Communities are held together by local culture, a term most certainly
not limited to the so-called ‘high arts’ such as opera but
which embraces a whole lifestyle spectrum from art, music and dance to
ethnic character influences, to individual retailers, restaurants, brasseries
and to creative business of all descriptions.
In that broad context, the stirling efforts of the Lewisham Film Initiative,
a joint venture established in 2003 between the Creative Lewisham Agency
and Lewisham Council, deserves much applause.
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The Initiative describes itself as a multi-faceted, grass-roots project
working to produce, promote and programme a wide range of films throughout
the borough.
Since its inception, LFI has supported over 400 screenings, provided vital
financial support for more filmmaking collectives than any other London
borough, programmed and financed new film clubs, enabled 3,000 school children
to go to the cinema for free, marketed cinema in Lewisham across a variety
of media platforms and participated in several high-profile partnerships
with national bodies such as Channel 4’s Britdoc, Film Education
and the Community Channel.
Continuing efforts that can only serve to help raise the area’s
growing reputation as an artistic and cultural ‘hub’.
A showreel can be viewed on their website
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