We are proud to be collaborating with an inspiring range of co-curators to bring you the 8th edition of Cinema Rediscovered and touring programme as part of Other Ways of Seeing, a development opportunity supported by BFI awarding funds from National Lottery. 

Our Co-Curators are...

Adam Murray

Co-Curator (Jeff Barnaby: The Art of Forgetfulness)

Adam is a regular contributor and programmer/partner with Bristol based and UK Film Collectives/Festivals: Come The Revolution, Cinema Rediscovered, Forbidden Worlds Film Festival, Cables & Cameras, Stormjar Studio, Horror Without End, Horror Studies Now at Northumbria University and contributed to a number of BFI UK wide seasons over the last decade. He set up the Bristol Black Horror Club in 2020 with his brother Edwin which explores all things Horror through a Black Diasporic lens. 

Dáire Carson

Co-Curator (The Wizard of Oz – 85th Anniversary)

Dáire’s love for films began as a child watching a VHS of "The Wizard of Oz" on a loop repeatedly, and his love for film has only grown since. He studied film and screen arts at Arts University Plymouth. After graduating in a post-COVID world, he created and directed a film festival for students in Belfast, creating a space for them to screen their work and meet fellow creatives working in the city. He’s currently studying an MA in Curation at UWE, enjoying on a curatorial placement at Watershed.

Diwas Dewan

Co-Curator (Kummatty)

Diwas is an artist and filmmaker, a member of 'Out the Window', an art collective formed with friends and a recent BEEF (Bristol Experimental Expanded Film) recruit.  He also volunteers at The Cube cinema, Bristol. 

Since his formative years as a UWE fine art student, Bristol has had a big impact on his practice. The collaborative spirit amongst artists, the interest shown in each other’s work and the support shared between the various artistic communities in the city, has always been his main inspiration when hosting exhibitions and film screenings.

Diwas is a regular attendee at ‘Cinema Rediscovered'. This year, he is excited to bring a film from the festival to The Cube, a much-loved independent cinema and art venue, in the heart of Kingsdown.

Fedor Tot 

Co-Curator (Queer Cinema from the Eastern Bloc)

Fedor is a Novi Sad-born, Cardiff-based film critic and curator specialising in Yugoslav and Eastern European cinema. He has bylines at MUBI Notebook, Senses of Cinema, Photogenie, Talking Shorts, ScreenSlate, and is a regular contributor to Vague Visages. He is a graduate of the Curating MA at UWE.

Harriet Taylor

Co-Curator (Female Trouble)

Harriet is a Bristolian producer, writer, and community organiser, who hit the ground running in cinema exhibition via the Film Hub South West’s Beyond Boundaries in 2022 when she established SWITCH: a cinema strand addressing the need for better gender representation and inclusivity in all cinema industries across the UK. Since 2023 she has been the producer and curator of the Queer Vision Film Festival and has collaborated with Slapstick Festival, Forbidden Worlds Film Festival, and ICO’s Screening Days. 

Lorena Pino

Co-Curator (El Cine Soy Yo and La Rumbera: Ninón Sevilla)

With a background in journalism and the arts with considerable experience in TV, cinema, PR and social media, Lorena is passionate about people and cinema. Since relocating to the UK, Lorena has volunteered for FilmBath Festival as a programmer and set up her own cinema series ‘Getting Together Through Film’ at Trowbridge Town Hall. She completed an MA in Curating at University of the West of England in 2023-24, and as part of her placement at Watershed, put on Mujer with a Movie Camera, a season of films by female directors from Latin America.

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Paul Farrell

Co-Curator (At Midnight I’ll Take your Soul)

Paul Farrell is a film curator and writer based in Manchester, UK. Working across the country, Paul programmes community screenings and workshops for artists' co-operative Artefact Projects and arts newsletter Rat Depot, while also curating bespoke film events independently for venues such as Mockingbird Cinema, Voce Books, and Cultplex. His writing on film has been featured on MUBI Notebook, Hyperallergic, and Vague Visages. Paul's work frequently focuses on the nature of legibility within film texts and how this is intermingled with popular standards of quality, leading to a preoccupation with cult, underground, and artists' films.

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Siavash Minoukadeh 

Co-Curator (Queer Cinema from the Eastern Bloc)

Siavash is a London based curator and programmer based. They work across visual art and film with a particular focus on queer pleasure and histories in their practice. He has presented work at organisations including the British Film Institute, Barbican Centre, MayDay Rooms and LUX whilst his writing has been published by Art Monthly, Devonshire Collective and Open City Documentary Festival. They are currently Head of Marketing at Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Festival and holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art.

Stephen Morgan

Co-Curator (Jeff Barnaby: The Art of Forgetfulness)

Stephen is a Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Bristol, and co-programmer of the London Australian Film Society and Festival. His research focuses on the cinemas of Britain and its former settler colonies, with a particular specialism in Australian cinema and Indigenous cinema/s in settler national contexts. He has contributed to home entertainment releases by the British Film Institute and Powerhouse’s Indicator series and has published several articles and review essays. His book, Ealing Abroad: Post-War British Cinema, Settler Colonialism and Ealing Studios in Australia will be published by BFI/Bloomsbury in 2025.

Selina Robertson 

Co-Curator (The Student Nurses)

Selina Robertson is a film researcher, programmer and curator. She has worked in cultural film exhibition for over 20 years at the BFI, The Film Council and the Independent Cinema Office. From 2003-2005 she was a film programmer at BFI Flare (formerly the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival). In 2007, she co-founded with Sarah Wood Club des Femmes, a queer feminist curating collective. In 2023 she completed a practice research PhD at Birkbeck, University of London excavating cultural feminist exhibition film histories in 1980s London.

Isabel Moir 

Co-Curator (The Student Nurses)

Isabel Moir is currently a programmer at BFI London Film Festival. Prior to the BFI, Isabel worked as a programmer at the Independent Cinema Office where she worked with a range of independent cinemas across the UK as well as Borderlines Film Festival. Isabel also previously worked at the Barbican Centre and has contributed to various cinema programmes across London. She has also worked on a range of film festivals in various roles including BFI London Film Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, BFI Future Film Festival and Overnight Film Festival.

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