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Overview

Here we go through the the process of picking films, how to track down the screening rights, the different kinds of screening rights, formats, checking copyright © and a selection of best practices to help make the process as painless as possible. This first step helps to set everything else in motion. Once you have selected your film (or films) for screening this filters down into every subsequant step. After all, you don't want to book a venue, build an audience, sell tickets and get an expert speaker for a night of Akira Kurosawa films, if it turns out you can't get the rights sorted.

Picking a Film

Every journey starts with a first step and the first on the way to your screening is picking what film(s) you want to screen. If this is your first time screening a film you might consider screening a film that is a personal favourite. The advantage of this is that your enthusiasm for the film will help you define what type of event it is going to be and what possibilities exist to enhance the event beyond pressing play.

A good starting point is to whittle your potential choices down to two or three possibilities. It is possible that you will not be able to acquire the rights to screen your first choice so having some second choices means you can try for one of those films without getting disheartened. If it turns out all your first choices are available to screen then you've already done some of the legwork for any future screenings you might want to put on.

What Are Rights?

The rights to screen a film in public are usually held by a rights-holder (a company or individual) who will allow screenings of it in return for a fee. Different factors affect the type of licence being issued, but broadly speaking these fall into two distinct categories.

Theatrical

Theatrical rights apply to a venue that is geared towards screening film as it's primary means of generating revenue. This also means that certain film formats are more likely to be subject to a theatrical rights licence. For instance it is unlikely that your local pub or community centre has a 35mm projector and the environment to assemble reels of film.

Non Theatrical

Non theatrical rights cover venues that are less geared towards solely screening film. This would cover more multipurpose venues like pubs, clubs and community focused venues. The equipment available at these venues is also likely to be less specialised, such as a DVD/Blu-Ray player.

Formats

Physical

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