Andy Robson

Andy Robson is a producer, researcher and funding manager, working in partnership with screen heritage organisations and moving image archives. An alumni of UEA’s Film Archiving MA, he interned at American Zoetrope, before going on to co-found the Marc Karlin Archive in 2010, bringing greater visibility to the radical filmmaker through screenings in collaboration with BFI Southbank, Whitechapel Gallery, the Arnolfini, Tate Liverpool, DMZ Doc Festival, AV Festival and the Open City Docs Festival, and culminating in the publication, Marc Karlin – Look Again (2015). 

In 2018, as Screen Heritage Producer with the BFI Film Audience Network, He oversaw the Screen Heritage fund for four years that encouraged independent cinemas and film festivals to deliver ambitious screenings UK wide, showcasing the collections of the National and Regional Film Archives with new audiences. Following on from his collaborative PhD with the Amber Film and Photography Collective, he continues to research the UK's independent film and video workshop movement of the 1980s/90s, in particular how the workshop model of integrated practice - the amalgamation of production, exhibition, distribution and education activities - which gave communities a voice, can be reworked today. 

Currently, in collaboration with BFI Film Audience Network and BFI Film Academy, he supports partnership and audience building opportunities between archives, exhibitors and filmmakers, and sits on the Board at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF). 

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