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Cultural Impact Seminars

Beyond the box office

Cultural Impact

Presentations of the Stories we tell ourselves study took place in each of the nations and were used as a platform to demonstrate that film is central to people's everyday lives and plays an important role in our national culture.

Other key themes to emerge during these discussions were:

  • Increasing access to and encouraging debate on film heritage is central to a vibrant film culture;
  • The digital age is providing audiences with new ways to access and interact with film.

Professor Ian Christie (Birkbeck) and Bertrand Moullier (NARVAL) led each of the seminars joined by local commentators.

Belfast - June 2010

In conjunction with our partner Northern Ireland Screen, local commentators Mike Catto and Brian Henry Martin (Doubleband Films and Belfast Film Festival) were joined by the UK Film Council's David Steele and John Newbigin on the stage. Films depicting The Troubles like The Crying Game and In the Name of the Father, which drew international attention to Northern Ireland and its blossoming film industry were two of many case studies discussed.

Belfast goes Beyond the Box Office pictures.
Executive summary edit of the seminar

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Edinburgh - June 2010

In conjunction with our partner Scottish Screen (now Creative Scotland), broadcaster Mark Cousins, producer Gillian Berrie (Sigma Films) and Jonathan Murray (Edinburgh College of Art) joined the panel. The seminar took place to a full house during Edinburgh International Film Festival where Trainspotting and Movern Callar were two of the numerous case studies discussed.

View Edinburgh goes Beyond the Box Office pictures.

Cardiff - July 2010

In conjunction with our partner Film Agency for Wales, local commentators Steve Blandford (Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Studies) and Elan Closs (Aberystwyth University) were joined by the UK Film Council's David Steele and John Newbigin on the stage.

View Cardiff goes Beyond the Box Office pictures.

Below are the downloadable presentations given at the Cultural Impact seminar held on 27 November 2009.