News Archive for May, 2012

  • BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests

    For the week ending 4 May 2012 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include programmes range from drama to social documentary, from depictions of Ancient Rome to modern child rearing. 1.MAKING SLOUGH HAPPY (BBC2) View TRILT record For more information visit the BBC website 2. THE DOLL: SHORT STORIES BY DAPHNE DU MAURIER (BBC […]

  • ‘Short on Work’ Film Competiton

    SHORT on WORK 2012 – International Competition of short documentaries on work Global short-video contest on contemporary work 2012 Deadline for entries:  10 July 2012. This short film competition is part of a research program by the Marco Biagi Foundation, International Doctoral Research School in Labour Relations, aimed at identifying new typological criteria – theoretical, […]

  • Creative Commons videos

    Vimeo, the social networking video hosting hub, has developed a Creative Commons resource for those looking to re-use pre-existing moving image content under the carious CC licences. http://vimeo.com/creativecommons From this page users can browse the Creative Commons licensed videos on Vimeo. Learn about what they can and can’t do with other people’s videos on Vimeo […]

  • ‘Powers of the False’ symposium

    Institut Francais, London, 18-19 May www.powersofthefalse.org/powers_of_the_false/ A two-day symposium on the ethics of falsification and fiction in the documentary film is being held at the Institut Francais, London, on 18-19 May. Screenings and panels will address the complex ethics of the manipulation of real people and events in documentary, fact-fiction hybrid cinema and artists’ moving […]

  • BoB and Chronicle disruption

    Some BoB National and Chronicle users are currently experiencing problems logging in. We have spoken to Eduserve, who are currently tweaking the BoB National configuration, and hope to provide details of a positive outcome shortly. We also expect to have Chronicle available again shortly. If you have any queries, please get in touch as follow: […]

  • ‘Year of Shakespeare’ interactive website launched

    yearofshakespeare.com is an interactive, digital project created by the Shakespeare Institute, the University of Warwick, and The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to document and discuss the performances and ideas emerging from the World Shakespeare Festival. The website features reviews of each of the World Shakespeare Festival productions special features from academics, artists, and educators involved in […]

  • The Angel of History: Marc Karlin

    Last month (on the weekend of the 13th-15th April) I attended a fascinating conference in Bristol based around an exhibition and archive film screenings, which was called ‘The Spirit of Marc Karlin’, celebrating the work of the pioneering independent filmmaker. This was co-ordinated by Holly Aylett, Hermione Harris and Andy Robson. It was the one […]

  • BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests

    For the week ending 27 April 2012 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include programmes on Shakespeare, ceramics, autism and plastic. 1.SHAKESPEARE’S RESTLESS WORLD (BBC RADIO 4) View TRILT record or listen now on BoB National For more information visit the BBC website 2. CERAMICS: HOW THEY WORK (BBC4) View TRILT […]

  • 56 Up at BAFTA today

    The Seven Up series of TV documentaries by Michael Apted has followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964 at seven yearly intervals, with the next edition planned for screening on ITV later in 2012. Today there will be a special screening at BAFTA in London of 56 Up, the new film in the […]

  • Wartime Newsreel British News Now Online

    Issues of the newsreel British News is now online and available for download from the British Council Film Collections website. This war-time newsreel was produced for the British Council by the Newsreel Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This meant that every week one of the five major newsreel companies, which made up the […]