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WEDNESDAY 22nd January 2014


10.00 am Registration
10.15 WELCOME from BFI (David Somerset)

10-20 – WELCOME TO PROJECT – SM, CC, RC

10.45 am Keynote 1: "Community cultural expression and human development in a global perspective" Yudhishthir Raj Isar (University of Paris) (Chair: Roberta Comunian)

11.30 am Break

11.45 am SESSION 1

Film and Cultural Diversity
(Chair: Sarita Malik)

1.1. Producing Cultural Diversity in Britain in a Day: Amateur Filmmaking meets the Quality Discourse Daniel Ashton (Bath Spa University)
1.2. Cultural Identity, Diversity and Filmmaking: the Experience of ‘Manifesta’™ in supporting Social Expression Marion Vargaftig (Manifesta™)
1.3. Diversity, Community and Performativity: how does Community and Place act on Film? Marta Rabikowska  (University of  Hertfordshire) and Matthew Hawkins (Coventry University)

Generation and  Media Participation
(Chair: Roberta Comunian)

1.4. Reframing Youth: Community Video Practices and Approaches Then and Now Edward Webb-Ingall (Filmmaker & Writer)
1.5.  Understanding the Impact of Adult Intermediaries on Cultural Diversity in Youth Filmmaking Alicia Blum-Ross (London School of Economics)
1.6. Persuasion through Performance: The Futurity of Children in Amateur Documentary Ryan Shand (University of  Glasgow)

13.15 pm Lunch

14.15  pm Keynote 2: Video Culture and Everyday Creativity David Buckingham (Loughborough University) (Chair: Sarita Malik)

15.00 pm Break

15.30 pm SESSION 2

Practices, Production and Innovation
(Chair: Caroline Chapain)

2.1. The Community Film Production Process Eileen Leahy (Trinity College, Dublin)
2.2.Negotiating Between Culture, Commerce, Art and Etiquette. Contemporary Community Filmmaking in British and German Contexts Daniel Mutibwa (Leeds University)
2.3. Caught in a Trap:  Policy and Practice in Community Filmmaking Mark Dunford
(University of Brighton & Digitales)

Place and community  film-making
(Chair: Roberta Comunian)

2.4. Cultural Hybridity in Community Filmmaking: Case Study of South Blessed Community Channel
Shawn Sobers, Jonathan Dovey and Emma Agusita (University of the West of England)
2.5. Traversals, Inhabitations, Constellations: Asian/American Independent Filmmaking and Collaborative Praxis in Asia Anita Chang (University of California at Santa Cruz)
2.6. RSA Pakistan Calling film project www.thersa.org/pkcalling Anwar Akhtar (Director of The Samosa) and Jane Barnwell (University of Westminster)

17.00 pm Break

17.15 pm Community Film Making and Cultural Diversity: Project Findings
and Partners’ Showcase (with drinks and snacks)
(All)


20.00 Close

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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 23rd January 2014

9.10am Arrival

9.30 am Keynote 3:  Diversity, Innovation and the Screen Charles Davis (Roger Communication Centre, Canada) (Chair: Caroline Chapain)



10:15 am Break

10.30 am SESSION 3

 Film as a a radical tool
(Chair: Sarita Malik)

3.1. Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool Deirdre O'Neill (InsideFilm & University of Ulster)
3.2 "They Do Not Represent Us!" The "Indignados" Movement and Participatory Filmmaking on the Internet David Montero (University of Seville)
3.3. Beatz, Camera, Action, (Race, Youth Culture and Media Participation)
Orson Nava (Freelance Filmmaker & Lecturer)

Gender and sexual politics
(Chair: Roberta Comunian)

3.4. The Promise of Collaboration: An Impossible Place? Nandini Sikand (Layafette College,
USA)
3.5. Fleshing out Feminist Visual Methods: Film, Power and Place Sarah Marie Wiebe (University of Victoria)
3.6. Community Filmmaking and Queer Politics Helen Wright (Lock Up Your Daughters Filmmaking)

12.00 pm Lunch

13.00 pm Panel - Engaging Communities through Film
(Chair: Caroline Chapain)

Keynote 4: How to Engage Communities through Film in the US Duong-Chi Do (Community Cinema, USA)
 Keynote 5: Engaging Communities with Amateur Film Archives in the UK Heather Nicholson (University of Huddersfield) and Northern Exposure: the process, practice and collection of memories on film Karen Gabay (independent filmmaker)

14.10  pm Break

14.30 pm SESSION 4

 Identity and Representational Politics in the UK
(Chair: Sarita Malik)

4.1. Community Filmmaking, Activism and the Bristol Radical Film Festival Steve Presence
(University of the West of England) and Anthony Killick (University of Bristol)
4.2. Assembling Scottish Identities: The Northern Lights documentary film project Nick Higgins (Director of the University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media Academy)
4.3. I film therefore I am: Mediating Island Identity through Community Based Filmmaking
Kirsten Macleod (The University of the West of Scotland and Edinburgh Napier University)
4.4. The Ins and Outs of Imaging: Community Filmmaking Beyond Representation Rob
Coley, Janice Kearns and Adam O’Meara (University of Lincoln)

Community politics, social innovation and space
(Chair: Caroline Chapain)

4.5. Representing Local Communities on Screen: a Scottish Perspective Alistair Scott (Edinburgh Napier University)
4.6. Kingsland Junction. Communities under Pressure Paola Briata (University College London) and Enrico Masi (University of Bologna)
4.7. Stories on Social Innovation: Dialogues between the Moving Image Practice of Designers and Filmmakers Elisa Bertolotti, Andrea Mendoza and Francesca Piredda (Politecnico di Milano)


16.35 pm Wrap Up
16.45 pm Close, end of conference