Ivie Uzebu is a writer specialising in the intersection between visual media and cultural criticism, driven by curiosity and fuelled by all things cinema, literary, and pop culture. Ivie attended Young Audiences Screening Days 2025 at HOME, Manchester to reports and reflect on the event on behalf of Young Film Network South East. As a […] The post We Borrow the Cinema from our Young: Thoughts on the ICO’s Young Audiences Screening Days 2025 appeared first on Independent Cinema Office.| Independent Cinema Office
Welcome back to your monthly round-up from the ICO, featuring the latest opportunities for your cinema, festival or film society and industry highlights from the UK and beyond. ICO News The ICO 2024-2025 Annual Report was released earlier this month. Read our reflections on the ICO’s work over the past year, as well as our […] The post News & Opportunities Round-Up: July 2025 appeared first on Independent Cinema Office.| Independent Cinema Office
Find the latest opportunities for your cinema, festival or film society, plus industry highlights from the UK and beyond.| Independent Cinema Office
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The ICO team highlights some of the titles from this year’s Berlinale that we’re most excited to see reach UK cinemas over the coming year.| Independent Cinema Office
Find the latest opportunities for your cinema, festival or film society, plus industry highlights from the UK and beyond.| Independent Cinema Office
In this blog, Orla Smith and Kimia Ipakchi, the curators behind Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend, share the unusual and impactful ways they created space for discourse during a recent tour with filmmaker Caveh Zahedi. By placing audience commentary on equal footing with Zahedi’s work, attendees were empowered to interrogate controversial elements of the films, share […] The post The Screening About the Screening: The value of interactive screenings of controversial work appeared first on ...| Independent Cinema Office
The Independent Cinema Office is delighted to welcome three new members to our Board of Trustees: Dr Sita Thomas (a director, intimacy coordinator and academic), Anthony Lee (an arts marketing and communications specialist) and Richard McDonald (a chartered accountant). With expertise in finance, direction, communications, accessibility advocacy and more, these new members will work with […]| Independent Cinema Office
Welcome back to your monthly round-up from the ICO, featuring the latest opportunities for your cinema, festival, or film society and industry highlights from the UK and beyond. ICO News The results of our recent survey on capital investment for film exhibition have been published, revealing that almost a third of UK cinemas do not […] The post News & Opportunities Round-Up: April 2025 appeared first on Independent Cinema Office.| Independent Cinema Office
In this blog, freelance screen heritage facilitator Louise Conway reports on her time and takeaways from the FIAF Programming Winter School, a two-day course focused on programming film heritage.| Independent Cinema Office
ICO director Catharine Des Forges responds to the recent report from the House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport Committee. In 2024, I and many other colleagues from the film industry gave evidence to the House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s Inquiry on British Film and High-End Television, the first such inquiry since […] The post The Independent Cinema Office welcomes the report on British Film and High-End Television appeared first on Independent Cinema Office.| Independent Cinema Office