About EIFAC

In 2003 a small group of academics, film enthusiasts and members of the film industry who were all members of the Edinburgh Film Guild started talking about the limitations of research into film audiences. The background to this discussion was the 75th anniversary of the Film Guild in 2004/5. The outturn of this was the first Edinburgh Film Audiences conference in March 2005. Following the success of this event, the decision to hold another conference in March 2007 was taken.

The Edinburgh International Film Audiences conference will be running again on March 26th and 27th 2009. Our aim, to provide a space where film audience researchers amongst others, can come together to present completed work, discuss on-going as well as future work, remains constant.

The call for papers has been closed and we are now taking registrations for the 2009 conference.

"Thanks so much for organizing this conference. It was so helpful to hear from and interact with filmmakers as well as those who research audiences. I was also impressed by the international representation among participants. Casual and compelling."