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  • BUFVC Copyright Guide

    Our up-to-date guide supports those using moving image and sound media in HE and FE. Written in an accessible, jargon-free free style, it considers how to use third party content, legal exceptions, licensing bodies and much more besides.

  • Learning on Screen Awards 2013


    The winners of the Learning on Screen Awards 2013 were announced at an award ceremony on the evening of 18 April 2013. View the winners, nominations and photos from the evening and discover the leading productions in learning, teaching and research here.

  • Summer Viewfinder is here

    Viewfinder 91 includes articles on audiovisual citation, 1960s British cinema-going, the online delivery of the Roundabout cinemagazine and Dziga Vertov’s early Soviet newsreels, accessing the archive of BBC World service … and much more!

  • Latest on the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,350 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/ Chronicle This selection of documentaries from the long-running BBC archaeology series …

  • World Cinema On-Demand

    World Cinema On-Demand: Film Distribution and Education in the Streaming Media Era 26 June 2013, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland 11am – 4.30pm http://worldcinemaod.wordpress.com/ This workshop is part of the AHRC-funded World Cinema On-Demand networking project that aims to investigate the impact of streaming services on world cinema distribution, consumption and teaching. Speakers will include: …

  • BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests

    For the week ending 10th May 2013, the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service focus on drama, music, the history of TV, the consequences of Google’s infringement of literary copyright and the experiences of people recently in jail. 1. UNITED STATES OF TELEVISION: AMERICA IN PRIMETIME (BBC2) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB …

  • Forget Me Not: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age

    Forget-me-not: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age 7 June 2013 Nesta, 1 Plough Place, EC4A 1DE, London Forget-me-not is the third Memory Network event, organised in collaboration with the charity that promotes innovation in the United Kingdom, Nesta. The Memory network is a collaborative project by the AHRC, The University of Roehampton (opens in a new window), …

  • Audio recordings from the ‘Channel 4 and British Film Culture’ conference

    Audio recordings of the papers from the ‘Channel 4 and British Film Culture’ conference can now be found on the project website at: www.c4film.co.uk/conference-2012/schedule This conference, which was held at the BFI Southbank in November 2012, celebrated thirty years of Film on Four/Film4 and was an outcome of an ongoing 4 year (2010-2014) AHRC funded …

  • BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests

    For the week ending 3rd May 2013, the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service focus almost entirely on british film and TV. 1. BBC NEWS (BBC1) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more information, please go to the BBC website 2. LONDON’S HOLLYWOOD (ITV1) View TRILT record For more information, please go to …

  • New additions to the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,350 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/ Access Agriculture This website showcases agricultural training videos, specifically aimed at …

  • Black and Asian performers working in Shakespeare

    Telling the untold history of Black and Asian performers working in Shakespeare in the UK is the subject of the latest film from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The film British Black and Asian Shakespeare: Writing a History traces how the theatre reflects changes in wider society. The release of the film coincides …

  • Radical Film Symposium – 13th June 2013

    A TIME FOR INVENTION: a symposium of radical filmmaking 13 June 2013 · 10:30 to 18:00 The Void, Owen Level 2, Sheffield Hallam University Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences · Media Arts http://atimeforinventionsymposium.eventbrite.co.uk/ The late 60’s and 70’s saw the development of documentary film collectives in the UK that addressed the burning political …

  • New articles and reviews at Viewfinder Online

    Viewfinder Online aggregates some of the content from the Viewfinder print magazine but also published new and original material. Some of the latest items published on the site include: We Need to Talk about Dying Someone in Britain dies every minute but many risk missing out on having their end of life wishes met due …