Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference

NEWS
1 April 2009: Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference was delighted to award Louise Anderson the price for best student paper for '"I should remember them becasue I sort of picture them but I..." The Challenges of Working with Older Cinema Audiences and Distant Memories'.

EIFAC is a bi-annual conference concerned with film audience research. It aims to provide a space where film audience researchers and others can come together to present completed work and discuss on-going as well as future work.

The 3rd conference was on March 26-27, 2009, at the Filmhouse, Lothian Road, Edinburgh.

Programme

The programme was full of interesting papers. We were proud to confirm the following speakers:

Opening speaker: Ian Christie, from the School of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck, University of London.
Plenary speakers:
- Professor Martin Barker, Professor of Film and Television Studies,
  Aberystwyth University, co-editor of Particip@tions.
- Dr. Emily Munro, Head of Learning, Glasgow Film Theatre.
- Professor Robin McPherson, Screen Academy, Napier University.
Closing speaker: Dr Sean Perkins, Research Executive at the UK Film Council.

"It was wonderful to see the range of national and international contexts in which suchresearch is being carried out. It reconfirmed my conviction that audience research is one area in which we can build closer ties with the film industry and film exhibitors in particular."