Creative Industries Festival: Diversifying audiences: community cinema

Community cinemas in unexpected spaces, from indigenous villages to building facades and screenings in the peripheries, reach out to new audiences that would otherwise be excluded.

Photo credit: Leonardo Viso

Speakers who make a difference in Mexico, Brazil and the UK will talk about how community cinema in unexpected spaces, from indigenous villages to building facades and screenings in the peripheries, can reach out to and form new audiences that would otherwise be excluded.

Chaired and facilitated by PhD student Sylvia Morgado de Queiroz. 

Panelists include:

- Yuli Rodríguez and Emiliano Escoto: Representing Festival de Cine de Barrio, an initiative that seeks to decentralize the cinematographic offer of Ciudad de México, promoting audiovisual creations from the periphery and local communities. Feciba/

- Takumã Kuikuro: International award winning filmmaker, a member of the Kuikuro people, Ipatse village, Alto Xingú Indigenous Territory in central Brazil. In 2022, he created the first Indigenous Film and Culture Festival, in Brasília, and he is the curator of the Indigenous Film Festival in the UK.

- João Pacca: Artist who created Festival VideoRio, a festival in which short films are projected onto buildings around the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Festival Videorio

- Trish Cashen (Poppadom Pictures) and Geron Swann (Film Oxford): Poppadom Pictures, a curry and film evening at Film Oxford organised and run by local residents
Poppadom Pictures


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