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  • 2022, Lucy Bolton wrote, curated and narrated an Inside Cinema Short on Marilyn Monroe for BBC iPlayer 
  • Premiere of The Pathogen of War, an interactive installation by Dr. Yasmin Fedda at Kunsthall Charlottenburg, Denmark in CPH:DOX 2024. 
  • Focus on Palestine: A series of events- screenings, talks and exhibitions in Queen Mary in collaboration with colleagues across QMUL in 2024-2025. An example event here. 
  • Screening of How we Work (Yasmin Fedda & 39 co-directors) and Matar (screenwriter Ayman Alhussein), followed with panel discussion with Lift the Ban and Refugee Council, 2024.  
  • Screening of feature documentary Ayouni (Dr. Yasmin Fedda) in Damascus, Syria with Madaniyah, a civil society organisation 
  • Janet Harbord interviewed for the podcast 21 and Sensory about autism and cinema 
  • Janet Harbord interviewed for the Italian Film Festival dedicated to archive film work, Archvio Aperto, in conjunction with the film’s screening at the festival. 
  • Janet Harbord co-host of 50 episodes of the podcast Autism through Cinema: neurodivergent and queer thinkers and their guests discuss a film per episode. 
  • Janet Harbord UK premiere of BAFTA nominated ‘Autism Plays Itself’ at the London Short Film Festival, January 2025.  
  • Janet Harbord ‘Autism Plays Itself’ screened at BFI in the STIMS neurodiversity programme, April 2025.  
  • Janet Harbord’s  Autism Plays Itself (2023) screened in 2024 at Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival,  Kracauer Short film festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, Archvio Aperto Bologna Film Festival, Folkstone Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, AFO International festival of Science Films Czech Republic, InScience Film festival Nijmegen, Netherlands, ReFrame Film Festival, Montreal.  
  • Premiere of My Want of You Partakes of Me by Dr Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, Tate Modern, 2023  
  • My Want of You Partakes of Me by Dr Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, has festival premiere at CPH:DOX, Denmark, 2024, and screens at festivals in Spain, Portugal, Colombia, Taiwan, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Lithuania, Thailand, USA, as well as exhibitions at museums in Austria, Finland, Greece, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain.  
  • Constant by Dr Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner has festival premiere at Rotterdam International Film Festival 2022 and screens at over 30 festivals in Belgium, USA, Denmark, Latvia, Thailand, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Portugal, South Korea, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Italy. 
  • Constant by Dr Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner is exhibited at Seoul Media City Biennale, South Korea 2023 and Taiwan Video Art Exhibition, Taipei, 2023 
  • A Demonstration by Dr Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner premieres at Berlinale Shorts, Germany, 2020  
  • Nikolaus Perneczky public talk “You Hide Me, You Can’t Hide Me” (with Nii Kwate Owoo, Arike Oke, and Judith Opoku-Boateng). Post-screening panel moderation as part of Archival Assembly #3: Resounding Archives, Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin, 21 September 2024. 
  • Nikolaus Perneczky co-producer of podcast, “Nicholás Guillén Landrián” (with Jessica Gordon-Burroughs). Episode 6 of The Pan African Cinema Podcast, produced by June Givanni, Feven Haile, Damilola Lemomu, Phoebe Beckett Chingono, and Benjin Pollock for the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (September 2024)
  • Nikolaus Perneczky public talk “African Cinema Restorations” (with Jonathan Ali and Keith Shiri). Post-screening panel conversation as part of African Odysseys and Tigritudes: A Pan-African Film Cycle, BFI, 15 June 2024. 
  • Nikolaus Perneczky public talk “Pan African Film Archive” (with June Givanni). Public talk and workshop as part of the events series This Is Film! Film Heritage in Practice, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, 20 March 2024. 
  • Nikolaus Perneczky curated programme, “A Med Hondo Study Day” (with Erica Carter). Organisation of panel conversations and film screening, King’s College London (Global Cultures Institute) and British Film Institute (BFI African Odyssees), 20 January 2024. 
  • Nikolaus Perneczky panel conversation, “Footage Lost and Found: A Conversation on Africa’s Displaced and Silenced Film Archives” (with Jihan El-Tahri, Ali Essafi, Nii Kwate Owoo, and Jean-Marie Téno). Organisation and moderation of online roundtable hosted by the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive, 7 February 2023. 
  • 2023, Guy Westwell introduced and joined in conversation with Head of CND, Kate Hudson about Oppenheimer (2023), and wrote a blog about the film for teachers. 
  • 2023, Guy Westwell curated the Greenham Women Everywhere exhibition in BLOC Cinema and Gallery, a two-week installation of exhibits produced by Greenham Women Everywhere as part of their work to archive and remember the Greenham protests, including curated screenings of Ginger and Rosa (Sally Potter, 2012) and Carry Greenham Home (Beeban Kidron, 1983). 
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