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British Film Institute Annual Review 2001_2002

Contents

04 bfi Chair’s Foreword 05 bfi Chief Executive Officer’s Foreword

06 About the

08 Developing our film and television material 16 Helping raise standards of teaching and learning 20 Getting the best value out of what we do Foreword Joan Bakewell,bfi Chair

This is my last full year in the Asian film, which runs from April to As my time as Chair comes to an position of bfi Chair. My tenure will November 2002.This nationwide end, I would like to thank my fellow be completed at the end of 2002. project does not simply cover the governors for their staunch and However, I can proudly look back familiar Bollywood tradition, but sustained support as the bfi confronts on a year in which much sound engages with the great diversity of changing times.Two governors – work has been accomplished by film-making from that part of the Barry Norman and Brian Winston – the British Film Institute. world. Staff have been busy planning departed, and two arrived – film- around 300 events in collaboration maker John Akomfrah and film I would particularly like to highlight with over 60 partner organisations educationalist Elan Closs Stephens. the excellent work being carried out and venues across the UK. All have been generous with their time by the bfi’s National Film and Television and professional expertise. Most Archive to restore the Mitchell and The bfi is also planning to celebrate particularly, I have depended on the Kenyon Collection.These 800 rolls the 50th anniversary of the National wise counsel of my Vice Chair Rick of nitrate film, which depict ordinary Film Theatre. For half a century the Senat. My thanks too, to the bfi’s Chief people in everyday situations, provide NFT has screened the very best range Executive Officer, Jon Teckman and an unparalleled social record of early of films from around the globe and his management team. I leave 20th century British life.The bfi hopes welcomed some of the world’s confident that the bfi is in safe hands. to have completed the preservation of greatest film-makers and actors this remarkable heritage by 2004/5. through its doors. Its anniversary will be officially marked in October 2002. It was also most gratifying to see that we are so highly regarded on an Looking to the future, the bfi’s international level. In October 2001 determination to build a national Film the bfi screened the 1916 silent Centre, which will bring together all version of Lady Windermere’s Fan, the Institute’s public activities in with a new score by Nick Brown, to a one landmark building remains near capacity audience at the Lincoln undiminished, despite delays that are Centre in New York.The screening outside our control. It will be a national was a great success and the Centre’s centre of excellence in film exhibition Film Society felt it was one of the and a showcase for the bfi’s film and most enjoyable events they had ever television resources, which will include attended and would very much like to an education complex, mediathéque, work with the bfi again. our library and special exhibition and display areas.The Film Centre will During this financial year the bfi enhance the bfi’s ability to bring an has also been working towards understanding and appreciation of film ImagineAsia, a celebration of South and television culture to more people.

4 British Film Institute Foreword Jon Teckman,bfi Chief Executive Officer

By the end of the year, our plans Planning, Human Resources, IT and received its world premiere at this for restructuring the organisation Estates. occasion, as the film was funded by to more effectively deliver our the Film Council, and went on to be a education and cultural remits As part of our restructuring exercise box office and critical success. were in place and to support we took the opportunity to revert to this we made a number of new the original name of our Archive based The second event worthy of note appointments. in the J Paul Getty Conservation was the attendance at a Guardian Centre in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire: Interview by in Adrian Wootton, formerly head of our the National Film and Television September, followed by a preview Exhibition department was appointed Archive (NFTVA). screening of his film,The Curse of the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Jade Scorpion.We were delighted Artistic Director, following Deputy Restructuring entailed a great deal to host this interview at the National Director Richard Collins’ departure of management time during the year, Film Theatre with the usually for a new post at the Open University. and early indications are that it will, interview-shy film legend who Adrian will assume responsibility for as was our intention, create an delighted the audience with his wit, all the cultural activities of the Institute, organisation that is more integrated, openness and insight. including Access, Education, Library, co-ordinated and will make the bfi the National Film Theatre, Festivals and its products and collections more Events like these take an enormous and the Archive. accessible and relevant to film and amount of organisation. I thank each television lovers everywhere. and every member of the bfi staff for Ian Temple, formerly Head of Capital all their work, patience, involvement, Projects, was appointed Director of There were so many highlights skill and friendship over the year. Many Development and Communications. for the bfi during the year that it is people who work at the bfi are This new department will draw difficult to single out any as more national – even international – experts together the inter-related activities deserving of tribute than others. in their field. But I applaud the efforts of Capital Projects, Development, and loyalty of every single one. Sponsorship and Corporate Two events that could possibly be Communications, all of vital singled out are, firstly, the opening importance in the new outward- night film of the Regus Film looking, vibrant organisation Festival, .This world we aim to become. premiere was attended by not only the director, Altman, but also by We appointed Jill McLaughlin to dozens of the cream of British acting the new post of Director of Planning talent, who all took to the stage at the and Resources, with responsibility Odeon Leicester Square to receive a for all our support services. Jill will be tumultuous tribute from the audience. responsible for areas such as Finance, It was particularly fitting that the film

Lady Windermere’s Fan (1916), bfi video Mother India (1957), bfi release 2002 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), bfi release 2001

Gosford Park (2001), world premiere at RLFF © Entertainment Films Annie Hall (1977), bfi release 2001

5 British Film Institute Annual Review 2001_2002 About the British Film Institute

The bfi is a unique, world-class Our vision is to be the world’s leading the world’s foremost cinematheques. mainstream cinema by releasing organisation dedicated to organisation dedicated to the arts of A roll call of the most famous names films on video, DVD and in cinemas. promoting greater understanding, film and television. in the acting and film-making And we publish well renowned books, appreciation and access to film professions have given onstage magazines, research papers and and television culture. To deliver our objectives we offer interviews there in educational resources, and offer a range of activities and services. Interview series.We are grateful to footage and rights sales of our Established in 1933, we are partly The Guardian for their continuing television and film collections. funded through grant-in-aid from the We house the bfi National Film and partnership with us. We promote life-long learning with Film Council (the strategic body Television Archive, based in the educational events and activities for overseeing UK film) and generate the J Paul Getty Conservation Centre In the autumn we mount the London learners of all ages and produce remainder of our income through our Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Here we Film Festival (in 2001,the Regus resources and training for teachers. own activities and through donations. preserve the world’s largest collection London Film Festival) and for two of film and television material weeks every November the film Through the bfi National Library we We have five corporate objectives: including over 50,000 fiction and industry spotlight and media attention provide an authoritative source of 100,000 non-fiction films dating from is turned on London with the influx of information on film and television. • To broaden access for this and 1894 and 250,000 television celebrities and industry delegates to The Library houses 44,000 reference future generations to a diversity programmes.The bfi is held in high the Festival and associated events. books, more than 5,000 periodical of film and moving image esteem world-wide for the way we titles dating back to 1889, two million material; preserve, archive, restore and make We also organise the annual London newspaper cuttings and 20,000 • To develop the UK’s film and available material from our collections Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. The unpublished scripts and a wide range moving image resources to to audiences around the UK and, Festival is the largest of its kind in of other resources in all media. achieve their full educational indeed, around the world. Europe and presents films reflecting and learning potential; lesbian and gay experience, which are We are developing ways to make • To raise standards in the We have over seven million images not generally available in UK cinemas. our vast resources and collections teaching of, and learning about, in our care including production stills, more widely available through online film, television and the moving 30,000 film posters, a collection of Our bfi London IMAX ® Cinema remote access via our website. image in both formal and designs and animation cels, and a attracts audiences of 350,000 a year informal settings; huge number of scripts, personal to see a mix of 2D, 3D and large We have active processes in place • To continuously improve the papers and publicity campaign books. format films as well as 35mm and throughout the organisation to quality of services through the 70mm titles.The cinema allows us to promote cultural diversity and effective use and enhancement We run the National Film Theatre host educational events for children disability issues, as well as to promote of staff skills and knowledge; which shows more than 1,000 titles and teachers, and is also a popular and support initiatives for ‘hard to • To manage services efficiently a year and hosts a range of events corporate hire venue. reach’ groups, thereby broadening our and economically to give best with film-makers, critics and writers audiences as much as possible. value to the UK taxpayer and to complement screenings.The NFT, In addition to showing large format other funders. 50 years old in 2002, remains one of films, we also broaden access to non-

6 British Film Institute We preserve the world’s largest collection of film and television material including over 50,000 fiction and 100,000 non-fiction films – dating from 1894.

bfi National Film and Television Archive

7 British Film Institute Annual Review 2001_2002 Developing our film and television material and increasing people’s access to it

Acquiring, preserving and This project, in collaboration showing our film and with the University of Sheffield, television material formally began in October. It will fully contextualise these actuality films and The Mitchell and their place in Britain’s early film Kenyon Collection history.When the preservation and Among the most important work research projects are complete in undertaken at the Archive during 2004, we plan tours of the films, DVD the year was the Mitchell and Kenyon releases, publications and possible project: the 800 deteriorated early broadcast projects. nitrate negatives in the Mitchell and Kenyon collection present a major Meanwhile, during 2001– 2002, preservation challenge. Our some of the first selections from Preservation section has been the films were screened at the successfully producing new Sheffield International Documentary material and viewing prints of extraor- Film Festival and at the world- dinary quality from them. In turn, our renowned Sacile (Pordenone) Silent Access Footage Sales section has Film Festival in Italy. been telecining this new material to create video copies. Other restorations Our National Film and Television Archive’s (NFTVA) highly acclaimed restoration of Gance’s epic Napoléon also received a gala screening at the closing of the Sacile Film Festival. And our restoration of was premiered at the Regus London Film Festival.

8 British Film Institute ‘The NFT is a force of knowledge for anyone who cares about film’

Archive specials at the NFT April Many Lives of Sherlock Holmes: Gavin Collinson A series of programmes showcasing May Shakespeare on : Dr Judith Buchanan rare and unknown material from our June Ancient Egypt: Stacey Abbot, Simon Brown archival collections, fully contextualised July Swinging Sixties: Jenny Hammerton by expert guest presenters. August Will Hay: Graham Rinaldi September Ultus: Judith McLaren October R101 Disaster:James Taylor November Newsreels: Luke McKernan January Bad Girls of British Cinema: Bryony Dixon February Where Does the Music Come From: Neil Brand March Spice of Variety, Pathé titles: Sarah Lee

George Washington (2000), bfi release 2001 bfi National Film and Television Archive The Mitchell and Kenyon Collection (1900)

Throne of Blood (1957), bfi release 2002 The Mitchell and Kenyon Collection (1900) The Magic Box (1951)

9 British Film Institute Annual Review 2001_2002 The bfi is now the only major UK source of cultural cinema on 16mm and DVD/video for the UK film society market.

10 British Film Institute Video and DVD releases April Lady Windermere’s Fan (Fred Paul 1916) October ( 1950)* Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey 1927) Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa 1957)* May The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini 1971)* November La Belle et la Bête (Jean Cocteau 1964)* June Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers – Bande à part (Jean-Luc Godard Volumes 1 and 2 December British Transport Films:Vol 6 – The Canterbury Tales (Pier Paolo Pasolini 1972)* Famous Friends Vol 7 – Civil Engineering 1 July The Adventures of Prince Achmed January Nosferatu (F W Murnau 1922)* (Lotte Reiniger 1926)* February Sick The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, August The Stone Tape Supermasochist (Kirby Dick 1997)* (Peter Sasdy/Nigel Kneale 1972)* The Films of Phil Mulloy (1991–2000) Delius: Song of Summer ( 1968)* March Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa 1949)* September Whistle and I’ll Come to You The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa 1958)* (Jonathan Miller 1968)* Arabian Nights (Pier Paolo Pasolini 1974)* * available in both DVD and video

Exhibitions We also ran a web-based competition, The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Stray Dog and The Hidden Fortress We produced a number of exhibitions called Fantasy Film Festival, providing Nights (not previously available), F W were released on DVD. this year. Moving Pictures, which went school and college students with a Murnau’s Nosferatu, Jean Cocteau’s International collaborations with on display at the Millennium Galleries unique chance to experience the La Belle et la bête, and Jean-Luc Criterion in the US and ARTE in France in Sheffield, explored the experience of challenges of planning a film festival. Godard’s Bande à part (video only). enabled us to release The Hidden cinema going and television watching; Fortress from a high definition master Shackleton on Screen at the bfi We created a major sub-site to Other titles released included Amores of extremely high quality, with an London IMAX Cinema, complemented support the forthcoming ImagineAsia perros, Beau travail, Code Unknown, introduction by George Lucas.And the giant screen film, Shackleton's project, with an events database of The Last Resort, Rosetta, Salo, The working closely with ZDF,we were Antarctic Adventure, and a selection of the hundreds of South Asian film Wages of Fear and Time Regained. able to acquire a new master of Lotte stills, posters and designs chosen by events around the country. Reiniger’s great classic of animation from Sales of bfi DVDs continued to The Adventures of Prince Achmed the bfi’s collection were displayed at www.rlff.com was the first bfi sub-site grow and exceed targets, and bfi for DVD and video release and sales. BAFTA. Plans also began for curating to handle mass e-mail communication video sales remained steady, a new touring exhibition, Bollywood to patrons with daily updates on the contributing significantly to our in Love featuring film posters and Regus London Film Festival including success in this area. photography. ticket availability, and late additions. It received more than one million page During the year, bfi Video Publishing Reaching a wider audience impressions. launched its Archive Television series Website with three classics: Nigel Kneale’s www.bfi.org.uk registered 6,466,665 A new catalogue of DVDs for hire The Stone Tape (1972), Ken Russell’s page impressions overall, (increasing was rolled out at the British Federation biopic Delius: Song of Summer (1968), from 380,329 in April 2001 to of Film Societies Viewing Sessions at and Jonathan Miller’s Whistle and I’ll 701,101 in March 2002). the NFT.The bfi is now the only major Come to You (1968), all of which UK source of cultural cinema on attracted much critical praise and Features on the main site include 16mm and DVD/video for the UK film very healthy sales. More than half Sight and Sound archive reviews since society market. of the NFTVA’s collection is television 1999, the Associate Tutor’s Database, material, available to individual which is an online network of tutors Video and DVD researchers. with expertise in moving image- More than 1,000,000 people saw our related education provision and videos and DVDs this year: 200,000 Following on from the phenomenally various sub-sites supporting film more than the year before. successful release of Akira retrospectives, new books and Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and video/DVD releases on Godard, Highlights of the DVD and video Yojimbo, and in tandem with the Kurosawa and Free Cinema. releases were Pier Paolo Pasolini’s NFT’s major Kurosawa retrospective, Trilogy:The Decameron, Rashomon, Throne of Blood,

Bobby, Bollywood in Love exhibition The Adventures of Prince Achmed Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), bfi release 2001 (1926), bfi Video The Magic Box (1951) Rashomon (1950), bfi Video Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), bfi release 2001 Stray Dog (1949), bfi Video If…. (1968), bfi release 2002 Nosferatu (1922), bfi Video

11 British Film Institute Annual Review 2001_2002 The Godard season was a complete retrospective, never before achieved at any cinematheque.

Festivals and seasons Monsoon Wedding, ’s The 6th annual Award rare work by the artist David Regus London Film Festival Mulholland Drive, Pixar’s Monsters, was won by In The Bedroom. Wojnarovicz and a Script Factory event In November, the Regus London Film Inc., ’s The Son’s Room, Our thanks to Regus plc, the Evening on the television series, Tipping the Festival hosted 363 screenings of 173 Peter Bogdanovich’s The Cat’s Meow, Standard, and all our other sponsors, Velvet, with Andrew Davies and Sarah features and 84 short films, together and Alfonso Cuaron’s And Your media partners and sponsors in-kind. Waters.Anna Nolan presented the with a wide range of masterclasses, Mother Too.There were also FilmFour Prize for Best Short Film to Guardian Interviews, industry screenings of ’s The Fallen London Lesbian and US film-maker and former gatherings, seminars, lectures, Idol restored by the bfi’s National Film Gay Film Festival TX prizewinner Jamie Babbit (But I’m education screenings and workshops. and Television Archive and the re- More than 200 films were screened a Cheerleader) for Stuck, the tale of worked Apocalypse Now Redux. at the biggest and best festival yet. an aged lesbian couple who question It represented the best in world Attendances were the highest ever, their whole life together when their cinema, presenting films from more An array of international stars up by over 10% on last year, car hits a child. than 40 countries, placing films attended screenings, including exceeding 23,500 and with 56 sold by some of the most renowned directors , Larry Clark, out performances, firmly establishing A selection of films from the Festival international directors alongside work Claude Miller, , the London Lesbian and Gay Film toured to a record 39 towns and cities from emerging new directors, and James Benning, Julio Medem Festival as the largest gay film event across the UK and Ireland after the offered 232 opportunities for film- and and actors such as in Europe and the UK’s third largest London dates.Again, our thanks to our makers, writers and actors to ,Anna Friel, Nicole film festival. main sponsors (OutUK.com) and to all introduce their work to both public Kidman, , Irfan Khan, our other sponsors and media partners. and professional audiences. Tara Fitzgerald, Ray Winstone and Ninety industry delegates, 112 film- Ayesha Dhaker. makers and 50 journalists visited the Theatrical releases The Festival had more than 110,000 Festival from countries as far afield as We released a variety of films admissions, a per-event average Highlights from the Festival toured to Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, theatrically over the year, ranging increase of almost 5% on last year’s seven cities after the London dates, Hong Kong, India, Switzerland and from The Navigators to Meet Me figures and including 112 sold-out including a special education event the USA, as well as the UK. in St. Louis. Alfie, Annie Hall screenings. based around Monsters, Inc. and If…. were all released thanks The opening night film was to the generosity of our sponsor, More than 600 film industry delegates The Sutherland Trophy, awarded Michael Cuesta’s debut feature L.I.E Accenture. attended this year, a 10% increase on annually by the bfi to the maker [Long Island Expressway], starring last year – as did 670 international of the most original and imaginative Brian Cox, and the closing night film and UK-based press delegates. first feature film screening at the was Bob Gosse’s Julie Johnson, Festival, was presented to Asif starring and Courtney Love. The Opening Night film was the world Kapadia, director of The Warrior. premiere of Robert Altman’s Gosford The 4th FIPRESCI International Critics’ Special events and screenings Park. Other highlights included Award went to Israeli Adrian Caetano’s included a retrospective of the films Iain Softley’s K-Pax, Mira Nair’s Bolivia. of Cheryl Dunye, the presentation of

12 British Film Institute Theatrical Releases April Mildred Pierce January Throne of Blood (plus Package1: May Alfie (sponsored by Accenture) ‘Samurai and Lowlifes’ – June As You Like It Throne of Blood, Rashomon, Top Hat Yojimbo, Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, Bande à part The Bad Sleep Well) July Two or Three Things I Know about Her February The Hidden Fortress (plus Package 2: September George Washington ‘Behind the Mask of the Samurai’ – October Annie Hall (sponsored by Accenture) The Hidden Fortress, Seven Samurai, November The Navigators Sanjuro, Ikiru, I Live in Fear, Meet Me in St. Louis Red Beard) March If…. (sponsored by Accenture)

Seasons at the the NFT season.They have been seen Film Festival, with 61 screenings screenings of Shackleton and Haunted National Film Theatre by UK audiences of more than attended by more than 1,700 people. Castle, both of which attracted more The National Film Theatre had strong 32,000; they are all being released on And among a wide range of national than 250 teachers. Later that month attendance figures throughout the bfi DVD/video; and we have touring programmes, we supported representatives from the British year, with final figures of almost successfully sold key titles to UK the six venue tour of the contemporary Antarctic Survey and the National 226,000 admissions. One of the television. artists’ films package,‘Threshold of Maritime Museum gave presentations year’s highlights was Woody Allen the Frame’, in collaboration with the before a sold-out screening of taking part in a Guardian Interview As part of the season, Tate and the Arts Council of England. Shackleton.We ran events in the with the bfi’s Geoff Andrew – his first two titles had extended first runs: school holidays, including an ever appearance before a paying Aguirre, Wrath of God and The Enigma The bfi London IMAX Cinema animation week in August where audience, who were allowed not only of Kaspar Hauser. More than 6,000 Our IMAX cinema attracted audiences children produced a film which to watch an interview but to put people came to see Aguirre and of 350,000 during the year.The benefited from a grant from Lambeth questions to him themselves. almost 4,000 Kaspar Hauser, highlight was the Royal Premiere of Education Action Zone. unprecedented figures for this strand Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure in Three seasons stand out as particularly of programming.An extensive tour of the presence of HRH the Princess Broadening access to the popular: Godard, Kurosawa and these titles (in conjunction with four Royal, which used original film bfi: diversity and disability Herzog.The Godard season was a other Herzog titles) followed the NFT material of Shackleton’s 1916 As part of the roll out of the bfi’s complete retrospective, never before run and achieved a further 3,300 expedition restored by our Archive. new cultural diversity strategy, we achieved at any cinematheque. It was attendances. developed the flagship diversity project, then staged at Cinematheque Ontario Other films shown during the year ImagineAsia, to be a major celebration in Toronto, making use of a significant In December, we screened a selection included the 3D films Encounter in of films from India, Pakistan, amount of our original work. of more than 30 films from Hollywood the Third Dimension, Cyberworld Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and British Attendances for the Godard season legend, , including a newly- and Into the Deep. Asians.A range of activities, screenings reached 23,000 and the season restored print of Hitchcock’s and publications were devised, to be The spectacular films and the spaces subsequently toured to 21 venues Notorious.And in July, we again ran launched on 25 April 2002. Sixty seven within the building itself allow us to run across the UK. our annual festival of crime film and organisations around the UK agreed to a variety of successful educational literature. Highlights included a develop activities alongside the bfi for events at the IMAX. For example, in The Kurosawa season attracted Guardian Interview with one of this pioneering festival. May we held an Inset Day for teachers audiences of more than 24,000.We America’s most individual actors, jointly with the London Aquarium, and We completed our first Disability made 10 new English subtitled prints Steve Buscemi, a focus on the work in September invited 300 children to Strategy, with action plans, in March of Kurosawa films, including neglected of both the and Agatha hear a speaker, watch Into the Deep 2002.This policy was developed with titles like Stray Dog and Red Beard. Christie, as well as a wide range of and then visit the Aquarium. Our expert consultants and gave us As these are the only good subtitled talks and events. screening of Shackleton’s Antarctic direction for effectively engaging with prints in existence, we have had a Adventure, shown as part of National disabled people on a range of issues fantastic response to both UK and Our Cinema Services team supported Schools Film Week sold out in October. including access, focused provision international tours of these following the tour of the Human Rights Watch In November, we held teachers’ of activities, and staffing.

Sick The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure, Super Masochist (1997), bfi Video and DVD © NOVA / WBGH Boston Phil Mulloy, Extreme Animation (1991–2001), Aguirre, Wrath of God 1972 bfi Video and DVD Bande à part (1964), bfi release 2001 Bahar, Bollywood in Love exhibition Two or Three Things I Know about Her (1966), bfi release 2002

13 British Film Institute Annual Review 2001_2002 14 British Film Institute As part of the roll out of the bfi’s new cultural diversity strategy, we developed the flagship diversity project, ImagineAsia, to be a major celebration of films from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and British Asians.

Our Video Publishing section started to the former bfi Productions Unit and films have played in all key territories. the potential of digital restoration.A produce DVD releases with Hearing of material from the NFTVA. Back home, Nosferatu went on a technical study was implemented to Impaired Subtitles of English language The introductions were filmed at seven-venue, UK tour with ‘Spotty Dog investigate capturing titles specifically films.We were the first video label to the NFTVA. Films’ musicians playing a score to the intended for internet broadcast (web include subtitling of additionality – silent print. Meshes of the Afternoon casting).A large collection of our titles subtitled include Sick and The fourth British Silent Film Weekend and Un Chien andalou were part of Archive video material is being George Washington. in April, held at Broadway, Nottingham Tate Modern’s Surrealism Unbound transferred to modern digital formats. themed the British and American film Exhibition which ran from September This is making significant quantities Other ways of seeing our industries before Hollywood started to to January. of material available for easier access collections dominate.This was a key event in by the public. Films, television material and other promoting the rare holdings of the All 34 UCI venues participated in items were made available to venues NFTVA. booking one-day ‘Director’s Chair’ Digital restoration experts from and organisations internationally and slots.Titles included Don’t Look Now, Germany visited the NFTVA and gave nationally throughout the year. On the international level, a Some Like It Hot, Singin’ in the Rain, a presentation at on the digital programme of 30 bfi titles relating to Alfie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Le Mépris restoration of Metropolis (1926) and The following are some selected London went to the Filmhaus and Annie Hall. conducted tests in the Archive digilab. examples. Stobergasse in Austria for a ‘London on Film’ season.And a programme And our Archive catalogued our Our off-air recording facilities were We worked on a number of television of 34 ‘Free Cinema’ British titles were collection of Indian cinema posters. developed to accommodate recording documentary productions, including sent on a four-city tour of Spain A display of these, along with other of BBC4 from digital broadcast ITV’s ‘Some Liked it Hot’; the three playing at Gijon,Valencia, Coruna and items, entitled ‘Bollywood in Love’, will platforms. part series ‘The Empire in Colour’ (to Madrid. go on tour to UK venues as part of the be screened in September 2002); and ImagineAsia project. Other digital work over the year Five films: The Cloud with officials from Buckingham Palace included developing Screenonline, Capped Star (Meghe Daka Tara), and Windsor Castle to supply material Digitisation a major educational online project Subarnarekha, A River Called Titus for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. Work took place throughout the year funded by an award from the New (Titas Ektir Nadir Nam), Reason on digitising certain material with a Opportunities Fund (see page 20). Argument & Story (Jukti Takko Ar We renegotiated our TV agreements view to making it more accessible Gappo) and E Flat went on tour at the to allow wider access to our and widely available. Santa Fe College, the UCLA Film & TV collections at regional archives across Archive, the Pacific Film Archive, the the UK. The Archive took steps into the world Harvard Film Archive and the of digital technology, by commissioning Cinematheque Ontario.These are the Working with the cable channel consultants to look at the cultural, only subtitled prints in existence from Artsworld, we programmed a six- operational and strategic implications this important Bengali film-maker. week, Friday night prime slot to of collecting material ‘born digital’ This tour of North America was the last showcase work from the bfi – from and setting up a ‘digilab’ to explore in a major international tour where the

Cyberworld © 2000 IMAX Corporation and Dame bfi London IMAX Cinema at the RLFF The Warrior (2001), © Channel 4 Nicole Kidman at the RLFF and Jeff Bridges at the RLFF Cate Blanchett at the RLFF

15 British Film Institute Annual Review 2001_2002 Helping raise standards of teaching and learning

16 British Film Institute Highlights from the Regus London Film Festival toured to seven UK cities and included a special educational event based around Monsters, Inc.

Education lies at the heart of all support the moving image for all our distance learning courses. our activities our acquisitions, requirement of the National We were invited to carry out an restorations, screenings and Curriculum and GCSE English. evaluation of the ‘UK-wide Digital publications all play an integral Video Project’ being run by the British part in this remit. But we work For Film and Media Studies Educational Communications specifically with other education (post-16): Technology Agency (BECTA), for providers to encourage awareness • Representation, the second title in £10,000.And 15 Best Practice of moving image culture, the series of photocopiable teaching Research Scholarship Projects were regardless of people’s age or packs on Key Concepts for Film and set up in Devon and England-wide, level of knowledge. Media Studies. with a total value of £35,000. • Film Genres, the third title in this series. Educational publications • An Introduction to Film Language,an Other educational projects We produced a series of new interactive CD-ROM to teach post-16 Cineclub publications and an expanded students, and teachers new to moving The bfi’s Cineclub was launched in catalogue of resources which has image education, the grammar of film. September 2001 at the Ritzy Cinema, established the bfi as a moving image London.This initiative, aimed at Teacher training resource provider for schools and teenagers, was piloted between At the London Media Studies colleges, earning £70,000, up from September and July.Teenagers aged Conference in July we gave three days £15,000 the previous year. between 14 to 16 viewed films and of training to 334 media teachers. were introduced to low-budget digital For primary schools: A further 107 teachers enrolled on film-making. In January 2002, the • Show Us a Story, a teaching guide distance-learning courses, achieving ‘premiere’ of six films produced as to using a range of fiction films in the a high level of completion.And in- part of the Cineclub initiative with six primary school context. service training sessions were run at schools in Greenwich took place at • Story Shorts, a video compilation of many different venues across the the Ritzy. Groups of students viewed short films accompanied by a teaching United Kingdom.Teacher training the films and took part in onstage guide, to support the National Literacy overall totalled 9,205 ‘training hours’. discussions of their achievement. Strategy and develop cineliteracy. The programme is ongoing. We mounted an inaugural A Level For secondary schools: Media Studies Conference in Bradford Reminiscence projects • ‘Macbeth on Film’, a video compilation in October, as a northern counterpart In March 2002 we received a of extracts from three film versions of to our long-established annual £35,000 grant from the Adult and Macbeth, accompanied by conference at the South Bank, Community Learning Fund that a teaching guide and photocopiable London, and started a new distance enabled us to continue and expand student sheets. learning MA module,‘Introduction to our work on cinema and • Reading Films, a teaching guide and Digital Video Editing’, in January. New reminiscence.The funding enables photocopiable student sheets to web support software was introduced a two-year project to develop film

An Introduction to Film Language Monsters, Inc (2001) © Disney / Pixar

17 British Film Institute Annual Review 2001_2002 Education lies at the heart of all our activities: our acquisitions, restorations, screenings and publications all play an integral part in this remit.

clubs for older people and events Festival was a special educational provide a definitive reference resource Following a selection process in where children can learn about the event based around Monsters, Inc. on British film and television history on which we were competing with a experience of cinema-going 30 to 50 the web, with access in UK schools number of other major institutions, years ago, directly from older people. Dramatic interpretations and libraries to key film extracts. we were selected to receive the ITC’s Our Actors Consultancy enjoyed a We began work on the project in collections.A number of factors A travelling exhibition is planned to successful year.Various shows were October and anticipate launching influenced the ITC’s decision, bring recorded memories of film club staged for the Education Projects Unit, participants to a wide audience. it early in 2003. including the bfi’s focus on education, including ‘Entertaining the Nation’, The project is based on existing work established connections with the ‘Desperately Seeking Suffrage’, Research with Age Exchange, who remain our television industry and investment ‘Literacy and Cineliteracy’ and ‘News In March, the Youth Work Press partners.We are also running a in new media. from No Man’s Land’, making use of published a report ‘Being Seen, Being complementary project looking at archive material, drama and debate Heard’, a study we had undertaken The new, merged library will create British Asian film-going experiences to present moving image material in with the National Youth Agency.This an unparalleled resource for the in partnership with Sampad, a a lively and informative way. highlighted the fact that every year, public, academics and creative Birmingham-based Asian music, more than 17,000 children and young industries. dance and drama organisation. The Consultancy also recruited and people in the UK are involved in The Library's outreach initiatives took Associate Tutor Scheme rehearsed a company of six actors to making films or videos.The research support the Moving Pictures touring a major step forward with the setting The Associate Tutor Scheme is a looked at informal sector opportunities exhibition. Important new contracts up of an executive group to develop UK-wide database of more than 30 for 5–25 year olds to make moving were won to provide live interpretation the UK-wide Library and Information people who can provide a range of image productions. for the Public Records Office and Plan for Film and Television.This educational events. Quality assurance British Waterways, and the team also brings together representatives from is met through a panel of experts who Over 200 delegates attended an found time to host an international other libraries across the UK, with review applications and provide International Media Conference conference at the NFT. significant collections in our subject mentoring.The Scheme broadens the entitled ‘Global Village or Global areas.Activities proposed include: range of providers available to venues. Image? Representing Diversity and Screenonline Difference’. Keynote speakers training courses for library staff; In July, the New Opportunities Fund an audit of film and television NFT schools programme included Bell Hooks, Sorious Samura made an award of £1.2 million to the collections; and a web-based An important highlight of the year was and Mandla Langa.And finally, a bfi under its Digitisation of Learning funding bid to the Nuffield Foundation information source. the huge expansion in the range and Materials programme. Screenonline, quantity of events offered for schools to explore media coverage of the the name of the consortium of which Bradford riots was successful. The year saw the first in a new series at the NFT.The autumn term 2001 the bfi is the lead partner, will build on of Library initiatives to support saw a three-fold increase in events; the expertise gained through the seasons at the NFT.A major display more than 150 events were held, The bfi National Library various online projects which In the summer, we responded to an in the Stephen Street reading room reaching over 18,000 attendees. have been undertaken from 1998.The invitation to tender by submitting a brought together a wide range of Included in the regional tour of significant contribution from the New proposal to Television materials on Jeañ Luc Godard, from highlights of the Regus London Film Opportunities Fund will enable us to Commission to take over their library. across the Library collections.This

18 British Film Institute was promoted by a special flyer which highlights of the year, reflecting the was distributed at the NFT during the profound changes in the international definitive Godard season in the film industry, was the digital roadshow summer, and supported by a we put on in partnership with the Film bibliography, available on the website. Council’s New Cinema Fund.This mix of Other displays during the year focused screenings and heated discussions on Cary Grant and Werner Herzog. travelled to six cities across the UK and reached a new audience of regional The Library broke new ground by film-makers and enthusiasts.The setting up a Writer in Residence, magazine itself continues to publish the supported by the Royal Literary Fund. highest standard of film commentary. Ade Solanke was based in the Library Reading Room, where library users bfi books and bfi staff were able to arrange This year saw the launch of two major meetings to discuss and gain valuable new series and our first forays into insights into scriptwriting and publishing concerning digital media development.As well as offering users and film. this unique value-added service, the scheme enabled the Library to bfi World Directors is a series on promote its huge collection of contemporary film directors.The first screenplays and scripts. During the titles were Youssef Chahine and residence period, there was also a . substantial display in the Library The Television Book project concerns bringing together materials on the five titles overviewing television subject of scriptwriting, including studies for students in the manner of examples from the script collection. the bfi's Cinema Book.The first title, The database of the catalogue of The Television Genre Book (edited by Glen Creeber) was our UK bestseller unpublished scripts held in our Special for frontlist titles. New Media titles Collections Unit was completed and were led off by Experimental Cinema made available in the Library Reading in the Digital Age by Malcolm Le Grice Room. and New Screen Media (which Publishing included a DVD-ROM of moving image Sight and Sound magazine extracts) edited by Martin Rieser and Sight and Sound magazine is the movie Andrea Zapp, a collaboration with ZKM in Germany. buff’s magazine of choice. One of the

Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers Youssef Chahine,bfi Publishing Volume I 1895–1910, bfi Video Cyberworld © 2000 IMAX Corporation Hindle Wakes (1927), bfi Video Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure, Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968), bfi Video © Nova / WABH Boston The Canterbury Tales (1972), bfi Video

19 British Film Institute Annual Review 2001_2002 Getting the best value out of what we do

Partnerships Collaborations Mike Mashon and Jenni Dennis from revenue to go up by 40%, alongside Sponsorship Partnership with the Arts and the Library of Congress and Bob Gitt much improved marketing and media Two key partnerships for which we Humanities Research Board-funded of UCLA. Scott MacQueen of Walt coverage for the bfi. have been particularly grateful are Centre for British Film and Television Disney spent two weeks at the sponsorships by Regus Plc and Studies produced major new research Conservation Centre, holding two Some 600,000 people across the Accenture. Regus are the title sponsor into our holdings.The Centre also all-staff question and answer sessions UK saw bfi-released films, with our of the 46th London Film Festival for funded two of our staff to take and meetings with staff teams, as Bookings Section exceeding its the second year this year. research sabbaticals to look at little- well as reviewing work in progress in financial targets for the year. Our known parts of our Collections. our Quality Checking Theatre and an Access Section as a whole increased Our successful relationship with all day technical seminar at the Kodak income targets by more than Regus Plc was recognised in the We established a strong working Theatre in Hemel Hempstead. £500,000. It was a bumper year FT/Arts and Business Awards 2001, relationship with the for theatrical releases. Breakfast at where it won the award for Arts, Foundation, who have funded a Improving our results Tiffany’s grossed more than a quarter Business and Corporate Identity. project to catalogue Lean materials We are constantly looking for ways of a million pounds at the UK box and make these accessible via the to improve our efficiency and office. The partnership also won the Hollis web. Funding has also been provided effectiveness. Sales overall exceeded the revenue Award for Best Use of Brand Identity for the restoration of Lean’s Summer target by £222,000, or 26%. as well as the much coveted Hollis Madness (1955), for which we are For example, Sight and Sound Sponsorship of the Year Award.We very grateful. magazine fulfilled its remit to achieve At the NFT, our attendance figures also took part in the 13th National a zero-subsidy accounting year, largely went up, exceeding the target (despite Sponsorship Conference, presenting A very successful cultural diversity due to an outstanding advertising fewer performances) following a paper on the relationship as an internship scheme has seen new sales figure of £146,000, a five per changes to programming strategy example of best practice. relationships established with Black, cent increase over the target figure, and scheduling. Asian and disabled film-makers, and and ten per cent better than the The Festival as a whole generated the creation of databases of contacts previous year. In the Archive, as a result of a review more sponsorship than ever before, and possible acquisitions. Material of work flow through the film lab, both from cash sponsors, in-kind from the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Our Publishing Section transferred its output was increased by 50% using sponsors and media partnerships. and ‘Lifting the Lid’, a disability film US distribution from Indiana University the same level of staffing. Procedures festival, was acquired. Press to the University of were established to track all work Accenture’s sponsorship has enabled Press.This massive logistical exercise orders throughout the centre. us to release new prints of classic As part of a programme of involving computer systems, finance films.We released Alfie,Annie Hall benchmarking its processes against and the physical transfer of some Efficiency measures and If …. during the year to popular those in similar organisations, the 60,000 books, was completed Our IT department completed an acclaim. NFTVA invited visitors from other successfully and on time.The impact upgrade of the bfi’s IT infrastructure, archives and commercial laboratories of this move is expected to be which included a complete to review the Archive’s work practices significant. Early estimates expect US refurbishment of core network and procedures. Speakers included

20 British Film Institute Our successful relationship with Regus Plc was recognised in the FT/Arts and Business Awards 2001, where it won the award for Arts, Business and Corporate Identity.

devices, installation of a ‘server farm’ Human Resources (HR) Department. running the Windows 2000 The change in name reflected a platform across the Institute, and change in the emphasis of the implementation of the Microsoft Office department moving from being a and Exchange productivity and reactive administrative department messaging systems.This was to a more proactive department supported by a comprehensive supporting managers to achieve training programme, which ensured their business plan goals through that all bfi staff were familiar with the effective use of staff. new software systems. Building on the success of the 2000 We built and consulted on the programme, we organised another prototype of the bfi Integrated round of cultural diversity internships, Database (BID) which will allow data offering five Black and Asian people from the Filmographic (SIFT) and a year-long opportunity to work within Technical Records (TecRec) databases bfi departments to gain skills and to be interrogated seamlessly.This knowledge of the industry. Extensive development has involved significant skills training was offered as part of input from professionals in various the internship, and in return the bfi disciplines throughout the bfi and has acquired new contacts, knowledge been managed by the IT Unit and insight from the interns. according to the PRINCE 2 project management methodology, which will Team Performance Management become the model for approaching processes were implemented across similar projects in the future. the bfi for the first time in 2001/2. Information sessions and training Improving the quality for managers and staff took place of bfi services to ensure everyone was able to There are numerous examples of the undertake objective setting and ways we are constantly working to performance reviews at the end of this improve our services.An important financial year.This resulted in most part of this is enhancing our staff skills staff receiving Performance Related and knowledge. Pay at the end of the financial year having achieved their team targets. bfi staff: our most valuable asset It was not a successful year for pay In April 2001 we changed the name of negotiations.The breakdown of our Personnel Department to the negotiations led to industrial action

If.... (1968), bfi release 2002 Bande à part (1964), bfi Video Alfie (1966), bfi release 2001 Meet Me In St. Louis (1944), bfi release 2001 Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure © NOVA / WBGH Boston

21 British Film Institute Annual Review 2001_2002 We are planning to create a new public building that will bring together all the Institute’s activities into one exciting new centre. It will be a national centre for excellence in film exhibition and a showcase for our collection of film and television resources.

being taken by Amicus-MSF in Other improvements October 2001’s issue of Positif, hundred per cent of responses rated January.This consisted of a work to our services the prominent French cinephile the service as either excellent or to rule and half day strikes on two We are planning to create a new magazine contained an article on good (69% said ‘excellent’).This mornings.Action was suspended public building that will bring together film publishing in the UK which is a positive perception of access to in February and settled at ACAS at all the Institute’s activities into one identified the British Film Institute our Archive. which agreement was reached on exciting new centre. It will be a as the pre-eminent publisher in the a pay settlement for 2002/3 as national centre for excellence in film field.The feature included in-depth And finally, as one further example well as 2001/02. exhibition and a showcase for our interviews with Publishing staff of improving our service, our Stills collection of film and television Rob White and Andrew Lockett. Section successfully piloted an We sent out our annual staff opinion resources.Also planned there, are an ISDN service for stills sales: user survey in September.The response education complex, mediatheque, our A number of quality-related exercises feedback was extremely positive rate was around 43%, with 202 Library and display areas.We have took place in the NFTVA over the year and the service is now being rolled surveys returned.We were very selected David Chipperfield Architects under the auspices of the Heritage out to all customers. pleased to note that overall to design the building and its precise Lottery Fund project,‘An Archive for satisfaction in the bfi as a place to location is under discussion as part of the 21st Century’. In December we work had increased to 82% in the South Bank masterplan deliberations. completed an analysis of our current 2001/2. It was 66% in the previous work processes at the NFTVA and year.The results of the survey, of To meet the growing worldwide have begun using these results to help course, showed the opportunity for demand for films on DVD, our Film shape future practices and improvement in a range of areas, Sales Section seconded its Film procedures. especially pay, and these will be Sales Coordinator to create best addressed. quality DVD masters for our Peter This resulted in greatly increased Greenaway collection.The project output. Staff continue to process Towards the end of the year the HR should be finished in time for backlogs of film and video materials Department was heavily involved in 2002, for second quarter 2003 in the Archive, identify their content, supporting the consultation and release in major territories. check their condition, and catalogue implementation processes following the contents.As part of the project a proposed reorganisation of the bfi August 2001 saw the launch of our we developed a prototype barcoding structure. Interviews were held for the Publishing Section’s ‘21 years’ trade system. Deputy Director post and two new promotion, which received editorial posts of Director of Development and coverage in the publishing journal the We conducted a customer satisfaction Communications and Director of Bookseller and included an survey of all users to our Donor Access Planning and Resources.The changes enlightening ‘best film books’ poll. service.The survey ran from October to associated with this restructure will The winner was the bfi’s Cinema Book January and we got a 45% response continue into the new financial year. (edited by Pam Cook). rate, which accurately reflected the services user demographics. One

22 British Film Institute bfi National Film and Television Archive Pakeezah, Bollywood in Love exhibition Media and Meaning: An Introduction, bfi Publishing Do the Right Thing, bfi Publishing Regus London Film Festival (RLFF), 2001 © Nova / WABH Boston Seven Samurai, bfi Publishing The Television Genre Book, bfi Publishing

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