in their fields drawing in experts and enthusiasts from across the UK to celebrate, enjoy, discuss, and develop everything from animation and world cinema to documentary and silent film. Sheffield Doc/Fest, Bite the Mango, Leeds International Film Festival and Bradford Animation Festival are just a few of the festivals Screen Yorkshire funds and supports.
Create your own Community Cinema - Free Networking Event: 15 May
In a project funded by Yorkshire Forward, BFFS is working with Screen Yorkshire and the Bradford City of Film strategy to encourage the development of community cinema for and by minority ethnic groups. BFFS is holding a FREE networking event at the National Media Museum in Bradford on the afternoon of Saturday 17 May: Create your own Community Cinema.
Yorkshire Film Culture
"Equally damaging to any attempts to put independent film-making on the map is the notion that anything that happens in London is national but anything that happens in the regions is "provincial". This attitude, combined with the lack of an integrated national network of production, distribution and exhibition, has hampered the construction of, at the very least, a genuinely plural national film culture."
Sheila Whitaker "Declarations of Independence" British Cinema Now (1985) BFI Publishing
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2007Best Ever!!
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2007 attracted over 1200 industry delegates from as far away as Japan and Australia. The five day Festival supported by Screen Yorkshire which screened over five days, was the most successful event in its fourteen-year history.
‘The international reputation of the Festival has grown immensely over the last 12 months and the increase in delegates confirms this. The opening night film Joy Division went down a storm, we had two simultaneous screenings just to cope with the crowd. Sheffield and the Yorkshire region have grown to recognize what a great event they have on their doorstep. Our hard work over the last 18 months to grow the Cross Platform business opportunities for Yorkshire is paying off,' says Heather Croall, festival director.
