TRAINING, EVENTS & COURSES
UPCOMING EVENTS
1. A FREE, ONLINE, INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP EXPLORING NEW WAYS FOR AUDIENCES OF SCREEN HERITAGE COLLECTIONS.
Learning, Sharing, Building is a practical, interactive workshop exploring new ways for audiences to discover, experience and participate in screen heritage collections. Drawing on international learning from museums and archives, the session will also bring in Hamilton Robson, a creative technology company specialising in immersive experiences, digital storytelling and audience engagement, to explore audience-centred experience design, emerging technologies and ideas that can work at different scales and budgets.
24 September 2026 | 14:00
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2. ‘SCREEN TIME: FACING (UP TO) THE DIGITAL BLACK HOLE’ – Join the Yorkshire Film Archive at their upcoming knowledge sharing event.
A reflection on their Screen Time project, this special online session will share insights, lessons learned, and case studies from the year-long project.
9th October 2026 11.30am
Screen Time was Yorkshire Film Archive’s first focused contemporary collecting initiative, creating a moving image legacy for Bradford during its landmark year as 2025 UK City of Culture. Through community engagement, strategic partnerships, and digital preservation, the project acquired over 480 films reflecting the lives, stories, and experiences of people across the District, significantly broadening diversity and representation within the Archive’s Collection.
Aimed at heritage and archive professionals (not just those working with film), the event will build confidence in collecting and preserving born-digital material, with opportunities to ask questions and share experiences. Please feel free to share with your wider networks.
You can find more information about the session and reserve your place here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screen-time-facing-up-to-the-digital-black-hole-tickets-1997852609937
Archived events 2023-2025
FAUK – ‘FOCUS’ EVENTS’
Focus on Copyright and the AI Disruptor – 18th September ’25
FAUK’s online ‘FOCUS’ event investigated the hot topic of Copyright and AI A review and update on considerations for copyright and AI in film archives
The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technology on copyright is certainly a hot topic and a subject of academic, legal, and policy debate.
FAUK’s online ‘Focus’ event, ‘COPYRIGHT & THE AI DISRUPTOR‘, drew a large audience from right across our Membership. Presented by Annie Shaw, the BFI’s Public Access Researcher, attendees were given an interesting and educational review and update on considerations for copyright and AI in film archives.
Focus on AI – 14th March ‘25
• Francis Jones (Head of Heritage & Archive, Northern Ireland Screen) presented the case study of NIS’s proof-of-concept project to evaluate the use of AWS Transcribe and Bedrock for generating captions, AI chapter generations and meaningful video summaries from archive media files, with the aim of streamlining the process of creating accurate, time-synced captions and summaries, enhancing accessibility, as well as improving user engagement.
• Alastair Bell & Ann Cameron, (respectively, Head of Moving Image, Sound & Music Collections and Curator, National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive) shared their experience working on their Moving Images project (as a finalist in the FutureScot AI Challenge competition 2024) to create a proof of concept discovery layer on collections, using AI tools to generate description and supply data for browsing tools. Issues covered include copyright & ethics, quality of data created, the search and browse interface experience and next steps for moving image collections.
More info here
Focus on Collections & Diversity – 15th Nov ‘24
• The Northern Ireland Now contemporary collecting project (Elspeth Vischer, Project Coordinator)
• Archive film exhibition and diverse collections (Andy Robson, Consultant, Film Hub North)
More info here
Focus on Inclusive Cataloguing – 30th April ‘24
• “Exploring the semantics of cataloguing as basis for revising catalogue entries” – Helen Mavin, Head of Photographs IWM
• Ukrainian Video Archives Society – TNA Archives Revealed Case Study – Megan McCooley, Collections Manager YFA/NEFA
• The Wessex Film & Screen Archive Cataloguing Resource Pack – Zoe Viney Burgess, Film Curator WFSA
Focus on Storage and Sustainability – 27th Sept ‘23
• Rob Ewart (Collections Care Manager, BFI Conservation Centre) – Case study on physical storage of the BFI National Archive
• Sean Kelly (Archive Education Technologist, EAFA) – Case study on storage at the East Anglian Film Archive
• Keir Powell-Lewis (Head of Environmental Sustainability, BFI) – Environmental Sustainability at the BFI
• Simon Clark (Business Development Director, iMetaFilm) – A sustainable way to save film?