FAN Screen Heritage Resource Guide

Best practice programming guides for archive screenings

Type Document

Category Screen Heritage

Resource Title FAN Screen Heritage Resource Guide

URL bit.ly

Author Andy Robson

Source Film Hub NI

Date 2024

Film Hub NI introduce a new guide to screening film archive for BFI FAN Members.


Presented by Film Hub NI, who oversee the FAN Champion area for Screen Heritage for the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN), this guide assembles key audience-facing resources from the last five years to enhance future screen heritage events with FAN Members across the UK. Utilising the expertise of Andy Robson, the BFI FAN Champion for Screen Heritage, the guideā€™s objective is to support FAN exhibitors in developing their work in this area.

This document brings together:

  • 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
  • An assemble of FAN Members with a strong commitment to screen heritage exhibition
  • And to spark inventive programming ideas, a full chronicle of Britain on Film collections on the BFI Player.


Download the FAN Screen Heritage Resource Guide



A recording of a session where Andy took FAN members through the guide can be watched here. 

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