Opening
The screening room
A cinema inside a working studio in East London. The room matters less than what gets watched in it, and what is said afterwards.
The room, briefly
Red curtains, tiered seats, and a corridor that leads to the stages.
It is inside the studio base at 3 Mills, available to Screen Sisters under the studio agreement. You walk past the kit room to get to your seat.
Done: a studio cinema session ran there alongside the first production simulation. Opening: everything below.
What the room is for
Three things.
Community screenings. A congregation, a class, a youth group or a women's group comes in, watches something together and stays for the conversation. Prayer and quiet space is arranged, and the food is something everyone in the room can eat.
Work made by the women in the programmes, shown to an audience. A first film shot on a phone plays on the same screen, through the same sound, as everything else. Showing it to strangers is the last stage of the training.
The hour afterwards. The film ends and the room says what it thinks. Nobody is asked to answer for a whole community.
The screening room with an audience in it, lights down, screen lit.
To be shot at the next screening.
Bringing a group in
Start with an email.
Tell us who is coming
The group, and what you want the evening to do.
We agree the film
Yours, ours, or one we find. Tell us what would be wrong to show your room.
We set the room up
Prayer and quiet space, food everyone can eat, and a plain answer about access.
Someone holds the conversation
The film, then the part that is actually the point.