'Home, Identity and Citizenship': Preserving, using and making a regional screen heritage.

11am-12pm AND 2pm-3pm: ‘A Touch of Eastern Promise’ (1973) & ‘A Box of Swan’ (1990)

12pm-1pm: ‘Joe the Chainsmith’ (1958) & ‘A Story of Cradley Heath’ (2010)

1pm-2pm: ‘Made in Birmingham’ (2010)

3pm-4.30pm: ‘Fellow Traveller’ (1991 )

Sponsored by Screen West Midlands

A public event open to all

Get involved, be inspired!

DATE: Saturday 5th March

TIME: 11-430

Organised and hosted by Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research
Birmingham City University
Margaret St Campus

Since 2009, Screen West Midlands has supported a range of projects designed to make a range of film archives and materials available to the public.

Funded by the Digital Film Archive Fund these projects have explored film and television materials concerning the pop music of Birmingham, documentary and workplaces such as Cadburys and the BBC at Pebble Mill.

Come along to this free event to hear about the work of these projects and to see screenings of examples of the film heritage of the midlands region.

Find out more about how to use and develop archives in the digital age.

Full schedule to follow - watch this site, subscribe or email: paul.long@bcu.ac.uk for updates.

The Digital Film Archive Fund (DFAF) was set up by the UK Film Council to increase public access to regional screen heritage. Screen heritage encompasses moving image media, from traditional film and television to artist's film and video, animation and digital material distributed via the internet, to contextual material including scripts, designs, marketing and publicity material and documents relating to production, distribution and consumption. 

The aim of the Fund is ‘to support innovative programmes ensuring wider access to the UK's screen heritage’ which aligns to the vision of the strategy for UK Screen Heritage. The vision is that the public is entitled to access, learn about and enjoy its rich screen heritage wherever they live and wherever the materials are held.

Birmingham and the wider region is home to some if the UK’s most innovative digital creative and cultural businesses; developing international award-winning and commercially successful computer games, TV programmes and feature films for global markets.

Screen WM is the strategic lead organisation for the growing and dynamic audio-visual creative sectors in the Midlands. Its remit is to work with national and local government, and other partners, to ensure the screen media industries are supported, promoted and developed. Through focused intervention it provides highly specialist business support, public-private commercial investment and advocacy for emerging and high growth digital creative and cultural companies.