Monday, 05 July 2010 09:31

This July the BFI launches a new programme of silent films at venues across the UK, bringing rarely seen and fascinating films from the BFI National Archive to new audiences in a regular programme screening at Leicester's Phoenix Square, Watershed in Bristol and the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge.
 
Acknowledging the challenges of exhibiting silent films to audiences not familiar with the films, this BFI initiative provides subsidised access to some of the BFI National Archive's vast collections of silent film, with selections specially curated by Bryony Dixon, BFI National Archive Curator and Programmer of the British Silent Film Festival.
 
The strand launches on 11 July and coincides with Long Live Film: Celebrating 75 Years of the BFI National Archive, a two-month celebration of the world's most significant archive of the moving image.

For more information please refer to the following link:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/about/media/releases/20100316_bsff.pdf