Based in the northeast UK, Good Cave Projects is an umbrella for the integrated cinema practice of Christo Wallers in collaboration with other collectives, groups and individuals. If you are interested in exploring a collaboration in filmmaking, film screening, film education or academic research, please get in contact.

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Integrated cinema practice: GCP is influenced by the film projects who evolved under the banner of the UK workshop movement, and who believed cinema had a social function to provide spaces to critically engage in the world around them. To this end many workshops rejected the division of film into elements in an industrial chain - production, distribution and exhibition, and developed their own systems that connected or ‘integrated’ these elements with education as well. 

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Good Cave: the name is informed by a great article by Anna Schober who wrote about alternative film screening culture in South and East Europe in the 70s-90s. She wanted to draw attention to fascinating groups of marginalised ‘cinema-makers’ who wanted to create spaces of refuge and nurture to be able to stage expressions of their own freedom. It is also a play on the allegory of Plato’s Cave.