Starting a Free Film Festival – where to begin?
If you’ve found out about Free Film Festivals, seen what’s on, and are interested in starting a Free Film Festival in your area, where’s a…
The Unlikely Rise of Free FIlm Festivals
Ever wanted to start your own film festival? All you need is an empty space and a little community spirit, says Sam Thompson in this…
Films celebrating women – some suggestions
Catford Free Film Festival were being asked to screen a film during a “Festival of Women”, to celebrate women’s achievements. A few of the people…
How to put on a film festival for free
Why spend months planning a film festival and then give it away for free? Read this blog post from the Independent Cinema Office blog, written…
The Crooked Well, Camberwell
And why they like being a venue for the Camberwell Free Film Festival. We caught up with Jen, the manager of The Crooked Well (above), just…
2016 Free Film Festivals
Our 2016 programme of festivals is now underway, starting with the SOAS Community Free Film Festival, the first student-led Free Film Festival, which took place…
Brockwell Lido Cinema 2015
See what happened when the Herne Hill Free Film Festival turned Brockwell Lido into a cinema for an evening, to screen Grand Budapest Hotel? People…
Soldering iron saves “The Ladykillers”
Fahzan is one of our volunteer projectionists and spent several hours last Sunday taking apart one of our two mixing desks. “I could solder before…
Salvation Army College becomes a cinema
I’ve been to five events in the 2015 Camberwell Free Film Festival – watching terrific films in a pub, football club, community hall, church crypt,…
What does a Free Film Festival look like?
They’re all different, of course, but this film from 2013 about the New Cross & Deptford Free Film Festival captures really well what they made happen….
Finding local venues for free film events
Look around any city, town or village and you’ll find places that could become great community cinema venues for a night. Since 2010, Free Film…