The Cinema Rediscovered 2024 team
Cinema Rediscovered is a collaborative endeavour involving a whole range of partners and creatives who all share a passion for cinema.
The festival is produced by a dedicated team with the support of Watershed in collaboration with a curatorial group, guest curators, a dedicated PR person, freelancers and of course our many partners, contributors and volunteers without whom the festival would not be what it is.
Each year we welcome new collaborators – if you would like to pitch an idea for a season, event or just want to let us know about an upcoming restoration or film discovery, please get in touch.
Email us: cinema.rediscovered@watershed.co.uk
Mark Cosgrove
Founder & Co-curator
Inspired by Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato, Mark founded Cinema Rediscovered in 2016 and works collaboratively with the curatorial group to develop and present the festival programme. He has curated various strands including Manipulating The Message in 2017 and 1971: The Year Hollywood Went Independent in 2021 which toured to over 20 cinemas across the UK and Ireland.
Mark is passionate about film and music and has dedicated his professional career to independent cultural cinema exhibition starting out in Plymouth Art Centre some 30 years ago followed by Cornerhouse (now Home) in Manchester. He joined Watershed in 1994 where he has curated a whole range of seasons and touring programmes ranging from New Portuguese Cinemas to a retrospective of filmmaker Claire Denis. He was Creative Director at Encounters Festival for over 10 years, went on to co-curate Filmic (2012 – 2022), became Director of Film Culture at University of West of England and is currently an advisor on Film Hub South West and UK wide BFI FAN programming initiatives.
Stay in touch with him on Twitter @msc45.
Maddy Probst
Festival Producer
Maddy helped set up Cinema Rediscovered in 2016 and has been Festival Producer ever since, overseeing the festival development and delivery from partnerships and sponsorships to guest liaison and the touring programme.
She is a producer of film events, talent and people with extensive experience of advocating for the cinema sector. She joined Watershed 15 years ago where she is now Head of Film overseeing various projects including the cinema, the Film Hub South West as part of BFI Film Audience Network as well as a portfolio of talent development activity such as BFI Film Academy. She has directed several international Europa Cinemas Audience Development Innovation Labs including Bologna as part of Il Cinema Ritrovato, was Vice-President of Europa Cinemas (2014 – 2022) Follow her on Twitter @cineredis & @MaddyProbst and talk to her about partnerships, sponsorships and submitting pitches.
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Lorena Pino
Project Coordinator and Co-curator
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. For almost a decade, she was a Lecturer at the Audiovisual Department in the Universidad Central de Venezuela and responsible for the Publicity and Marketing of Warner Bros Pictures in Venezuela working at Cinematográfica Blancica. 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.
Lorena has been involved in Cinema Rediscovered since its beginning as a freelance marketeer and photographer for the festival and is currently working with us as a freelance Project Coordinator.
Follow Lorena on Twitter @lorenapinom
Nathan Hardie
Comms & Outreach Coordinator
Nathan is a freelance writer, host, Rising Arts Agency member, and marketer promoting his love of films to anyone who will listen.
Since beginning his blog, HardieWrites, Nathan’s articles have been published on Watershed, BFI Film Academy South West, Freestyle Bristol, and more. Expanding to hosting Q&As and broadcasting on BCfm Radio earned him a place on the 2023 editions of the BFI LFF Critics Mentorship Programme and Film Hub South West’s Beyond Boundaries 360.
These experiences have led Nathan to collaborate with We Are Parable as a Regional Cultural Curator, Bristol Beacon as a Community Ambassador, and now Cinema Rediscovered as Comms & Outreach Coordinator.
Pam Beddard
Festival PR
Pam Beddard is a Bristol-based publicist specialising in promoting film and TV. She is the long-time publicist of the city’s Afrika Eye, Cary Grant Comes Home and Slapstick screen festivals and recently handled regional campaigns for ENYS MEN, the latest film by the BAFTA-winning Mark Jenkin and Nepal’s first Oscar nominee LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM. Earlier credits include PR work for FilmBath, FilmHub SW, Calling The Shots, Film Africa, Encounters, the F-Rating, Wildscreen plus a wide range of TV documentaries and she is a previous head of external communications at Watershed.
Jonathan Bygraves
Film Critics Workshop Leader and Co-curator
Jonathan Bygraves is a film historian, repertory programmer and video essayist based in Bristol, UK. His work has screened theatrically nationwide and as part of festival programmes, as well as appearing on numerous boutique home video releases. He has led the Cinema Rediscovered Film Critics’ Workshop for the past two editions of the festival. Follow @iambags on Twitter.
Co-curators and collaborators
Tara Judah
Researcher and Writer
Tara is a postgraduate researcher at UWE, researching the role of independent cinema in the age of on-demand culture and is also an editor at Senses of Cinema.
James Harrison
Co-Curator
Co-Director/Co-Curator of the award-winning South West Silents and Film Noir UK, James has been involved in Cinema Rediscovered since its inception.
A film graduate from the University of the West of England (UWE), James Harrison works at BBC Bristol where he has been involved in numerous film and archive related documentary productions. A graduate of the Giornate del Cinema Muto Collegium (Pordenone Silent Film Festival) in 2005, James has written many articles about classic cinema and has been heavily involved with Bristol Silents and Slapstick Festival.
Rosie Taylor
Co-Curator
Rosie is a Curator of Fiction Film at the BFI National Archive and a PhD student at the University of Bristol, researching the History and Culture of 9.5mm Private Film Collecting in Britain. She is a passionate film and media archivist and historian, a dedicated advocate for film and media preservation, and bringing cinema, past and present, to new audiences. Her film interests include British Cinema, Silent Westerns, film projection, film collectors, and film and projector collecting.
Rosie introduced the concept of the Projection Tours at Cinema Rediscovered and was instrumental in the development of Analogue Rules introduced in 2019.
Dr Peter Walsh
Co-Curator
Peter has worked regularly with some of the region's most successful film festivals to present silent cinema, and was part of the team that helped establish Cinema Rediscovered in 2016 and introduced the popular Cinema Walk. Peter is active as a freelance researcher and editor, specializing on cinema's earliest years, as well as being Subtitles Co-ordinator for MUBI's international programming. In 2015, he co-founded South West Silents, to help present new restorations of silent films from across the world, back on the big screen with new contexts and live music.
Karen Alexander
Co-Curator
Karen Alexander is an independent film and moving image curator, writer and researcher. She has worked with and for the BFI, the Royal College of Art and a consultant for a diverse range of cinemas, galleries and arts organisations. Karen works across media, arts and culture, programming and running courses on black British representation, independent cinema, national identity and collective memory. Recent projects include Black Star (BFI 2016), Black Atlantic Cinema Club (Autograph Watershed 2016) Philomela’s Chorus (2017) and Dream Time: We All have Stories for Nuit Blanche (Toronto 2018).
Karen has recently joined the board of Longplayer and is currently a tutor on the Fine Art BA at Central St Martins, University of the Arts, London. She has been guest curator and consultant at Cinema Rediscovered since its inception.
Andy Willis
Co-Curator
Andy Willis is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator: Film at HOME in Manchester, where he is part of the programming team for the annual Viva: Spanish and Latin American Film Festival. He has curated various touring seasons including Visible Secrets: Hong Kong’s Women Filmmakers (with Sarah Perks, 2009/10), CRIME: Hong Kong Style (2016) and States of Danger and Deceit: e European Political Thriller in the 1970s (2017/18). In 2019 he was co-curator, with Rachel Hayward, of HOME’s innovative yearlong initiative, Celebrating Women in Global Cinema. In 2023 he curated Look Who's Back: The Hollywood Renaissance and the Blacklist for Cinema Rediscovered which subsequently went on to tour across the UK.
Graeme Hogg
Co-Curator
Graeme is the founder of the Cube Cinema in Bristol and has a studio practice that involves working with analogue film – shooting, developing, printing and projecting. He looks after a growing collection of cinema apparatus and odd bits of film, and is currently restoring a 1930s contact printer and an optical printer (both machines rarely seen by the public). His MRes (UWE) is looking at analogue film artefacts in digital archives, the use of film as a technology of memory and the history and uses of found footage.
Graeme was instrumental in the development of Cinema Rediscovered's Analogue Rules, introduced in 2019 and continues to work with us on the development of our Film on Film programme.
David Taylor
Co-Curator
David Taylor (also known as 'Pip') runs 20th Century Flicks Video Shop and has bizarrely spent almost all his working life in the film rental industry. His dream is to retire running the last video shop in the world and being given an award of some kind. A graduate in Film and Literature from the University of Warwick, he was tutored by Victor Perkins, Charlotte Brunsdon, Ed Gallafent and Jose Arroyo and as a result, he remains addicted to the films of Nicholas Ray, Powell & Pressburger, William Friedkin and Pedro Almodóvar to this day. Alongside Bags he has helped program a long-running series of their favourite films at The Cube cinema, hosted a nefarious film quiz at The Christmas Steps pub and directed a no-budget remake of his favourite film Point Break.
He has been involved with Cinema Rediscovered since its beginning as a co-host of the festival and closing night quiz and a guest contributor.
Follow @20thCFlicks on Twitter and 20thcenturyflicks on Instagram.
Other Ways of Seeing Co-curators 2024
We are proud to be collaborating with an inspiring range of co-curators to being 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.
Meet the 2024 Other Ways of Seeing festival co-curators and watch this space for more announcements about those involved in our touring programme.
Interested in getting involved in this year’s touring programme or next year’s edition?
Get in touch to find out more - email: cinema.rediscovered@watershed.co.uk
Other Ways of Seeing Film Critics Commissions 2024
We are proud to introduce our cohort of commissioned film critics, writers and video essayists, all alumni of Cinema Rediscovered’s long-standing film critics programme.
