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Film and TV's Tiago de Luca kicks off ‘Latin American Cinema: Between Theory and Practice' at the BFI Southbank
FTV Organisers of Samizdat Film Festival Celebrate its Return
Samizdat Film Festival (https://samizdatfest.co.uk/) in Scotland, co-founded and ran by Ilia Ryzhenko, misha (irek) yakovlev and PhD students at other universities will run for its third year from 1st until 5th October in Glasgow and, for the first time ever, in Edinburgh on 19th October.
Named after the practice of clandestine dissemination of censored and forbidden texts in Communist states, Samizdat Film Festival is an audience-focused film festival based in Glasgow. The festival takes place annually at CCA Glasgow, online, on the streaming platform Klassiki, and for the first time this October in Edinburgh. With a diverse programme of meticulously curated retrospectives and new films, as well as special events (online panel discussions, silent films with a score performed live, showcases of short films). Samizdat is Scotland’s first festival of cinema from Eastern/Central Europe, Central, North and North-Easy Asia, and the Caucasus.
Professor Helen Wheatley Launches New Book at Coventry Cathedral
Television/Death intertwines the study of death, dying and bereavement on television with discussion of the ways that television (and the TV archive) provides access to the dead. Helen introduced the book at this event and invited to collaborators to respond to the work, prior to a drink reception. The event was held Coventry Cathedral as this special place was one of the key locations for the events discussed in the final section of the book.
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