Screen East aims to promote the East of England as a centre of excellence for moving image archive conservation and training for the UK. We also aim to improve access to the region’s moving image archive and heritage.
To assist us in our aims we support the East Anglian Film Archive in Norwich. To find out more download our Archives Strategy and our paper on Moving Image Archives in the East of England.
East Anglian Film ArchiveThe East Anglian Film Archive is the moving image archive for the English counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
The Archive is owned and operated by the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UEA), as a not for profit research and public access resource. The Archive and UEA’s School of Film and Television Studies jointly teach the UK’s only MA course in Film and Television Archiving, an internationally respected course established in 1990.
www.eafa.org.uk
Digital Heritage Education
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Screen East is seeking the views of teachers, youth leaders and young people themselves about the best ways of enabling young people to see and work with film heritage in a variety of educational settings.
The Digital Heritage Project aims to increase access for young people and audiences across East Anglia to experience and enjoy a wider range of previously unseen film heritage about the region in which they live. Using a wide variety of digitised amateur and professional film and TV material held in Archives in the region and especially films and TV news and documentary material from the East Anglian Film Archive in Norwich, from the 1900s to the present time.
The Digital Heritage project is collaboration between Screen East, the University of East Anglia, the East Anglian Film Archive and Pole Image, the Screen Agency for Upper Normandy who run their own archive of films. Through the project which is supported by Interreg IVA European funding we will be able to make available archive films from both France and the East of England as well as those related to life, history and people of the two regions.
This may be of interest therefore to French Language teachers and pupils as well as those involved in History, Media Literacy, Art or English subjects areas and other areas of the curriculum and with different Key Stage groups.
Please click the online form located on the right hand side at the top of this page to complete the questionnaire.