Rejected Supporting Statement - Belfast Film Festival, February 2022
My commensurate programming experience lies in my extensive planning and development of screenings for modules in many undergraduate and postgraduate film degree courses throughout the UK since 2012. Select examples that indicate my breadth of knowledge include weekly screenings for ‘Cinema and the American Avant-garde’ at University of Aberdeen, ‘Documentary and Contemporary Art’ at Lancaster University, and ‘Filming Literature’ at Newcastle University. I have also programmed for specialist film clubs, such as the Insight film club at Lancaster University in 2016 (where I gave them a taste of home in Good Vibrations ), what I affectionately termed as ‘Wrinkly Film Club’ at an Abbeyfield residential care home in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2017, and a season of Silver Screenings at Strand Arts Centre before I moved to England in 2014. In addition, I mentored Queen’s Film Theatre’s youth panel throughout 2010–2012 and helped them programme the Takeover Film Festival those thr...