We are proud to be collaborating with an inspiring range of co-curators to bring you the 9th edition of Cinema Rediscovered and touring programme as part of Other Ways of Seeing, a development opportunity ed by BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery.
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(In alphabetical order)
Abiba Coulibaly
Nationalité: Immigré (1975) + Ballade aux Sources (1965)
Abiba Coulibaly is an Anglo-Ivorian film programmer with a background in critical geography, whose work explores the intersection of ethics and aesthetics. After launching Magnum Photos’ UK Film Festival, she ed the BFI as Programming Assistant, and now programmes for Film Africa and Open City Documentary Festival.
Her projects, Brixton Community Cinema and Atlas Cinema, are experiments in what democratizing access to cinema - as both space and medium - could look like.
Check out Abiba's website here.
Amina Ferley Yael, Marta Calderón Quiñones and Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha:
Cinema Mentiré
Señora de nadie (1982) + Yo, La peor de todas (1990)
Cinema Mentiré is a pop-up film club that provides a platform for diverse voices from Latin America for UK audiences. Founded in 2023 by Amina Ferley Yael, Marta Calderón Quiñones and Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha, it celebrates the work of classic and contemporary filmmakers.
Cinema Mentiré has organised screenings in several cinema venues and off-spaces across London, such as Ciné Lumière, ICA, The Cinema Museum, The Garden Cinema, and has partnered with institutions, film festivals and independent collectives such as V&A East, QUEERCIRCLE, London Short Film Festival, CASA Presents, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, Cine Brazil, Romancero Books, among others.
Follow them on Instagram @cinema.mentire and their website.
André Sirangelo
Mulher de Verdade (1955)
André Sirangelo is a Brazilian-born, London-based screenwriter and film programmer with an MA in Film Curating from Birkbeck, University of London. He has programmed repertory films in independent cinemas in Brazil since 2017, helping bring rarely screened restorations to new audiences.
In the UK, he has collaborated with prestigious institutions including Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and the British Film Institute, as well as film clubs like Cine Brazil and Cinema Mentiré. André has introduced screenings at venues including Curzon Soho, Ciné Lumière, and the Embassy of Brazil in London, with a focus on bringing overlooked Latin American films to international audiences.
Follow André on Instagram @asirangelo.
Bruno Castro
Belarmino (1964)
Bruno has been a film curator and programmer since 2010. He was the driving force behind curating and programming at Alvalade Cineclube, a film society he founded in Lisbon (Portugal). He has specialised in documentary cinema at KINO-DOC and served as a trainer for the International Confederation of Arthouse Cinemas (CICAE), a jury member at the Berlin and Sarajevo Film Festivals, and a mentor at SOFA (School of Film Advancement).
He divides his time between Lisbon and Liverpool (UK), where he founded Imagine Futures CiC. He curates the new film programme at Shakespeare North Playhouse, screens new Portuguese cinema in the UK and runs the Cinedojo, a project for young programmers in both countries.
Follow Bruno on Instagram @imaginefutures.cic and their website here.
Carlota Matos
Belarmino (1964)
Carlota Matos (she/her) is a theatre and performance artist working internationally with a focus on social change, currently with projects in the UK, Portugal, and . Her practice explores questions of identity, migration, and mental ill-health, in the form of documentary / experimental/participatory performances.
She frequently collaborates with charities, artists from different disciplines, communities, and people who are not necessarily trained or experienced performers. Previous commissions include Projekt Europa and Counterpoints Arts. She leads a creative project with migrant women in Bristol, in partnership with refugee charity Borderlands, and recently co-created TASTE – a performative celebration of food, culture, and community at Trinity.
Charlotte Bendrey
The Angelic Conversation (1985) + Dungeness (1987)
Charlotte is an artist and curator based in Bristol. She graduated from Central Saint Martins with a degree in Fine Art in 2023 and has since been shortlisted for The Sid Motion Gallery prize and the Spike Island Dreamtime Fellowship. Her practice is concerned with a psychogeographic exploration of post-industrial space through moving-image and sonic installation.
Her interest in 16mm and artists’ film was amplified through a work placement with LUX during her degree. Recent curatorial projects include exhibitions and Pilgrimage and Renovation Job, both exploring themes of Hauntology and site-responsiveness.
Find Charlotte on Instagram @charlotte_bendreyy.
Cressida Williams
Kalamita (1982) + Craft & Film
Cressida Williams is a Bristol-based freelance curator and creative. She has previously worked alongside Bristol Experimental Expanded Film and The Cube to produce a series of short film screenings around women in experimental animation in 2019.
In 2022 her video artwork was displayed at centrespace gallery as part of an installation titled ‘DESTROYERTONES’, in collaboration with other visual and sound artists. Cressida recently completed Beyond Boundaries 360, where she had the opportunity to learn and collaborate with other early-career programmers & exhibitors.
Dáire Carson
Film on Film Present: Children’s Classics on 16mm
Dáire’s love for films began as a child watching a VHS of "The Wizard of Oz" on a loop repeatedly, and his love for film has only grown since. He studied film and screen arts at Arts University Plymouth. After graduating in a post-COVID world, he created and directed a film festival for students in Belfast, creating a space for them to screen their work and meet fellow creatives working in the city.
Dáire recently graduated with an MA in Curation at the University of the West of England, Bristol, which included a curatorial placement at Watershed and is now developing his freelance practice with a focus on family-friendly events.
Diwas Dewan
Yeelen (1987)
Diwas is an artist and filmmaker, a member of 'Out the Window', an art collective formed with friends and a recent BEEF (Bristol Experimental Expanded Film) recruit. He also volunteers at The Cube cinema, Bristol.
Since his formative years as a UWE fine art student, Bristol has had a big impact on his practice. The collaborative spirit amongst artists, the interest shown in each other’s work and the shared between the various artistic communities in the city has always been his main inspiration when hosting exhibitions and film screenings.
Diwas is a regular attendee at ‘Cinema Rediscovered', and he is excited to bring a film from the festival to The Cube, a much-loved independent cinema and art venue, in the heart of Kingsdown.
Ellisha Izumi von Grunewald
She Writes, He Directs: The Swimmer (1968) + Play it as it Lays (1972)
Ellisha Izumi is a film historian specialising in Denpa, a little-known genre of Japanese Y2K cinema. She has written for Cinema Year Zero and introduced films for Jjambbong, Double Wonderful and The Place Bedford.
Born in the UK to a Japanese mother and English father, Ellisha was raised in Brighton and studied in Bristol (UWE). She regularly attends Cinema Rediscovered since volunteering at the inaugural festival in 2016. Currently based in London they work as a tour guide at the Barbican and as an assistant for Queer East Festival.
Find them on Letterboxd, Instagram, Twitter and their website.
Harriet Taylor
Masumura x Wakao: Manji (1964) + Against The Grain: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Harriet is a Bristolian producer, writer, and community organiser, who hit the ground running in cinema exhibition via the Film Hub South West’s Beyond Boundaries in 2022 when she established SWITCH: a cinema strand addressing the need for better gender representation and inclusivity in all cinema industries across the UK.
Since 2023 she has been the producer and curator of the Queer Vision Film Festival and has collaborated with Slapstick Festival, Forbidden Worlds Film Festival, and ICO’s Screening Days.
Isabel Moir
Sun, sex and socialism: the cinema of Stephanie Rothman: The Working Girls (1974) + Velvet Vampire (1971)
Isabel Moir is currently a programmer at BFI London Film Festival. Prior to the BFI, Isabel worked as a programmer at the Independent Cinema Office, where she worked with a range of independent cinemas across the UK as well as Borderlines Film Festival.
Isabel also previously worked at the Barbican Centre and has contributed to various cinema programmes across London. She has also worked on a range of film festivals in various roles, including BFI London Film Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, BFI Future Film Festival and Overnight Film Festival.
Niyaz Saghari
Slovenian Double-bill: Alpe-Adria Underground! (2024) + Shorts
Niyaz Saghari is a Bristol-based experimental and documentary filmmaker and editor. She is a member of BEEF (Bristol Experimental Expanded Film). Niyaz studied film directing at the Art University of Tehran and has an M.A. in animation in the UK.
The theme of her work is based on marginal cultural histories and day-to-day life experiences that are considered insignificant. She uses Super 8 format and DIY processing methods. She also teaches, runs workshops and programs film screenings. Her films include VHS Diaries, Ripple Effect, and +x+=+, which have been screened in international festivals and exhibitions.
Rosie Beattie
Desert Hearts (1985)
Rosie Beattie (she/her) is an MSc Film Curation graduate, freelance film curator, and event producer based in Glasgow. She was the New Producer for the 2024 edition of Glasgow Film Festival, where she curated the repertory season What Will the Men Wear?, which explored the phenomenon of tro-wearing women stars in 1930s Hollywood.
She has researched and produced film programmes for Summerhall in Edinburgh and Glasgow Film Theatre. She is the curator and producer of Queer Cinema Sundays, a monthly film screening at GFT which explores the history and catalogue of LGBTQ+ cinema.
Selina Robertson
Sun, sex and socialism: the cinema of Stephanie Rothman: The Working Girls (1974) + Velvet Vampire (1971)
Selina Robertson is a film researcher, programmer and curator. She has worked in cultural film exhibition for over 20 years at the BFI, The Film Council and the Independent Cinema Office.
From 2003-2005, she was a film programmer at BFI Flare (formerly the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival). In 2007, she co-founded with Sarah Wood Club des Femmes, a queer feminist curating collective. In 2023, she completed a practice research PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, excavating cultural feminist exhibition film histories in 1980s London.
Yuriko Hamaguchi
Transnational Japan in Hollywood: House of Bamboo (1955) + Masumura x Wakao: The Wife Confesses (1961)
Yuriko Hamaguchi is an MA student in Film Studies, Programming and Curation at the National Film and Television School. She was the winner of the Pitch to Park Circus at Cinema Rediscovered 2024, with her season Transnational Japan in Hollywood exhibited at the National Science and Media Museum and set to screen at Watershed this summer.
She has also worked across various roles at several film festivals, including Film Africa, Raindance Film Festival, and TOKYO FILMeX. She is currently researching independent filmmaking movements during the 1984–85 miners’ strike, with a focus on representations of women’s experiences.
This edition is presented by Watershed and partners with the of the BFI Audience Projects Fund, awarding National Lottery funding, and principal sponsors Park Circus and STUDIOCANAL - read more about all of our sponsors and funders here.
