Expanding the Frame
About our events
Opening doors and breaking down barriers for disabled audiences
Expanding the Frame is MAC's three-year project supported by Film Hub Midlands which is focussing on significantly improving access to cinema for disabled audiences in the West Midlands.
As part of this, MAC has been piloting new programmes and events to ensure that disabled people can experience film in an accessible environment, as well as seeing themselves reflected on screen.
Expanding the Frame is made possible by the generosity of Film Hub Midlands. This project is also kindly supported by Mr Geoff Poole, in loving memory of Mrs Carol Poole.
About the programme
touch screen
Join artist Sarah Hamilton Baker in MAC’s cinema for a sensory journey through film. During these relaxed screenings you will be invited to touch, smell and feel your way through a collection of shorts.
Disability on Film
A season of films which look at how disabled people have been portrayed on screen.
The films have been selected by Elaine Joseph, an associate programmer for MAC Cinema who is an audio describer and founding member of SoundScribe and Conor O’Donovan, a guest programmer with lived experience of disability who is keen to get audiences to think beyond the usual tropes.
Inclusive cinema
MAC is also improving access across its wider cinema programme with increased use of descriptive subtitles and audio description, and greater representation of disabled stories and voices.
