Are you planning on screening archive film to your audiences? Are you thinking of adding repertory films to your offering?
Exhibiting the UK’s Hidden Moving Image Archives BFI FAN WEBINAR (8th September 2025)
As the launch event for the newly published BFI FAN resource ‘Exhibiting the UK’s Hidden Moving Image Archives’, Andy Robson (BFI FAN Screen Heritage Champion) was joined by Michael Pattison (Alchemy Film & Arts) and Dr Ed Webb-Ingall (London Community Video Archive).
They discussed the new resource and Michael and Ed gave us invaluable insights into the process of developing archives in the community. Since the formation of the BFI Film Audience Network, FAN Members have demonstrated a new confidence in working with collections to deliver ambitious screenings and events across the four nations to a wide range of audiences. The aim of Hidden Archives is to give FAN members inspiration and practical guidance in developing audiences for screen heritage, through working with the many rich and fascinating archives that exist across the UK, outside the National and Regional Film Archives.
The resource was created through research by Andy Robson, the BFI FAN Champion, in partnership with Film Hub NI, using funds from the National Lottery – we hope it will prove a useful tool and guide for exhibitors and archives alike.
You can find more information and download the resource here.
The new BFI FAN Screen Heritage Resource Guide has been developed by Andy Robson, FAN Screen Heritage Champion, and Film Hub NI to assist exhibitors in screening film archive and repertory film.
The guide features:
- Best practice programming guides for archive screenings
- Tips and expertise from leading programmers
- Case studies illustrating multiple audience approaches
- Up-to-date contact details for the thirteen National and Regional Film Archives and wider archive sector organisations
- A list of key distributors for classic and repertory programme strands
- Key film festivals and industry events in the UK related to re-releases, restorations and screening archival moving image collections
- An assemble of FAN Members with a strong commitment to screen heritage exhibition
- A chronicle of Britain on Film collections on the BFI Player.