Current Project: LGBTQIA+ Moving Image Heritage in Merseyside
Michael and Monika from Cinema Nation CIC are delighted to announce a year-long project working with North West Film Archive, Manchester Metropolitan University and Sian A. Williams improving LGBTQIA+ moving image archives, supported by the BFI’s Screen Heritage Fund.
We are currently organising focus groups in each borough of Merseyside to find out from our LGBTQIA+ community what they imagine their film heritage could look like.
22 November – Lovelocks, Liverpool
29 November – Make, Birkenhead
30 November – Street and a Half, St Helens
(Knowsley and Sefton events in January)
To book onto these events or for more information, visit our Linktree
Our community work follows the Respect – Connect – Reflect – Direct process outlined by Tyson Yunkaporta. Our collaborative projects include:
Scalarama: an international initiative to create a collaborative cinema celebration every September, and supporting the BFI release of the new Scala!!! documentary in 2024.
Yore Lens on L8: hosting and advising on accessibility for Akoma Arts’ video film screening project
Community Cinema in Merseyside: with recent collaborations including Liverpool Tool Library, Unity Theatre & Everton Library’s 125th Birthday
We offer consultancy for archives alongside screen heritage programmes for communities, highlighting issues of erasure, collective memory and decolonial approaches, which include:
Home Video Day: encouraging digitalisation of analogue materials from people’s video collections in close partnership with North West Film Archive.
Community Archive Commissions: working with community partners and cultural organisations with clients including Culture Liverpool, Yore Lens on L8 and Abandon Normal Devices.
Tag L8: devising a new digital platform for communities to upload, tag and interact with their own archive material
Our approach to creating best practice is to research into alternative, holistic methodologies, where well-being and the environment are prioritised.
UKRI – Community Research Networks: leading a consortium of partners including Culture Liverpool, Liverpool World Centre, Our House and Walton Youth & Community Project to create a community-lead research network.
Radical Cinema Reading Collective: creating safe online spaces to connect and be in solidarity with others through reading and discussing radical texts
58%: game-changing film programming at Liverpool Small Cinema foregrounding women, trans and non-binary filmmakers as well as cinema workers
Offering our support and expertise to other cinemas and festivals through innovative and bespoke training schemes and consultancy sessions.
Take One Action Film Festival: delivering a 5 year plan for Scotland’s global action cinema project including leadership structures, audience development and fundraising strategies
Come and Meet Another Me: Bradford’s National Science and Media Museum’s community programming scheme. Leading on training and facilitating community discussions
Consultancy and advice services: clients include BFI, Abandon Normal Devices, Metal Liverpool and Storyhouse
Hello, we are Michael and Monika from Cinema Nation CIC, a queer-led community interest company based in Liverpool 8, and today we launch our new project Shield Circles, supporting artists and cultural workers who have Read more
We are based at Toxteth TV,
37-45 Windsor St, Liverpool L8 1XE
Michael Pierce & Monika Rodriguez
cinemanationcic ( at ) gmail.com
Mon - Fri, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm (1 pm - 2 pm is lunch time!)