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Toolkit: Dismantling Structural Inequality in Your Cinema
Inclusive Cinema's guide to tackling systemic racism offers practical advice for improving the experiences of POC audiences, staff and filmmakers.
BFI FAN EDI Webinar: Accessible Cinema for Audiences with Chronic Illness
In this session recording, Charlie Little presents a case study from Watershed on how to create accessible cinema experiences for audiences with chronic illness.
BFI FAN EDI Webinar: Curating Disability with SQIFF & We Crip Film
Case studies from SQIFF and We Crip Film Festival to help you embed disability-focused programming within your screenings and events.
BFI FAN EDI Webinar: How to build community partnerships
Learn from three UK-wide film exhibitors who developed community partnerships with local disability orgs.
Engaging deaf and Disabled people: A Toolkit for Creative Groups
A toolkit designed to help creative groups spark creativity among their local deaf and disabled community.
BFI FAN: Accessible Cinema Bulletin | Spring 2026
The latest access and inclusion news for UK-wide Film Hub members.
BFI FAN: Accessible Cinema Bulletin | Winter 2025
The latest access and inclusion news for UK-wide Film Hub members.
BFI FAN Webinar: Creating relaxed screenings for neurodiverse audiences
Catch up on the recording of the BFI FAN's EDI webinars, featuring Charlie Little in conversation with Georgia Kumari Bradburn.
BFI FAN: Reducing socio-economic barriers for cinema audiences
A BFI FAN resource created to support exhibitors with identifying and addressing socio-economic barriers for audiences.
BFI FAN: Accessible Cinema Bulletin | Spring 2025
The latest news and resources on film sector disability access and inclusion.
BFI FAN: Accessible Cinema Bulletin | February 2025
The latest Access Bulletin from EDI Champion Charlie Little.
BFI FAN: EDI in Focus – Inclusive Recruitment with Diversity Scotland
The third session in BFI FAN's EDI in Focus series highlights the key things to consider regarding inclusive recruitment and conscious inclusion in your organisation.
BFI FAN: EDI in Focus – Accessible Cinema for Blind Audiences
Charlie Little is joined by BFI's Inclusion Partner Clare Baines to share their experiences and guidance as partially sighted film lovers.
BFI FAN: Accessible Cinema Bulletin – July 2024
Read the latest Accessible Cinema Bulletin from EDI Champion, Charlie Little.
BFI FAN: EDI in Focus – Intersectional Audiences
Charlie Little, Kyla Harris and Linnea Petterson discuss how exhibitors can implement inclusive and accessible best practices for intersectional audiences.
BFI FAN: EDI in Focus – Advocacy for Accessible Screenings
Access Consultant Charlie Little explores how exhibitors can advocate for standardised, accessible screenings and provisions.
BFI FAN: Access Directory
A new directory with guidance, toolkits, and practical actions for planning inclusive film events for Deaf and disabled audiences.
Independent Cinema Office: Developing Deaf Audiences for Film
A guide to help you understand the challenges Deaf people experience in the cinema and what your cinema or film festival can do to make the experience pleasurable, welcoming and well-presented.
Independent Cinema Office: How do I make my cinema inclusive and accessible?
A reference guideline for independent cinemas to improve access in venues for their disabled visitors.
An Equal Experience: Why Descriptive Subtitling Matters
In this blog for the Independent Cinema Office, Matchbox Cine’s Charlotte Little explains the importance of descriptive subtitles in creating a more equal experience for audiences.
Arts Marketing Association: The Accessible Marketing Guide
A comprehensive guide from the Arts Marketing Association on making your marketing activity and communications accessible to the widest number of people.
Access Forum: Dementia-Friendly Screenings
Watch our online session on making your screenings dementia-friendly, with Glasgow Film Theatre and Montrose Playhouse.
BFI Diversity Standards
The BFI Diversity Standards are a contractual requirement for all BFI funding, including fiction and documentary films funded via the BFI’s partners.
Inclusive Cinema
Inclusive Cinema is a UK-wide project developed by the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) designed to support screen exhibitors. Together, we celebrate diversity on screen, in the audience and behind the camera.
Widening Access and Inclusion Online: Marketing & Screenings
Two sessions led by Charlotte Little and Helen Wright that will help you to make your websites, social media and online screening activity accessible to more people
Matchbox Cineclub: How-to Captioning
As part of the Film Hub Scotland Access Forum, Matchbox Cineclub has run ‘how-to’ sessions on how FAN members can make their programmes as accessible as possible.
SQIFF Accessibility Guide
The Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) have produced the Deaf and Disabled Accessibility Guide, intended for use by film exhibitors who want to embed Deaf and Disabled access into their work.
Inclusive Cinema: Dismantling Structural Inequality in Your Cinema
A practical guide for improving the experiences of POC audiences, staff and filmmakers – and other intersections including gender, sexuality, disability, income and class.