CINEMAS

Creative Europe supports European cinema exhibition sector through co-financing of the pan-European network of 1,134 cinemas totalling 2,761 screens, in 685 cities of 34 countries.

UK films play particularly well in the network and in 2019, five of the top 10 films that generated the most admissions in the network were from the UK. They were; The Favourite, Downton Abbey, Yesterday, Rocketman and Sorry We Missed You.

29 UK cinemas were members of the Europa Cinemas network, spread across 16 towns and cities across the UK, with over half outside of London. Jointly they received €91,515. However, this is a 30% decrease in membership from the previous year and a 58% decrease in the level of funding.

YEAR 2019 UK MEMBERS 29 UK Cinemas GRANT AMOUNT € 91,515

A major part of the network’s strength is in it’s training and exchange opportunities, which aim to inspire, incentivise and enable more network members and the wider sector to innovate, exchange knowledge and develop their practices collaboratively in the areas of programming, communication, audience development, business development and data management.

Recent examples of Europa Cinemas exchanges have included Josefine Kraft from the Broadway Filmtheatre in Trier, Germany learning from the team at the Queen’s Film Theatre in Belfast and Adam Pugh and Tess Denman-Cleaver (pictured) from the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle developing ideas for programming artists film at U-Jazdowski Kino in the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw.