Make Film History E-learning Module Launch at the Irish Film Institute

Welcome to the Make Film History E-learning Module Launch!

Date: November 5, 2024

Location: Irish Film Institute

The new course is free to access and features interviews with leading filmmakers, archivists, editors, archive producers and copyright experts. We will also preview our new film portal, which gives students direct access to watch and download the archive films available through the scheme.

This morning workshop is aimed at educators interested in using these archival resources to inspire student filmmaking in any post-16 educational setting; students are also welcome to attend. The programme will include:

• Archive producer Stephen Slater on the challenges of mining and reusing archival material
• A screening of archive-inspired short films created during the filmmaker challenge we ran at Sheffield DocFest in June
• Filmmakers and educators Brendan Culleton and Irina Maldea on the ethics of creative use in the edit suite and in the classroom
• Advice on copyright and creative reuse and using the Make Film History resources for video essays.

Speaker Bios:

Stephen Slater has had an interest in documentary film-making since an early age growing up in Derbyshire, England. Beginning his television career in sports production, in 2011 he produced and directed the BBC FOUR documentary Destination Titan about the Huygens probe landing on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Since then, his interest in archival storytelling has seen him specialising as an Archive Producer for a series of high profile feature documentaries, including The Last Man On The Moon, George Best: All By Himself, and the BAFTA-awardwinning Hillsborough.

In 2019, the critically acclaimed documentary Apollo 11 was based on his years of expertise with the NASA film archive. It premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Special Jury Award for Editing, and was released in U.S cinemas and IMAX in March 2019. It was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Documentary, and was the highest grossing documentary of 2019, taking in $16 million at the box office. It was followed by the spinoff Apollo 11 Quarantine (2021).

Stephen is a regular consultant on space related documentaries and movies, most recently a three part BBC / CNN series about the Columbia disaster, and the Apple Films movie Fly Me To The Moon, starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum. He is the executive producer of the documentary Apollo 13: Survival, released globally on Netflix in September 2024.

Director Irina Maldea and producer Brendan Culleton have been working together for 20 years to create insightful and entertaining documentaries dealing with historical, political and social issues. Their films often involve taking a new look at events of decades ago, through intensive film archive research combined with interviews with the participants of those events. They have dealt with global issues such terrorism, peacekeeping, famine, war, mental illness, racism, emigration, propaganda. Their films have been praised for their sensitivity and insight, and for how the participants emerge in a new light, offering the public a new understanding of their actions.

Learn more about Make Film History here.

This research/project was funded by UKRI-AHRC and the Irish Research Council under the 'UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Networking Call' (grant numbers AH/V002066/1 and IRC/V002066/1).

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Dublin 2, Ireland