Opening
Screening
The finished piece is put in front of an audience, and then the room talks. A film is not the end of the work.
Where it screens
Cast, crew and contributors first. Then the people the film came from.
Screenings run at 3 Mills, where Screen Sisters is based, and at Pinewood when a room there is open to us. Contributors see the film before an audience does, every time, and nobody finds out what was made of them by sitting in the dark with strangers.
Where a piece has a festival life, that is planned with the maker rather than left to luck.
Opening. Dates go out as each screening is arranged.
Then the part that matters
The conversation after the film is the reason for making it this way.
- Community dialogue. A conversation with the people whose subject it is, chaired so more than the loudest voice gets heard.
- Audience feedback, recorded and given back to the maker rather than collected and filed.
- What the film is for. Where it goes next, who still needs to see it, and what it was made to change.
Terms
Terms are agreed with each selected project in writing before work starts.
Where the Lab runs
The Story-to-Screen Lab is a joint programme with Futures in Film CIC, and it is co-run across 3 Mills Studios and Pinewood Studios.
Sessions run online as well, and in other spaces we can reach, so that taking part does not depend on living near one building. Writers, filmmakers and community organisations work together across all of them.