The Guide to Screening Films offers practical information, guidance, and further links aimed to help you plan, deliver, and offer your audiences a fun, entertaining, but also achievable cinema experience for all. It is organised into three sections:
1. Preparing For Your Screening:
Who is your audience? | Costs involved | Funding available | Building your team
2. Making It Happen:
Venue checks and licences | Equipment advice | Finding & licensing films | Marketing | On the day
3. Keeping Going To Your Next Screening:
Listening to feedback | Challenges you might come across | Useful further resources
The Guide has been created in partnership by Regional Screen Scotland, Cinema for All, Film Hub Scotland, and Screen Scotland – the four leading national organisations supporting all sizes of cinemas in communities. We aim to keep the Guide up-to-date and it covers as much as we can in general terms, but please contact us if you have any more detailed queries.
Click here to download the Guide – Microsoft Word
Current version: v5 February 2025, now updated with links to AV/Tech providers on p15 and accessibility checked by Charlie Little of Matchbox Cine with alt-text added.