Migrant and Diasporic Cinema - News
Migration in Spanish Film: The Making of Aguaviva
Professor Isabel Santaolalla, a member of our Research Network, will be part of a round table discussion with Catalan filmmaker Ariadna Pujol. This event is scheduled for 30 May 2008 at 6pm and is part of the UCL Film Studies Graduate Programme. The discussion will be preceded by a film screening of Aguaviva at 4pm. Venue: Pearson Building Lecture Theatre, UCL , Gower Street, London WC1E
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 13 Apr 2008 •
Panel on Turkish German cinema at the SCMS Conference in Philadelphia
Panel at the SCMS Conference in Philadelphia, March 2008.
Daniela Berghahn, leader of the Migrant and Diasporic Cinema Network, convened a panel entitled 'Turkish German Dialogues on Screen' at this year's SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference) in Philadelphia. The panel brought together several speakers who had already contributed to the first Conference organised by the Network in Oxford in 2006 and who all share a particular interest in New Turkish German Cinema and in current trends in Turkish film culture.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 13 Mar 2008 •
Network participant Carrie Tarr curated ‘Beur is beautiful’ film season in New York
In November 2007, Carrie Tarr, an internationally leading scholar on Maghrebi-French filmmaking, curated a retrospective entitled 'BEUR IS BEAUTIFUL: MAGHREBI-FRENCH FILMMAKING' in New York. The film programme, which will go on tour, showcases landmark films such as Tea in the Harem, Cheb, Memories of Immigration as well as more recent releases such as Where the Fig Trees Grow or Voisins, Voisins.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 13 Mar 2008 •
AHRC showcases Migrant and Diasporic Cinema Project
In the latest issue (Autumn 2007, no. 7) of Podium the AHRC devotes a two-page case study to our Research Network, reporting about the conference on 'The Industrial Context' organised by our Research Network in January 2007. If you download a pdf file of Podium, issue 7, you will find the report on pp. 10-11.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 14 Jan 2008 •
Collaboration with AHRC Network on ‘Creolizing Europe’
Our Research Network will be contributing to a major international conference in Manchester, organised by another Research Network funded by the AHRC under the Diasporas, Migration & Identities Programme, Creolizing Europe. We will be presenting our interim findings on a panel devoted exclusively to Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe on Saturday, 8 September. For more details about our panel and the conference, held between 6 - 8 September at Manchester University, see the website Creolizing Europe Conference.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 23 Aug 2007 •
Podcasts from the January 2007 Conference
At our recent conference The Industrial Context of Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe internationally acclaimed filmmakers, producers and other leading media practitioners discussed their views on what it means to make, produce and distribute the kind of films which we are investigating in the context of this research project. You now have the opportunity to listen to six podcasts (each approx. 45 mins.) on this website.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 24 Mar 2007 •
A detailed report about our second conference is now available
Following some snapshots and first impressions of our recent conference The Industrial Context of Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe we are delighted to provide a detailed account of this conference. The report, written by Sarita Malik, will also be published in a double issue of the Journal of Media Practice in autumn 2007 (8: 2/3).
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 12 Feb 2007 •
First impressions from our second conference
The second conference organised by our Research Network examined The Industrial Context of Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe. The event provided an excellent platform for an exchange of ideas and perspectives between academia and the film industry. Seven distinguished speakers, including diversity adviser Parminder Vir, OBE, filmmakers John Akomfrah and Abdelkrim Bahloul and German film producer Ralph Schwingel attracted an international audience. Please visit the Photo Gallery for some first impressions.
We should like to thank everyone who contributed to the conference making it such a stimulating and enjoyable experience.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 17 Jan 2007 •