Open Cinema

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OPEN CINEMA enables any community to have a cinema or make a film. Between 2009 and 2020, we coordinated an international network of community cinemas, a range of participatory and advocacy filmmaking programmes, and create pathways for excluded people into education and employment.


“You need a bit of laughter and comedy in your life. People get down in the dumps and this cheers you up. It’s a good meeting point…some people come here because they have nowhere else to go.”

– John (OC Member at St. Patrick’s)

ABOUT OPEN CINEMA

Open Cinema enables any community have a cinema or make a film, and builds pathways to education and employment. Between 2009 and 2020, we launched film clubs in challenged communities, and operated a social franchise across Europe. The venues received hundreds of experts from the film industry, from universities and companies in a dynamic range of fields. The filmmaking programmes produced almost a hundred participatory and advocacy films.

Welcome to the historical foundation website. You can still follow us via the links below, or get in touch on the Contact page, to find out how Open Cinema helps achieve the goals of communities and advances the lives of their participants.