Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
For this BFI Film Academy Lab we were delighted to welcome Simon McCallum, BFI Archive Projects Curator, to share his work on archive films such as Paul Wright's Arcadia and programming archive seasons & events at BFI Southbank.
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BFI Film Academy Labs are online events for 16-25 year olds and others to gain industry insight and get professional advice and support to develop their own film programming and filmmaking practices. Programmed by the Young Film Programmers’ Network (South East) they are delivered as practical masterclasses, workshops and networking sessions.
As Archive Projects Curator for the BFI, Simon works on special events and broadcast collaborations which help bring the riches of the BFI National Archive to a wider audience. He has programmed BFI Southbank events and seasons including To the Ends of the Earth: Exploration & Endurance on Film (Jan 2022) and Gross Indecency: Queer Lives Before & After the ’67 Act (Jul-Aug 2017). He was Archive Consultant on Queerama (Daisy Asquith, 2017) and Arcadia (Paul Wright, 2018) and is Executive Producer of a forthcoming Universal Pictures feature documentary. He is currently working on the StoryTrails project, using archive in immersive AR & VR experiences touring the UK as part of UNBOXED 2022.
In this session, Simon was interviewed by Balik Arts' Alessia Mavakala, one of our new Young Film Programmer (YFP) presenters.
Recorded on Thursday 24 February.
#BFIFilmAcademy #ArchiveFilm
For this BFI Film Academy Lab we were delighted to welcome Simon McCallum, BFI Archive Projects Curator, to share his work on archive films such as Paul Wright's Arcadia and programming archive seasons & events at BFI Southbank.
Sign up to our monthly newsletter to be the first to hear about new opportunities for young film programmers in the South East: eepurl.com/grc7Gr
Subscribe to ICO YouTube here: bit.ly/ICOSubscribe
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BFI Film Academy Labs are online events for 16-25 year olds and others to gain industry insight and get professional advice and support to develop their own film programming and filmmaking practices. Programmed by the Young Film Programmers’ Network (South East) they are delivered as practical masterclasses, workshops and networking sessions.
As Archive Projects Curator for the BFI, Simon works on special events and broadcast collaborations which help bring the riches of the BFI National Archive to a wider audience. He has programmed BFI Southbank events and seasons including To the Ends of the Earth: Exploration & Endurance on Film (Jan 2022) and Gross Indecency: Queer Lives Before & After the ’67 Act (Jul-Aug 2017). He was Archive Consultant on Queerama (Daisy Asquith, 2017) and Arcadia (Paul Wright, 2018) and is Executive Producer of a forthcoming Universal Pictures feature documentary. He is currently working on the StoryTrails project, using archive in immersive AR & VR experiences touring the UK as part of UNBOXED 2022.
In this session, Simon was interviewed by Balik Arts' Alessia Mavakala, one of our new Young Film Programmer (YFP) presenters.
Recorded on Thursday 24 February.
#BFIFilmAcademy #ArchiveFilm
