The Big Country Rural Cinema Network is a community cinema scheme which enables you to show blockbuster or archive films in a venue on your doorstep.

Volunteers within the community select their film, book the venue & sell the tickets & Big Country provides the technician & state of the art equipment to run the screening. It is managed by Phoenix Arts in Leicester and currently operates within  Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire.

Choosing your film and advising on how best to choose something for the type of audience you want to attract.

Setting a ticket price

Creating a poster template for your event

A technician will turn up with all the kit, set it up & run the film screening for you. They can also come & visit your venue beforehand to ensure all
will run smoothly.

Book the venue and book your film through head office.

Promote the event. You can use your poster which we will have helped you create.

Sell tickets to the screening.

Arrange to have extra people at the event to help take tickets and help serve any refreshments if available.

The screenings cost you £80 & you split the profit on the ticket sales 50-50 between yourselves & the scheme. The money returned to the scheme helps to maintain the kit & keep the costs down. Any money you make from organising raffles or selling refreshments is yours.

If you already have a projector, screen & speakers in your venue then we can still support you in running a film event.