Gateway Distributors manage licences for a number of individual distributors libraries.
Cinema For All
This is a membership organisation for Film Societies and Community Cinemas. A list of over 800 titles is available.
To access this scheme visit here
Contact info@cinemaforall.org.uk, 0114 2210314
BFI (British Film Institute)
The BFI hires out films on DCP, 35mm, 16mm and DVD/Blu-ray to cinemas, film societies and community venues. Libraries that they licence include:
Artificial Eye
British Film Institute
Soda Pictures
Contact Bookings Unit on bookings.films@bfi.org.uk, 020 7957 8938/5
ICO (Independent Cinema Office)
The ICO is the UK’s national body supporting independent cinemas, film festivals and exhibitors of all forms. As a distributor their special interest is in uncompromising new work, reissues of the key works of world cinema and artists’ films. They offer licences for selected titles, which are constantly being updated here.
Contact bookings@independentcinemaoffice.org.uk, 0207 636 7120
Filmbankmedia
Filmbankmedia represents prominent Hollywood and independent studios and distributors from around the world. With over 13,000 titles available, they offer a wide range of non-theatrical licenses for film screenings and viewings in community cinemas, film societies, hotels, transport and maritime operators, healthcare providers and many more. Among the libraries that they licence are :
• 20th Century Studios
• Arrow Films
• Cirque du Soleil
• DLN Films
• Disney
• Entertainment Film
• eOne Entertainment
• Eros International
• F&ME
• Fox Networks Group including FOX, FOX Life, National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, BabyTV and 24Kitchen
• Fremantle Media
• Gravitas Ventures
• High Fliers
• Icon Film
• Insight TV
• Kaleidoscope Film Distribution
• Left Films
• Lightbulb Film Distribution
• Lionsgate
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer inc. United Artists
• Miracle Communications
• Miramax Films
• Noah Media Group
• Paramount Pictures
• Parkland Entertainment
• Pathe
• Peccadillo Pictures
• Pinewood Pictures (formerly Cinema NX)
• Renown Productions
• Screenbound International Pictures
• Shed Media (WB TV)
• Sony Pictures
• StudioCanal
• STX Entertainment
• The Works
• Thunderbird Releasing
• Trafalgar Releasing
• Trinity Films
• Universal Pictures (inc. DreamWorks Animation)
• Vertigo Releasing
• Verve Pictures
• Vision Films Inc.
• Warner Bros
• World in a Day Films
Online booking is available or contact: info@filmbank.co.uk, 020 7984 5950
The Motion Picture Licencing Corporation (MPLC)
MPLC offers two types of licence, an Umbrella Licence and a Single Title Licence. They cover films from various libraries that include:
Buena Vista Pictures
Dimension Films
Hollywood Pictures
MGM
Pixar
Touchstone
Turner
Walt Disney Pictures
Contact ukinfo@mplc.com, 01323 649 647
Park Circus
Park Circus is an international sales and distribution company providing distributors, cinemas and film festivals with information, ideas, rights and prints for screenings of classic films. See the libraries that they licence here.
Contact bookings@parkcircus.com, or 0141 332 2175