Screen Machine
We operate the Screen Machine mobile cinema. For more information, click here.
Advice, information & signposting
We can often answer enquiries about cinema development, cinema and film club operation and programming, film festivals, and other related areas. Please check our useful stuff page.
If you require more than factual information, please contact us to discuss your project and where possible we will provide advice and guidance to assist with your development or project. We may refer you to specialist third parties if this is required.
Cinema exhibitors, film clubs, film festivals and other organisations often benefit from sharing information among their peers. Film Hub Scotland offer a full resource page with access to research, case studies, reports and guidance, to take a look, click here. Regional Screen Scotland has set up a ‘closed’ Facebook group for everyone involved in showing films in Scotland. This is where you can ask all sorts of questions of your peers who like you are right in the thick of it and may have found solutions that could be helpful to you rather than you spending hours researching the same thing. Please contact us to join this Facebook. You can view the Screen Community Facebook here.
Advocacy, networking & making connections
Great screen experiences bring people together. Whether it be the latest blockbuster, an independent or ‘arthouse’ film, ‘event cinema’, a documentary, archive footage, or films made in and about a local community, seeing anything on a big screen with people you know can be a powerful experience.
Regional Screen Scotland aims to make the case for providing as many local communities as possible with the opportunity to share great screen experiences, whether that be through a film club using a DVD projector, or a full scale cinema with several auditoria.
RSS teamed up with the Glasgow-based Social Value Lab in 2016 to undertake research into the social values and impacts of local cinema and screen provision to help us make the case for providing more communities with appropriate equipment and support.
We use the Screen Machine as a powerful tool for developing a community’s interest in local screen provision and for building potential audiences for such provision.
Developing Audiences for Film
RSS works closely with Film Hub Scotland to help to develop audiences for film across Scotland
As part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, Film Hub Scotland is one of eight Hubs set up across the UK to extend film choice, increase and broaden film audiences, and enhance opportunities for audiences to engage with and learn about film. Since January 2018 FHS has been hosted by Glasgow Film.
FHS has set up a network of like-minded film exhibitors – from film societies to multiplexes – to work together to better serve Scotland’s diverse population. FHS provide Hub members with a range of funding opportunities, screening programmes, training, networking events and audience research, helping Scotland’s exhibitors become truly inclusive, reaching as many new and existing audiences as possible.