The Participatory Film Society

The Participatory Film Society

Imagine this scenario: You go to a community cinema, buy a ticket at the door, sit down in near silence with a few other souls….

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Using Facebook for film societies

What’s the best time to post to Facebook? and how can community cinemas use it to best advantage? Rather than ponder whether to use Facebook…

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Devising the programme for a community cinema

How do we choose what films to put on? This is a question that we are often asked and, since we’ve also had good feedback…

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Films in Forest Row Library

There is a very important place in Forest Row where you can satisfy your film interests other than coming to the village hall on a…

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Suggest a film for 2013-14

Please let us have your ideas for films for next season. We’re keen to screen films that could attract a hundred people, and those that…

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Using email to promote your community cinema

I suspect we all use email to get information out to our audiences. It is still one of the best means of direct contact. Though…

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Using Twitter for community cinemas and film societies

Using Twitter for community cinemas and film societies

At the BFFS National Conference, Bryony Forde and I ran a session on social media, which was lots of fun. There was a lively Twitter…

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A great Forest Row Festival weekend

A great Forest Row Festival weekend

With a full house for Buster Keaton, and perfect weather all weekend, this year’s Forest Row Festival was one of the best. Hot on the…

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Creating the BFFS conference Twitter archive

This is an unusually geeky post for this blog, but several people asked how I’d created the combined page of all the tweets for the…

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An award, and a fantastic community cinema conference

An award, and a fantastic community cinema conference

During an incredibly enlivening and inspiring weekend which included the national community cinema conference and Film Society of the Year awards, Forest Row Film Society…

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