[cma-l] Call for papers: Community Filmmaking and Cultural Diversity: Practice, Innovation and Policy

[Tamar Millen]

Community Filmmaking and Cultural Diversity: Practice, Innovation and Policy

Event Date: 22/01/2014
Event Location: BFI Southbank, London

The conference is organised as part of an AHRC funded research project 
investigating community filmmaking in the UK with particular emphasis on 
its connection with cultural diversity. The research project (running 
from February 2012 till January 2013) aims to contribute to the debate 
around community filmmaking and cultural diversity by exploring how 
cultural diversity intersects with community filmmaking and the results 
of this intersection in terms of representations and identities as well 
as practices and innovation. The project will outline, through a 
complexity perspective, a broader framework that considers the 
intersection between community film making and cultural diversity 
through the five following dimensions: representation and identity, the 
role of film as media, the tensions in filming practices between arts 
and commerce, existing knowledge and innovation dynamics and the roles 
of intermediaries, policy and place. We aim to map the nature of the 
networks in which community filmmakers are embedded and the role of 
local and national institutional settings, policy and place.

Call for contributions

The conference will be the conclusion of the one-year AHRC funded 
Connected Communities research project and we will present some of the 
outcomes of our research. We welcome this opportunity to invite other 
experts and practitioners in this field to contribute.

As part of the final conference of this project, we are seeking papers 
and presentations exploring the relationship between community 
filmmaking, cultural diversity and innovation. The call is open to 
academics, film-makers and policy makers.

Suggested topics might include but are not limited to:

     Amateur film, community film and filmmaking

     Cultural identity, diversity and filmmaking

     Community filmmaking as social expression

     Communities of practice and networks in community filmmaking

     Knowledge and innovation dynamic and community filmmaking

     Impact of policy and place on community filmmakers practice

     Role of cultural intermediaries in filmmaking


http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/Community-Filmmaking-.aspx
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Tamar Millen
Arts Coordinator
Community Media Association
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield
S1 2BX
0114 2795219

www.arts.commedia.org.uk