Latest New Audiences Initiative films available to programmers this autumn
Small, Slow But Steady and Love According to Dalva are two exceptional films available to programmers for their upcoming seasons. Now in its second year, the New Audiences Initiative is access>CINEMA’s project aimed at providing extra support to one feature per quarter. This is to help network cinemas, venues and film clubs reach potential new audiences. Two exceptional titles have recently […]
Free French film screenings announced to mark Bastille Day 2023
French film fans in Ireland will be able to catch a series of free screenings, in Dublin or online, in July to mark Bastille Day 2023. To mark the French National Day, a series of special film screenings will take place in association with Dublin City libraries. In-person screenings include The Crusade from actor-director Louis Garrel and […]
La Syndicaliste: access CINEMA releasing French thriller in Irish cinemas this June
Isabelle Huppert stars as Irish woman Maureen Kearney, a trade union leader who faced a campaign of intimidation after becoming a whistleblower in the French nuclear industry. access>CINEMA will release the gripping corporate thriller La Syndicaliste in Irish cinemas from June 30th. Based on a non-fiction book by journalist Caroline Michel-Aguirre, the French-language film tells the extraordinary real-life […]
New film festival in Berlin to showcase Irish feature films and shorts
A brand-new film festival in Berlin will showcase Irish screen creativity, including An Irish Goodbye and An Cailín Ciúin. Irish Film Berlin is a new film festival showcasing Irish screen creativity across three days in May in Berlin, from Friday 26th May to Sunday 28th May 2023. Curated by the team behind the OFFline Film Festival in Birr, the event will […]
The May Film Tour to celebrate the Bealtaine Festival returns for 2023!
The May Film Tour is back for 2023 and will take place at locations nationally throughout the month of May to celebrate the annual Bealtaine Festival. The May Film Tour is organised jointly by access>CINEMA and the Irish Film Institute to co-incide with the annual Bealtaine Festival, and features free screenings of films specially selected with older audiences in mind. […]
How film clubs can help integrate new Ukrainian arrivals into Irish society
An Táin Arts Centre in Dundalk has welcomed large numbers of Ukrainians in Ireland to several of their film club screenings Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, large numbers of Ukrainian families have started arriving in Ireland. While this has led to major social & cultural programmes on a national scale, more localised efforts have also […]
‘Whist A Thary’ – Traveller and Roma Film Festival taking place in Galway this March
A four-day curated festival of authentic and celebratory representations of Traveller and Roma communities, taking place in Galway from 21st to 24th March 2023. Mainstream cinema often portrays Traveller and Roma communities through narrow stereotypes of violence, criminality or mysticism, while less widely seen cultural cinema has forged a small but significant tradition of more […]
DIFF Tour : The Ordinaries screening at access>CINEMA sites across Ireland
In association with the Dublin International Film Festival, access>CINEMA is delighted to bring the film The Ordinaries to a number of venues outside of Dublin as part of this annual Festival Film Tour. Touring a Film Festival highlight to regional venues continues for another year, giving audiences beyond Dublin an opportunity to have the festival experience and view an […]
North Circular now available to screen at access CINEMA sites
North Circular, written and Directed by Luke McManus is A Reel Art Film Funded by the Arts Council/An Comhairle Ealaíon North Circular is a documentary musical that journeys along Dublin’s North Circular Road, a street that defines the working-class north inner city as it curves from the Phoenix Park in the West to Dublin Bay in […]
New Audiences Initiative title – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
access>CINEMA is happy to announce that the acclaimed and award-winning documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is the next film being supported under the New Audiences Initiative (NAI). https://youtu.be/wiuKv8l-MgI Laura Poitras’ Golden Lion winning documentary chronicles the life and work of artist Nan Goldin. Since the 1970s, Goldin has been an acclaimed photographer of NYC’s LGBT […]
