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News Archive for August, 2013

  • BFI Future Film Festival 2014

    Every February, the BFI hosts the annual Future Film Festival with a packed line up of workshops, masterclasses, networking opportunities, screenings and Q&As at BFI Southbank. We also give awards to the best short films we screen at the festival, and this year we have six £500 prizes to give away! www.ideastap.com/Partners/bfi//future-film-festival So, if you’re […]

  • Media Screen Roundup – July 2013

    With the new BBC series Sherlock imminent and the revelation of the new Doctor Who, it seems appropriate that these two icons of British popular culture are presented in the latest Roundup. Sherlock and his recent manifestations are discussed in Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century edited by Lynnette Porter which has 14 essays on […]

  • Recently added to the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,400 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into   over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or  amendments, please contact us by email or telephone or visit  the Gateway at  http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ Deutsche Welle This is the website of Germany’s international broadcaster, which provides a wide range […]

  • BBFC Annual Report

    British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has published its annual report. For 2012, its centenary year, it draws attention to the creation of a new website to bring together the main BBFC homepage, the BBFC website for parents (PBBFC) and the BBFC education website for students (SBBFC). The new BBFC website allows users to watch […]

  • Screens of Violence – symposium

    Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton 21 November 2013 The Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture, University of Wolverhampton is organising a one day symposium at the Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton Thursday on the depiction of violence on the screen and its relationship to mediation. Programme: 10.00-12.30 Illustrated talk on censorship by the BBFC […]

  • Semantic Media @ The British Library

    British Library Conference Centre 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB 23 September 2013 The Semantic Media project aims at establishing an open network uniting research efforts related to the development of novel tools and standards for organizing and navigating in digital media archives. In this context, the British Library as one of the two largest […]

  • Screening European Heritage – Conference

    12-13 September 2013 Weetwood Hall, Leeds Bringing together a vast range of film and media scholars, and featuring keynote speeches by Andrew Higson and Claire Monk, this conference will investigate historical forms of and recent trends in heritage film on a European scale. You can download the programme here. Scholars who are interested in attending […]

  • August offerings on the Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,400 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into   over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or  amendments, please contact us by email or telephone or visit  the Gateway at  http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ Great Writers Inspire Hosted by the University of Oxford, and curated by members of the […]

  • BUFVC at ALT Conference 2013

    The BUFVC will be exhibiting at the ALT Conference 2013. The event will be taking place at the East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham, 10-12 September 2013. The ALT annual conference is the UK’s main conference for learning technologists and provides a valuable and practical forum for practitioners, researchers, managers and policy-makers from education […]

  • Survey: Digital TV and HOH audiences in Wales

    This survey is hosted at Swansea University and funded by Action on Hearing Loss, BBC Wales, Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and S4C. Through this study, we hope to gain a better understanding of the benefits that digital television has brought to viewers in Wales, and the possible barriers to enjoying television services that affect viewers with […]