Film Camp is Film Hub Midland’s film exhibitor training day taking place during Flatpack Festival in Birmingham on Thursday 14 May 2026 at Midlands Arts Centre.
Film Camp has been bringing the Midlands film community together each year for nearly a decade, collectively exploring new approaches to programming and audience development. Whether you’re a seasoned exhibitor or just starting out, Film Camp is open to all.
Workshops this year will include: Collaborative Cinema: Building Stronger Communities, Show Me the Money: Fundraising for Film Exhibition and Old Film, New Audiences.
Flatpack Festival is back in Birmingham, 9-17 May 2025, celebrating the magic of moving image in all its glory.
Tickets for Film Camp are just £25 and on sale now (lunch & networking drinks included).
Meet the Speakers
Juwairiyyah Wali
Invited to share insights during the Collaborative Cinema: Building Stronger Communities session. Juwairiyyah is a film curator and cultural worker based in Birmingham. She currently works at Flatpack Projects on their programming team and co-founded Radical Exhibition Collective in 2024. In her curatorial practice, Juwairiyyah seeks to serve diasporic audiences through themes of resistance, rebellion and transgression as applied to anti-colonial, feminist and queer modes of interpretation.
Abi Standish
Leading the Collaborative Cinema: Building Stronger Communities session as part of Cinema for All. Abi Standish is the Training and Film Officer at Cinema For All and has worked in the community cinema sector for over 10 years. As well as coaching community cinemas across the UK in setting up and developing their screenings, she works with film distributors to make independent and international titles available to screen to community cinema audiences.
Ellie Ragdale
Ellie is joining Abi in leading the Collaborative Cinema: Building Stronger Communities session as part of Cinema for All. Ellie joined the Cinema For All team in June 2018 after running community cinema Handmade Cinema and immersive screenings with Girl Gang Sheffield and Manchester. She now serves as their Training and Environmental Officer, co-leading the training programmes with Abi and heading up the coordination of Cinema For All’s environmental work, including the creation of the Climate Action Cinema Collective.
Karen Daw
Leading the Show Me the Money: Fundraising for Film Exhibition session. Karen has over 25 years of fundraising experience and, as a result, expertise developed through positions at Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and B:Music. For the past six years, she has been a freelance fundraising and development consultant supporting a range of community groups and charities in Birmingham.
Dr June Giavanni
Dr June Givanni, in collaboration with Cinema Rediscovered's Nathan Hardie, joins us for the Old Film, New Audience's session. Dr June Giavanni is a BAFTA Award-winning, pioneering international film curator who has considerable experience in film and broadcasting developed over 30 years. Regarded as a resource for African and African diaspora cinema. The development of the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive is based on her collections from years of working in the field of cinema. June was involved in bringing Third Eye, London’s first Festival of Third World Cinema, to London. She worked as a film programmer at the Greater London Council’s (GLC) Ethnic Minorities Unit, at a key development stage for Black British Independent cinema, and Black British art and culture generally. Givanni ran the African Caribbean Film Unit and programmed Planet Africa at the Toronto International Film Festival for over four years. She has curated with festivals on five continents.
Nathan Hardie
Joining Dr June Giavanni for the Old Film New Audiences session, Nathan Hardie is a freelance Comms and Outreach Coordinator from Bristol, associated with film festivals Cinema Rediscovered, Slapstick Festival, and Afrika Eye. Working closely with Watershed, he also facilitates a 16-19 Film Club and was We Are Parable's We Are Here Regional Cultural Curator for Bristol.