Relaxed Cinema Mentoring

Free Relaxed Cinema Mentoring Sessions for Film Hub North members.

Are you a Film Hub North member looking to enhance accessibility and confidently run and/or develop work on Relaxed Screenings for neurodivergent audiences? 

We are offering free mentoring sessions to help you achieve these goals and develop venue-wide measures to welcome disabled and neurodivergent audiences to your cinema.

Through regular sessions, tailored to your schedule, capacity and needs, Beacon Films will provide guidance on:

1.  An informal accessibility review: Assessing your cinema's current strengths and barriers and providing basic training on the social model of disability

2. Develop an action plan for the mentoring: Setting goals for the year. Establishing a low maintenance feedback process for audiences and staff.

3. Support the development of accessible marketing: Effectively promoting venue access and accessible screening formats holistically.

Finding a way to communicate any barriers that cannot be easily addressed. Installing simple low-maintenance opportunities for audience feedback.

4. Building in-venue access support: Developing a warm welcome for audiences including walkthrough videos, visual guides, staff training and familiarisation visits.

5. Building Relaxed Cinema Events. Developing events based on industry standards and toolkits. Building on community relationships to grow audience engagement.

6. Programming Relaxed Screenings. Choosing film titles and engaging neurodivergent and disabled film programmers in your work.

For more information or to arrange a chat about the mentoring, please contact Midnight Memphis: midnight@beaconfilms.org.uk. Let's work together to create an inclusive and welcoming cinema experience for all!