Senior Lecturer in Film Studies Research Interests: Documentary and non-fiction media; media and activism; witnessing and testimony; community and participatory media; gender, race, sexuality, and disability in the media.
Israeli high-tech entrepreneur Mati Kochavi has set up an Instagram account for the real life figure of Eva Heymann, a 13-year-old Hungarian girl. The account interprets the diary she started in 1944, using selfies,…
In honour of International Migrants Day, activists engaged in a bit of culture jamming, posting instructions on how to stop a deportation where Tube adverts market products to those on their way to Heathrow. This is…
Monica Hesse of The Washington Post writes about the new congressperson’s Instgram strategies as tactics for coalition building. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Instragram can be found here.
Emma Parker, a PhD candidate a Leeds discusses the function of graphic stories sharing the real-life accounts of refugees and migrants. She writes, ‘By documenting real journeys, representing traumatic memories and…
Alex King reflects on the virtual reality projects taken on by human rights filmmakers and activists, addressing the ways they bring new forms of visibility to a range of crises. How might these technologies combat…
Check out So Mayer‘s Sight & Sound essay about film scholar and practitioner Alisa Lebow‘s interactive project, Filming Revolution, which chronicles and reflects on the practices of filmmakers and media engagement…
Meet Sailor J whose makeup tutorials are lessons in feminist critique. The Daily Beast offers a profile of this prolific young YouTube star. Much attention has been given to her T & P Makeup look video, about which…
Mark Eby, a co-director and facilitator of the film Aliko & Ambai (Mark Eby & Diane Anton) describes the community benefit in stages of preproduction and development. The film, scripted by two PNG screenwriters…
The Fledgling Fund is a private organisation that explores the ways films can be used to educate, engage, and mobilise. Their website is very informative and offers resources and case studies for consideration.
In this item from Media Impact Funders, Jessica Clark offers considerations for the ways film can be used for impact. As she notes, these rarely involve the film alone but a range of practices, collaborations, and…