Christoph Warrack Founder of The Open Cinema

The Open Cinema every week introduces a film with relative director to London homeless.

Christoph Warrack is the founder of Open Cinema , an organization that every week shows a film to an audience of homeless people . The initiative was born four years ago in Soho, where Christoph has his office - in a room of St. Patrick's church, just a couple of blocks from Bar Italia - but it soon expanded.

Between May and October, clubs will open in cities including Bristol and Newcastle-upon-Tyne as part of a six-month pilot, which will see nine more clubs open in England along with a change of name for the network to Open Cinema in a move to reposition the art form as a more audience-led, participatory, community function. The success is due to the fact that screenings are introduced by important characters from the cinema world. Film-makers Stephen Frears, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach all introduced their own films and the same goes for such actors as Rupert Graves or composers as Dario Marianelli. In fact now is one of the most interesting events and not to be missed in London.