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 including How to be Sherlock Holmes, Epic: A Cast of Thousands! and A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss as well as co-productions with the British Film Institute and the British Board of Film Classification for the BBC.

James has written many articles about classic cinema, he was a graduate of the Giornate del Cinema Muto Collegium (Pordenone Silent Film Festival) in 2005 and has been heavily involved with Bristol Silents, Slapstick Festival and is now Co-Director/ Co-Curator of South West Silents.

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