Amateur films and ‘Main Street Movies’
Book launch: Main Street Movies: The History of Local Film in the United States, by Martin L. Johnson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018) ‘A book on itinerant filmmakers who made local motion pictures in the United States between 1910 and 1975. Several chapters discuss amateur film production.’
Registration open: British Women Amateur Filmmakers & Colour Films, BAFTSS Symposium
Registration is now open for the ‘British Women Amateur Filmmakers & Colour Films, BAFTSS Symposium’. To book, please use the link here
CFP Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, 2018
Home Movie Day, Jerusalem
Home Movie Day, Jerusalem, held by the Jerusalem Cinematheque – Israel Film Archive together with the DVD library ‘The Third Ear’, on 19 December 2017.
The 2017 Delta Film Award
‘Named in honour of the group of amateur film-makers whose efforts enlivened many a 1960s science fiction convention, the Delta Film Awards recognise significant achievement by low-budget directors.’ Registration forms for the 2018 edition available at Independent & Amateur Films.
Re-framing home movies
14 December 2017, ‘Re-framing home movies’ one-day event (Unione Culturale Franco Antonicelli, Torino). It will include:
- Presentation of the Re-framing home movies project and screening of the final works by artists Alberto Diana, Sara Fgaier and Giulia Savorani
- Presentation of the first results of the survey commissioned by ICAR (Istituto Centrale per gli Archivi / Italian Central Institute for Archives) on archives collecting and safeguarding the amateur film heritage in Italy, by ICAR director Stefano Vitali and project manager Karianne Fiorini
- Presentation of the activities of the Center for Home Movies, the Home Movie Day, and the ongoing survey on home movies collections in American film archives, by Dwight Swanson
- Screening of home movies in their original format, with commentaries by the amateur filmmakers and their families
- Presentation of the private films of Shirley Clarke, recently restored and published on Blu-Ray by Milestone Films, and distributed in Italy by Reading Bloom
Ghanaian amateur vs. professional filmmaking
See ‘African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History’ by Carmela Garritano (Ohio University Press, 2013) and ‘African Film: Looking Back and Looking Forward’, ed. Foluke Ogunleye (Cambridge Scholars, 2014)