NEW BIOS!

Two additional biographies of women filmmakers from our project are now up on our website. Find out more about:
- Laurie Day
- Sarah Daly

Thanks to Melanie Williams for writing these for the project site.

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If you work at a UK or Irish archive (with audio-visual material in its collections) the Empowering Archivists project team would like to work with you & introduce you to our ‘Women in Focus’ Archive toolkit.

More info on project/toolkit here: uea.ac.uk/groups-and-cen…
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These arrived in the office yesterday - the physical copies of our toolkit look gorgeous!

We’ll be sending some out and using the rest in archive training sessions through 2024.

Until then, you can check out the online version here: uea.ac.uk/web/groups-and…

The problem? The work of women amateur filmmakers is often hidden or obscured in film archives.

The solution? Check out our NEW archive toolkit with specific advice on how to make these women more visible!

Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council & IrishResearchCouncil

uea.ac.uk/web/groups-and…

Nice to see my colleagues on the Women in Focus project nominated for this award.

Shout out to Melanie Williams Paul Frith and the EAFA team for all their work!

My younger, poorer, unemployed & working class self used to dream of having my book on the shelves of Waterstones Edinburgh West End

Today I found one!

(I mean, I thought it would be an award-winning fiction book and not an academic tome… but still a win!)

A big thank you to Women in Focus Keith M. Johnston EAFA for the continued support over the past few years. Very proud to have been part of such a great project and look forward to hearing more from the team as they continue this fantastic work in my absence!

It’s a busy week for the Women in Focus team - we’re trying to figure out how to encapsulate 23 months of research and archive work into clear and concise “tools” to aid current & future archive practice.

So, em, no pressure then…

Thank you Zoë Viney Burgess Keith M. Johnston for a rewarding (albeit brief) research trip to Winchester. After working our way through 140+ film cans this morning, it's now time to dig a little deeper into the work of the women filmmakers we've discovered Women in Focus

Our busy summer continues.

With #DWFTH6 over, two of the project team ( Paul Frith & Keith M. Johnston ) are off to Winchester to discuss a new amateur collection with Zoë Viney Burgess & colleagues - and maybe uncover some more women filmmakers?!

Watch this space!

Just booked tickets to see Brian Butterfield in Manchester The Stoller Hall this Oct. I've been informed that I'll receive an 'E-ticket' 2 weeks prior to the event. Is this like a luncheon voucher for some class-A drugs?

Is it Friday already?

That means our #DWFTH6 panel is today!

3.15-4.45pm, Fulton B (and online)

Our brilliant project colleagues Melanie Williams Dr Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social & Sarah Arnold present ‘Archiving Interventions: embedding feminist praxis in audiovisual archive metadata’

If you're in Leeds tonight head down to The Wardrobe Leeds for your last chance to see SNL's James Austin Johnson on his UK tour. Hilarious set Frog and Bucket MCR in Manchester last night. Everything from Trump's take on Courtney Cox in a fat suit to Outlaw Country
James Austin Johnson Saturday Night Live - SNL

Early contender for film of the year Picturehouse Entertainment War Pony. Such a fantastic cast, funny and tragic in equal measures. Currently showing HOME

Just at the halfway point during this afternoon's performance of Wagatha Play The Lowry
Great performances and plenty of laughs so far! Highly recommended if you get the chance.

Very early start this morning. Heading to Eye Filmmuseum for the ‘Activating the Archive’ conference.

I’m presenting tomorrow morning (Mon 11.30) with Paul Frith & @lornarichardson - on women filmmakers in the archive (or the lack thereof) - part of Women in Focus

🖥️Wikipedia Editathon: Weds 24th May (Drop-in 10:00 to 16:00, UEA Media Suite)

Learn how to edit Wikipedia and improve the representation of women filmmakers for Women in Focus

Open to students and colleagues UEA

We'll see you there! 🙌

Join us at the International Amateur Cinema Between the Wars symposium, May 17-19 at Concordia University.

The film screening on May 18, 2-5 p.m. is open to the public. Registration for the symposium is free, but space is limited: email [email protected]

A few photos from today’s Philippa Miller exhibition launch - thanks Henry Cator Paul Frith EAFA Pop in & take a look - some stunning paintings, models & mega interesting video! #makeitstalham

Thanks to the team Museum of the Broads for a lovely afternoon at the Philippa Miller exhibition launch. Featuring some of Miller's amateur films digitised by EAFA as part of the Women in Focus project, the exhibition runs until the end of the year: shorturl.at/clpxJ