Dear All
To remind you of an up-and-coming event—Breaking the Sound Barrier: Women Sounding Out in British Film & Television--organised by our Network to take place at BFI Southbank, NFT 3 on Saturday 18 June, 9.45–5.00pm, to be followed by a reception and Screening of women’s films featuring their work as sound recordists and designers.
We would be grateful if you would circulate news of this event to your students and colleagues. The programme--which aims to open up the work of women past and present in sound cinema--is pasted below.
Hoping to see as many of you as can make it at what promises to be a lively and stimulating event.
Women’s Film and Television History Network—UK/Ireland
Breaking the Sound Barrier: Women Sounding Out
In British Film & Television
BFI Southbank Saturday 18 June 2016
09.45 - 10.10 Registration
10.15 - 10.30 Welcome and Introduction
10.30 - 11.15 The Transition to Sound
Laraine Porter (De Montfort University): Women Filmmakers and the Transition to Sound in the British Film Industry.
11.15 - 12.00 Women in Sound Film and Television
Melanie Bell (University of Leeds): From Foley Artists to Boom Operators: Women and Sound in British Film
12.00 - 12.10 Comfort Break
12.10 - 1.00 Compilation of Film-Sound Work by Women
1.00 - 2.15 Lunch Break at local cafes or bring your own to BFI's Blue Room
2.15 - 3.00 Women Composing for the Screen
Emma Sandon (University of London, Birkbeck): Elisabeth Lutyens: from Gold Coast Film Unit to Hammer Horror
David Butler (Manchester University) Inventing for Radio, Film, Television and Beyond: The Music of Delia Derbyshire
3.00 - 3.50 The Woman's Voice
Terry Wragg (Leeds Animation Workshop): How We Learnt to Do Sound for Ourselves
Judi Lee-Headman (Sound Recordist): Recording Sound
Adele Fletcher (Freelance sound & dialogue editor: University of Hertfordshire & Association of Motion Picture Sound) Exploring the Film Industry Through the Ears of a Woman.
3.50 - 4.00 Comfort Break
4.00 - 5.00 Shout Out: Round Table exploring with experts and our audience research questions and resources for writing women's film sound practice into film history
Chaired by Bryony Dixon (NFTVA): With Emma Smart (BFI Library Manager), Karen Houlihan (former BBC sound editor & senior screen sound tutor, National Film School) Catherine Grant (University of Sussex/Film Studies for Free/Audiovisualcy); Philippa Lovatt (Stirling University & New Soundtrack journal)
5.00 - 6.00 Reception Sponsored by the Association of Motion Picture Sound
Event supported by MeCCSA Women’s Media Studies Network and University of Sunderland.
Followed by evening NFT 3 programme featuring women's work on sound film--6.15-8.15
Single Event or Evening Screening (10.65/8.35) or Joint tickets (16.00/12.00) available from BFI box office
