A Celebration of Cinema in all its forms, throughout September, across the UK.

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After the success of 2011’s Scala Forever, the season of films celebrating the Scala Cinema and rep cinema in London, last year we followed it with Scala Beyond, which saw over 120 exhibitor partners across the UK take part in the celebration of all forms of rep cinema from film clubs and societies to pop-ups and rep cinemas, and even into schools with the collaboration with FILMCLUB.

 

This year we’re planning the follow-up Scalarama, a national celebration of rep and community cinema across the UK in September.  We want to encourage, support, celebrate and champion all types of cinema across the country and make Scalarama a regular and long-running annual film season to help increase the number of rep and community screenings and help new audiences discover a whole history of film and alternative cinemas.  If the season can inspire a fraction of the number of people that the original Scala did, then we’ll have achieved one of our main objectives.

 

More than a festival, Scalarama is an inclusive film season, a movement for movie lovers and a celebration of cinema in all its forms.

 

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We invite you to join a community of enthusiasts from across the UK; a range of film organisations, programmers, curators, collectives, academics, journalists and film fans – all will come together for one month to share their belief that watching a film as part of an audience is something important, valuable and worth championing. Scalarama is not just about film, it’s about the experience, and the people and the passion behind the projector.

Scalarama is open to all, whether you submit an event as part of our Open Programme, select to show one of the specially chosen titles from our Core Programme or take part in national Home Cinema Day on Sunday 29th September (see below for more details). Now in our third edition and with hundreds of events expected to take place across the country, we are on the verge of making a real impact on how people think and talk about cinema. With your support, we can make this year’s season the widest and most inclusive film event yet.