BFI FAN Screen Heritage Resource Guide

The BFI FAN Screen Heritage Resource Guide highlights best practices to support your archive screenings, including case studies, up-to-date contact details for Film Archives and potential partners, and tips from leading archive programmers.

Presented by Film Hub Northern Ireland, utilising the expertise of Andy Robson (BFI FAN’s Champion for Screen Heritage), this guide assembles key audience facing resources from the last five years to enhance your heritage events and support your screen heritage projects.

The BFI FAN Screen Heritage Resource Guide includes:

  • Best practice programming guides for archive screenings
  • Tips and expertise from leading programmers
  • Case studies illustrating multiple audience approaches
  • Up-to-date contact details for the thirteen National and Regional Film Archives and wider archive sector organisations
  • A list of key distributors for classic and repertory programme strands
  • Key film festivals and industry events in the UK related to re-releases, restorations and screening archival moving image collections
  • A full chronicle of Britain on Film collections on the BFI Player to spark inventive programming ideas

Download the BFI FAN Screen Heritage Resource Guide


As Screen Heritage FAN Champion area for BFI FAN (2023-2026), Film Hub NI supports the FAN membership to programme screen heritage in creative, relevant and engaging ways for audiences UK-wide and will collaborate with FAN members to create new audience facing resources in the future.

Please contact Film Hub NI for more info: fanscreenheritage@gmail.com

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