FAUK commissioned report 'Invisible Innovators' launched by UEA
Next meeting? 28th June 2021Film Archives UK (FAUK) brings together archives, archivists, associate organisations and individuals who are interested in and committed to the work and development of the UK’s public sector film archives.
For a taste of the material we hold, why not watch our video showcasing some of the treasures from our collections?
The UEA’s report, ‘Invisible Innovators', making women filmmakers visible across the UK’s Film Archives is now available. It has been commissioned by Film Archives UK to explore the current scale and scope of the holdings of women’s amateur filmmaking within the regional and national film and media archives and to investigate ways of optimising their visibility. 6.3.20
FAUK'S next quarterly meeting will take place via ZOOM on Monday 28th June 2021 2-4pm. Zoom invites will be sent to Members in due course. We hope all our Members and friends are keeping safe and well. For more information about FAUK and membership, please contact administrator@filmarchives.org.uk
Thanks to funding from the British Film Institute and from the Heritage Lottery Fund two new projects have recently begun at MACE.
BFI Discovery Fund
We welcome three new members of staff will who will work with us on the BFI’s Discovery Fund project until the end of March next year and who will be exploring the collections for material to digitise and offer to the BFI for their new BFI Player. This exciting national development will make a wealth of material from the UK’s film archives available to view in one place.
Mandeep Kaur-Lakhan will be the project curator exploring little known corners of the collection uncovering hidden gems for this project; Kayla Thompson, our technician, will be attending to the technical issues associated with the examination of over 900 reels of material; Eliza Richardson will be researching the copyright situation of material and clearing the path towards its use.
Heritage Lottery Fund – Vinegar Syndrome Project
We are joined by Joanna White and Sue Winn to work on the restoration of an important collection of decaying film material passed to us by the Wolverhampton Borough Archives. Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, we will be digitising and reconstructing films made by a Wolverhampton based company called Warners in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
We will be aided in our endeavours by a team of volunteers who will be recruited in Wolverhampton and who will undertake the research on Warners and their films. We will also be creating an exhibition about the project with the volunteers when the project is completed in March 2015.
