3 April 2017 A one-day workshop for colleagues from across the university sector working in videographic film, television and screen studies. With keynote talks by Catherine Grant and Kevin B….Read More >
‘It’s a Fake!’ Early and Late Incredulous Viewers, Trick Effects, and CGI – Dr. Lisa Bode
Public lecture by Dr. Lisa Bode (University of Queensland) 7 March 2017 In Christopher Keneally’s documentary about the digitization of the film industry, Side by Side (2012), Martin Scorsese and…Read More >
Where to Sit at the Dinner Table?
Happy Hour Discussion with Writer and Director Pedro Neves Marques 7 June 2016 University of Reading Part of the AHRC-FAPESP funded project ‘Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema: Exploring…Read More >
An evening with award-winning Chinese-British filmmaker and novelist Xiaolu Guo
11 May 2016 Minghella Studios Cinema, University of Reading Organised by CFAC, the event featured a screening of Xiaolu Guo’s film UFO in Her Eyes (2011) and a post-screening Q&A…Read More >
IntermIdia Project Workshop
13 April 2017 – Minghella Studios, University of Reading Part of the AHRC-FAPESP funded project ‘Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema: Exploring Intermediality as a Historiographic Method’ Featuring a…Read More >
Visit of Japanese film director Yuki Tanada
10 Febrary 2016 – Bulmershe Theatre, Minghella Studios Yuki Tanada visited CFAC to discuss her film The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (2012), which screened as part of the…Read More >
Liberation Struggles, The ‘Falling of the Empire’, and the Birth (through images) of the African Nations
International Conference 27 January 2016 Minghella Studios, University of Reading, 28 January 2016 – King’s College, London CONVENOR CFAC / FCT Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Maria do Carmo Piçarra, in cooperation…Read More >
Onwards and Outwards Season Presents: The Reluctant Revolutionary (dir. Sean McAllister, 2012)
5 November 2015 – Reading Film Theatre, Palmer Building, University of Reading Producer, Elhum Shakerifar was present for a Q&A about the documentary and her work as a creative producer….Read More >
Public Lecture by Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, University of Liverpool
28 October 2015 – Bulmershe Theatre, University of Reading ‘Diamonds of the Night: Childhood Loneliness in World Cinema’ Profesor Hemelryk Donald’s will discuss the sounds of a child’s loneliness in…Read More >
Launch of the IntermIdia Project
30 September 2015 – Cinema, Minghella Studios, University of Reading AHRC-FAPESP funded project ‘Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema: Exploring Intermediality as a Historiographic Method’ Programme: 17:30 – Introduction…Read More >