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British Film Institute Annual Report 2002/2003 BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2002/2003 CONTENTS CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD 2 DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD 4 ABOUT THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE 5 NEW BEGINNINGS – CONTINUED SUCCESS 8 ACCESSING THE TREASURE HOUSE OF THE NFTVA 11 PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION 12 THE bfi LONDON IMAX® CINEMA 14 EXHIBITIONS 16 bfi DVD/VIDEO RELEASES 2002/03 17 FROM HOLLYWOOD TO BOLLYWOOD 18 NFTVA RESTORATIONS 19 SCREENONLINE 19 FIFTY GLORIOUS YEARS OF THE NFT 21 17TH LONDON LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL 22 46TH REGUS LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2002 22 bfi EDUCATION 24 SIGHT & SOUND 26 bfi PUBLISHING 26 ARCHIVE SALES 26 bfi NATIONAL LIBRARY 27 THE bfi WEBSITE 28 bfi DIVERSITY 29 bfi SPONSORSHIP 30 LOOKING TO THE FUTURE 31 FINANCIAL SUMMARY 32 CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD I felt a keen sense of privilege and In addition, it ran a hugely The bfi’s Sight & Sound magazine Anthony Minghella CBE responsibility when I took up my successful Satyajit Ray film season, grabbed the headlines with its post as Chairman of the bfi in a marvellous Ingmar Bergman 10-year directors’ poll of favourite January 2003. retrospective and a film festival films which led to a surge of visits specifically promoting the work to the bfi website. While the bfi The energy, vitality and diversity of disabled film-makers and films National Library acquired the of our activities and initiatives are about disability. collections of the Independent very clear from the pages of this Television Commission – report. The London Film Festival consolidating its position as the consolidated its position as the Nothing could better exemplify the world’s foremost library on film premiere public film festival in and television. breadth and ambition of the work Europe, attracting a record 110,000 of the bfi than ImagineAsia. This visitors in only 16 days, while the The National Film and Television project, created in partnership with London Lesbian and Gay Film Archive continued to identify and some 70 organisations across the Festival also saw a record increase access to film material UK, ran from April to November attendance. donated to the bfi over the last 25 2002 and was an enormous success. years thanks to funding from the In celebrating the film culture of bfi Access successfully forged Heritage Lottery Fund. The India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri partnerships with the Tate and Archive contributed to film Lanka and British Asian cinema, the Serpentine galleries to give festivals, both at home and it engaged with new multi-cultural exposure to little seen films from abroad, and continued its audiences who might previously the bfi archive. The department also important work preserving the have had no contact with the bfi. worked with the BBC to develop Mitchell and Kenyon collection. the Mitchell and Kenyon archive of We had other reasons to celebrate The Archive restored and toured films of everyday life early in the classic Sixties films such as in 2002-3. The National Film 20th century. Theatre celebrated its fiftieth Saturday Night and Sunday Morning birthday in October 2002, rightly (1960), A Taste of Honey (1961) and cementing its place in Britain’s The Loneliness of the Long Distance cultural life after half a century Runner (1962). Each of these titles screening and advocating the best was subsequently released on films from around the world. DVD and video. 2 “ The and the British film industry. and future of British cinema history, The Archive also undertook the The job of the bfi is a profoundly The bfi’s job, put simply, is to love complex restoration of the fifteen important one; it is the advocacy cinema, to contextualise it, and to titles of the 1921 series of shorts and interpretation of cinema from make its treasures available, not bfi The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Britain and other countries which only in our home at the NFT on otherwise might be denied the the South Bank, but also in South Thanks to bfi Education, more than attention of audiences throughout Shields and Southwold and South is an integral part of the 14,000 people attended educational the UK. Wales. events at the NFT. The team also held seminars, training days, and As a film-maker, I’ve been the We are lucky to have real support produced research and resource beneficiary of the Hollywood from our partners and paymasters material for schools and educators machine and am grateful to it, at the UK Film Council. They are across the UK. but I am also the product of an crucially involved in our future era which enjoyed a robust bfi in and have demonstrated an The Institute’s exciting new London and in the regions, where enormous understanding of director, Amanda Nevill, and I repertory cinema flourished and what the bfi is worth. have begun a review to identify where I learned of the beautiful what the bfi needs to be in the 21st and complex worlds created by I hope, in the coming year, we century. We have big plans. We can begin to make real progress Fellini, Kurosawa, Ray, Visconti, Martin Scorsese have a fantastic and ambitious Truffaut, De Sica, Lean and Buñuel. with all our ambitions and, in Board of Governors and a the process, take the class out of tremendous and absurdly Now provocative cinema is in classic cinema and the anorak off knowledgeable staff. And we owe danger of being ignored, forgotten its shoulders. special thanks to our immediate or suppressed. The bfi must be its predecessors, Joan Bakewell, Jon champion. It must be a welcome These films – and the bfi – are Teckman and Adrian Wootton, as home for films in a foreign there for everybody – regardless well as to departing governors language, for British audiences of community, colour or creed. Alan Frank, Terry Gilliam, Rodney who may speak a foreign language We are passionate about film and Payne and Jean Young. in their homes, for young the moving image. Our job is to audiences who are seeing share that passion with the people Kieslowski or Keaton for the first of this country. time not the twentieth, for directors Anthony Minghella CBE who want to have their say away from the mainstream cinema. 3 A gala screening of Limelight (1951) was part of the NFT50 celebrations . Photo © Roy Export Company Establishment. “ DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD If one word encapsulates the work As the bfi’s new Director I am in We also need to increase our Amanda Nevill of the bfi, it is passion – a passion the strange position of writing the effectiveness in delivering what for cinema and the moving image foreword for the bfi annual report we do, while remaining an in all its forms. for a period when I was gainfully international champion of film employed elsewhere. and television culture. It’s no exaggeration to say that this love of film weaves its way While I cannot therefore claim any As an incoming Director I have through the bfi in the same way credit for the great success of inherited stewardship of an that a name is stamped through ImagineAsia, the London Film organisation where there is an a stick of rock at the seaside. Festival and the NFT 50th enormous reservoir of knowledge, birthday celebrations, outlined in expertise and dedication. There is To an outsider looking in, the bfi’s this review – and the host of other much to applaud and there is passion for film has always been bfi successes and achievements much to do but, as this annual obvious. For seventy years the over the course of the year, – I can review snapshot of the work of the British Film Institute has been the retrospectively pay tribute to the bfi indicates, there is a bedrock of guardian and champion of film efforts of my predecessor Jon achievement on which to build. and television culture in this Teckman, Acting Director Adrian country. Wootton and the staff of the bfi for Working with the UK Film ensuring that there are sound Council and the Department of Generations of British people have Culture, Media and Sport and, the bfi to thank for their lifelong foundations on which to build a bright future for the Institute. most importantly, staff and love affair with cinema. Myself governors, I intend to ensure that included. As I write we are engaged in a the bfi moves with the times but I am now privileged to be steering comprehensive review of all our retains the passion for film that this venerable British institution activities. The bfi has a world-class has been integral to the British into a bright and successful future. reputation but it cannot afford to Film Institute since its inception rest on its laurels. We know we in 1933. need to engage with wider, more Amanda Nevill diverse audiences, to maximize our impact across the UK. 4 ABOUT THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE The bfi was established The bfi undertakes a broad range In 2002 we ran a hugely successful We provide an authoritative in 1933 by Royal Charter. of activities which benefit both celebration of South Asian cinema source of information on film and the public and the UK and (ImagineAsia) which involved television through the bfi National For seventy years the international film communities. Asian communities across the UK. Library – the library houses bfi has been the premier 44,000 reference books, more than cultural body in the world We hold the largest collection We run the world-renowned 5,000 periodical titles dating back dedicated to championing of film, television and moving National Film Theatre (bfi NFT) to 1889, two million newspaper images in the world.
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