Grants For Film London Pilot Movies Announced

Film London has revealed the pilot screening initiatives that are to receive support.
The recipients of the Community Pilot Fund (CPF) have been announced, encouraging growth in community-based film screening activity across the capital.
Following a call for applications in mid-September, projects in Hackney, Lambeth, Haringey and Brent have been selected.
Receiving £3,000 each, the successful initiatives will shed light onto less explored genres, stimulate debate, foster cross-generational connections and bring film and the cinema experience closer to new and under-represented audiences.
In Dalston and Kennington, biannual publication Little Joe, specialised in alternative and cult film, will present a series of screenings charting the history of queer cinema and TV, incorporating special introductions and social events.
Also presenting less accessible cinema, the Council of Asian People in Haringey, in association with the Screen Film Society in Wood Green, will programme screenings and discussions of films from the South of Asia aimed at intergenerational audiences.
Marking the centenary of the 1912 textile workers strike, 'The Bread and Roses Centennial Film Festival' is the brainchild of creative space studioSTRIKE in Lambeth. Targeting the borough's multicultural communities, film will reflect on working lives from a contemporary and historical perspective.
Finally, after identifying a gap in its local provision through Film London's Cinema Data Pilot project, social enterprise The Lexi Cinema in Brent has devised a series of screenings to reach audiences in the Harlesden area.
The Community Pilot Fund was launched in September 2011 specifically to develop new grassroots film exhibition, education and archive activity.
The innovative fund awarded fixed grants of £3,000 per project and presented a simplified application process to encourage a higher number of submissions and attract a broader range of organisations. In addition, the assessment process halved the turnaround time from deadline to decision from eight to four weeks.
The CPF is a Lottery fund part of Film London's strategy to support film cultural activity in the capital in the coming year.
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