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Scalarama 2017 // It’s happening again

Wharf Chambers Ground Floor, 23 - 25 Wharf Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Hi everyone! This September, Scalarama will return to Leeds, which means that anyone, anywhere can be a cinema. There are no restrictions to who can take part and there's no cost to being involved. It's a great opportunity to put on that film screening you've been thinking about, but didn't know how! We organise the […]

I want to be a cinema – Friday night social and screening!

Headingley HEART Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley,, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Scalarama is an annual festival of independent cinema that takes place for the whole month of September. People from across the city come together to put all kinds of films on in venues of all shapes and sizes. Would you like to know more? Come along to one of our meetings and get involved! This […]

Informal Scalarama Leeds catch-up!

The Reliance 76-78 North Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

This will be a drop in session for people who want to keep in touch, have a drink and a chat, maybe to update the rest of the group on their plans. We have no agenda or talks this time, but Leeds co-ordinators Laura and Alice will be there for a couple of hours between […]

Jobriath A.D + live music // Scalarama Leeds 2017 programme launch

Left Bank Leeds Cardigan Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Jobriath A.D. // Scalarama Leeds programme launch The film Jobriath A.D (2012) is Kieran Turner's fascinating documentary about 70s glam rock musician Jobriath. Jobraith is considered to be "the first openly gay rock star" and was dubbed "the American Bowie". He was also, tragically, one of the first rock stars to die of AIDS. He […]

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Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

Headingley HEART Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley,, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

A documentary on the music and career of the influential musician Scott Walker. Scott Walker first became famous in the 1960s, as lead singer of the pop trio The Walker Brothers. The film follows his musical and personal journey into his later career as solo artist, avant garde composer and more recently, record producer. Artists he has […]

£5 – £6

Do the Right Thing

Wharf Chambers Ground Floor, 23 - 25 Wharf Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

The event is the launch of Leeds Cineforum, previously The Arts PGR Film Club.   Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film by Spike Lee. The Oscar nominated film centers around the racial tension in a Brooklyn neighbourhood, bubbling just beneath the surface, which finally explodes on the hottest day of the […]

£3

Jingle Bell Rocks!

Jingle Bell Rocks! ...searching for the Soul of Christmas Music. A festive film event in conjunction with The Culture Vultures & Scalarama Leeds. 5.00pm - 6.00pm Before the screening, join us at the Hyde Park Picture House as local authors Clare Fisher & Chris Nickson present some of their favourite Christmas stories.   6.00pm - […]

£5.50 – £8.00

Scalarama Leeds meeting: who wants to be a cinema?

Baines Wing Seminar Room (3.06) University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Scalarama is an annual festival of independent cinema that takes place for the whole month of September. People from across the city come together to put all kinds of films on in venues of all shapes and sizes. Would you like to know more? Come along to one of our meetings and get involved! All […]

Scalarama Leeds June planning meeting

Join us for the next Scalarama Leeds planning meeting at Outlaws Yacht Club. Scalarama's celebration of cinema is fast approaching, less than 100 days away! It's time to get your screenings confirmed and start filling up our calender with some amazing film events! 

Scalarama Leeds 1968 Opening Night Party!

The Brudenell Social Club 33 Queen's Road, Leeds, United Kingdom

Why 1968? 1968 was a year that practically ripped up American culture - Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated within days of each other, Andy Warhol was shot by a radical feminist and Star Trek shocked the world with American television's first interracial kiss. Young men forcibly recruited for the Vietnam war burned […]

FREE

Flicker+Pulse

Chapel FM Arts Centre Old Seacroft Chapel, York Road, Leeds, United Kingdom

Come and see an amazing time-lapse film of a beautiful English walled garden and then join us for home-grown food and drink on the Chapel FM allotment. Using real-time and time-lapse footage, the film explores the relationship between the seasons and the plants and people who work within the walls of the garden. Locked into […]

Pay-What-You-Can

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Dinner and a movie

The Reliance 76-78 North Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

A Dinner & Cinema experience at the Little Reliance Cinema! FILM STARTS AT 7:30PM WITH DINNER FROM 6PM TICKETS ARE  £13    AVAILABLE FROM THE BAR OR OVER THE PHONE. 0113 295 6060

£13

Secret Cinema Scalarama Special

Inkwell Arts 31 Potternewton Lane, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, United Kingdom

The Secret Cinema has been one of Inkwell Art’s huge success stories and has been running for over six years bringing communities together using the magic of cinema and the power of good wholesome food. We are hosting a special evening offering a unique cinema and dining experience in our warm friendly gallery space in […]

£10

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Memory Matinees

Headingley HEART Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley,, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

A free screening of the 1954 musical film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Set in the 1850s, Adam goes into town seeking a wife to run the household. He finds Milly, a waitress, and persudes her to come home with him to his ranch in Oregon. There, she discovers that Adam and his six brothers, […]

FREE

Radio Atlas: The Double + experimental silent shorts

Chapel FM Arts Centre Old Seacroft Chapel, York Road, Leeds, United Kingdom

On a dark night, in a small Danish town, Thomas Andersen has a violent encounter with his double. A screening with a difference - Radio Atlas brings you incredible subtitled audio in languages other than English. The story of two young men who lived in Viborg, a small town in Denmark, both with the same […]

Pay-What-You-Can

The Firefighters’ Story: 100 years of the Fire Brigades Union

The Old Fire Station Gipton Approach, Leeds, United Kingdom

Filmed to commemorate its centenary this year, this new documentary film traces the history of the Fire Brigades Union since its inception at the end of the First World War, and the contribution the union has made over ten decades to improve public and firefighter safety through its campaigning work. It is being screened in […]

£2

The Firefighters’ Story: 100 years of the Fire Brigades Union

The Old Fire Station Gipton Approach, Leeds, United Kingdom

Filmed to commemorate its centenary this year, this new documentary film traces the history of the Fire Brigades Union since its inception at the end of the First World War, and the contribution the union has made over ten decades to improve public and firefighter safety through its campaigning work. It is being screened in […]

£2

Off the Beaten Path

For many of us from the first moment we enjoy the freedom that comes with riding a bike another thought occurs – where can I explore ? where will this bike take me ?  As riders have ventured further bikes have evolved to carry them on their journeys. “Off the Beaten Path” is an adventure cycling film celebrating […]

£6

Crumb at The Little Reliance Cinema | Thought Bubble festival

The Reliance 76-78 North Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

A special Scalarama + Thought Bubble screening of the 1994 documentary Crumb by Terry Zwigoff. The master of the misfit film, Zwigoff creates a fascinating and intimate portrait of one of America's most iconic, innovative and prolific underground cartoonists, Robert Crumb. Crumb's notorious career began in 1968 with the publication of the first issue of Zap comix […]

£5

Women’s Animation From Near And Far

This 90-minute programme, presented by Leeds Animation Workshop, will include the premiere of a new short film made at the Workshop, as well as a couple of old and new favourites from the local women’s collective, set up 40 years ago.  Also showing: a selection of films by women animators from the UK, and around the […]

£5.50 – £7.80

Open Mic Night: Scalarama Special

Chapel FM Arts Centre Old Seacroft Chapel, York Road, Leeds, United Kingdom

For one month only in September we are teaming up with the Scalarama film festival in Leeds and are asking people to out a bit of a film-twist on their performances—film music, dialogue, comedy…that kind of thing. And yes we can screen short films too…have fun! “What a brilliant, brilliant place to perform in.” In […]

Donations welcome

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

This was one of the sensations of 2017, and was the closing film of the Leeds International Film Festival. It also won the Oakwood Cinema ‘audience choice’ vote earlier this year! Three Billboards is an unusual film; it deals with murder, revenge, grief and loss, as well as police violence and racism, but it is […]

£4 – £5

Leeds Palestinian Film Festival: Film + Food Fundraiser

Woodhouse Community Centre 197 Woodhouse Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

Leeds Palestinian Film Festival Fundraiser We need to raise funds for this year's Film Festival in order to pay for some great films and travel expenses for speakers coming from other places. Please come and support us! Along with a tasty Middle eastern buffet we'll be showing one of our favourite Palestinian films, The Wanted […]

£10

Rudeboy: The Story Of Trojan Records at Brudenell Social Club

Brudenell Social Club 33 Queens Road, Leeds, United Kingdom

Scalarama Leeds Programme launch at the Brudenell Social Club The first screening in Leeds of a brand new doumentary that traces the history of the world's most iconic ska, reggae and rock-steady record label, Trojan Records. Trojan Records started in Jamaica in 1968 with Duke Reid’s Trojan Sound System. Rudeboy: The Story Of Trojan Records […]

£5.50 – £7

Lions Love (…and Lies)

The Reliance 76-78 North Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

Agnès Varda brings New York counterculture to Los Angeles. In a rented house in the sun-soaked Hollywood Hills, a woman and two men, Viva, of Warhol Factory fame, and James Rado and Gerome Ragni, who created and starred in the rock musical “Hair,” delight in one another's bodies while musing on love, stardom, and politics. […]

£5

Memory Matinees: The Glenn Miller Story

Headingley HEART Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley,, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

James Stewart and June Allyson star in a delightful biography of Glenn Miller, a talented young trombone player who became one of the most popular big-band leaders of all time. This is a funny, celebratory and sympathetic tribute to a talented musician who, at the outbreak of World War Two, was willing to travel to […]

Free

Open Day at the Hyde Park Picture House

The Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds is a Grade II listed cinema, built in 1914. Visitors can explore the beautiful auditorium of the historic cinema and learn lots of fun facts about the building on a self guided tour anytime from 10am - 3pm. The Hyde Park Picture House is a fully functioning cinema […]

FREE

Portrait of Jason

The Reliance 76-78 North Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

On the night of December 2, 1966, Shirley Clarke and a tiny crew convened in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea to make a film. There, for twelve straight hours they filmed the inimitable Jason Holliday as he spun tales, sang, donned costumes and reminisced about his experiences as a gay hustler, sometime houseboy and […]

£5

Scalarama Leeds Summer Screenings: Perfect 10 (2019)

Headingley HEART Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley,, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

84mins | Rated 15 | UK | Director: Eva Riley | Programmer: Fran Albrecht ‘Perfect 10’ tells the story of 14-year old Leigh (Frankie Box), a gymnast who struggles to get her flow back since her mum’s death. Her life takes an unexpected turn when her unknown half brother Joe (Alfie Deegan) suddenly appears. Through […]

£3 – £20

Beatside & Scalarama Leeds present: Janvāris (January)

Left Bank Leeds Cardigan Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Beatside presents: Dreamers & Rebels This is an event for the mad ones – those who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to dance, and mad to dream and to rebel. To kickstart our series, we are delighted to present a slice of Latvian culture and history with an eerily timely screening of […]

Pay what you can

Scalarama Leeds 2024 Meeting and Fundraiser

Wharf Chambers Ground Floor, 23 - 25 Wharf Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Scalarama Leeds' first meeting of the year will also be a fundraiser for this year's film festival! If you have never put on a film screening and would like to learn how, this would be a perfect time to meet the group. The first meeting is an intro to the film festival, to meet everyone […]

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