British Federation of Film Societies

The British Federation of Film Societies (BFFS), which has used the trading name Cinema For All since 2014, is the national organisation for the development and support of the film society and community cinema movement in the United Kingdom.

Cinema For All
Formation1946
Legal statusNon-profit organisation
PurposeAdvice and support for film societies in the UK
Location
  • 15 Paternoster Row, The Workstation, Sheffield
Region served
UK
Membership
UK film societies and community cinemas
President
Derek Malcolm
AffiliationsInternational Federation of Film Societies, British Film Institute
WebsiteCinema For All
Formerly called
British Federation of Film Societies

It offers a wide range of services and resources dedicated to the needs of community cinemas and is based in The Workstation, in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter. The president is Derek Malcolm and the patron is Ken Loach.

It has held the Film Society of the Year Awards annually since 1969. The 2014 Engholm Prize winner for the Film Society of the Year is Dungannon Film Club in Northern Ireland.

The British Federation of Film Societies was founded in 1932; its inaugural meeting was held at Welwyn and attended by Anthony Asquith and John Grierson. The federation was then based in London; early members of the executive included Ellen Wilkinson.[1]

Footnotes
  1. Cordwell, Reg (1989) A Salford Family Chronicle. Radcliffe: Neil Richardson; p. 32
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