BFI Film Academy Labs are online events for 16 – 25 year olds to gain industry insight and get professional advice and support to develop their own film programming and film making practices. Programmed by the Young Film Programmers’ Network (South East) they are delivered as practical masterclasses, workshops and networking sessions.
About the session
This month we are delighted to welcome Simon McCallum, BFI Archive Projects Curator, to share his experience of working across BFI’s digital platforms and programming archive films for festivals.
As Archive Projects Curator for the BFI, Simon works on special events and broadcast collaborations which help bring the riches of the BFI National Archive to a wider audience. He has programmed BFI Southbank events and seasons including To the Ends of the Earth: Exploration & Endurance on Film (Jan 2022) and Gross Indecency: Queer Lives Before & After the ’67 Act (Jul-Aug 2017). He was Archive Consultant on Queerama (Daisy Asquith, 2017) and Arcadia (Paul Wright, 2018) and is Executive Producer of a forthcoming Universal Pictures feature documentary. He is currently working on the StoryTrails project, using archive in immersive AR & VR experiences touring the UK as part of UNBOXED 2022.
This session will be live-captioned, we will provide instructions on how to access the captions at the beginning of the event. If you have any questions about the event please get in touch at: info@independentcinemaoffice.org.uk
You can watch recordings of some of our previous Labs on the ICO YouTube channel.
Speakers
Simon McCallum
Archive Projects Curator, British Film Institute
Simon is a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s Film Archiving MA, and was the first archive intern at Francis Ford Coppola’s production company American Zoetrope in San Francisco. After joining the BFI in 2005, he worked on the launch and programming of BFI Mediatheques around the UK and helped launch the BFI’s YouTube channel. His writing has appeared in Sight & Sound and the BFI Compendiums 39 Steps to the Genius of Hitchcock, Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film and Who Can You Trust?: The Thriller in Film and Television.