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The FOCAL Awards 2022 Host: Sally Phillips Actor, writer, and producer Sally Phillips has appeared in some of the most popular and influential comedies of recent years. From the mischievous Travel Tavern receptionist of I’m Alan Partridge to generally well-meaning friend in Miranda, the co-star and co-writer of the sketch show Smack the Pony to a Finnish former PM and UN Special Envoy in HBO’s awardwinning Veep. From early performances at the Edinburgh Fringe, Sally graduated to appearances in comedy series including Chris Morris’ Brass Eye. Her breakthrough role in I’m Alan Partridge was followed by a starring role in the cult sitcom Hippies before joining fellow writer-performers Fiona Allen and Doon Mackichan on the awardwinning Smack the Pony. She also went on to star in acclaimed hospital comedy Green Wing, Jennifer Saunders’ Jam & Jerusalem, Sky’s Parents, and all three Bridget Jones films. Sally has also made regular appearances on shows from QI to The One Show, was a contestant in series five of Taskmaster, and has competed in celebrity versions of Pointless and The Chase.

FOCAL International Team Mary Egan - Director of Operations Camille Carlier - Awards, Events and Membership Coordinator Adrienne Kuster - Social Media and Marketing Coordinator

Other Credits: Video Editor: Nathan Leaman-Hill, R3store Studios

FOCAL International Executive Council Members Sandra Coelho, Gordon Craig, Jane Fish, Amanda Huntley, Ben Jones, Massimo Moretti, Raelene Rawlings, Laura Scougall, Vicky Turner, Jo Griffin, Simon Clark, Elizabeth Klinck, Kay Page, David Seevers, Kate Griffiths

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Programme Designer: Adrienne Kuster, FOCAL

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A message from FOCAL: After two years of the FOCAL virtual awards ceremonies, it is great to be back live and inperson to celebrate the 19th Annual FOCAL International Awards. Since their inception in 2004, the FOCAL International Awards have championed creativity, integrity, and sustainability in screen culture. The inaugural Awards were created to reward the often-unrecognised skills of archive and preservation professionals, with 10 awards being presented across various production categories and personnel working in the audiovisual industry. Over the years we have seen a huge increase in the appetite for archivedriven biographies and alternative narratives, major streaming platforms such as Netflix, Disney, Amazon are becoming more engaged with archive-based productions. Today the FOCAL International Awards are honouring 61 shortlisted nominees across 15 award categories. This is the highest number of nominees since we began the awards in 2004. 39% of the submissions we received were from UK, 33% from the USA, 23% from Europe and 5% from the rest of the world. Alongside FOCAL’s Mentoring Programme launched in 2022, aimed to help and provide guidance to people willing to grow a career in all areas of the archive industry, we are delighted to continue to work with the National Film and Television School who took part in the Student Jury Award for Most Inspiring Use of Archive. In addition, this year we decided to invite international students to take part. We were so pleased INA Sup, France accepted, which gave an interesting discussion to the shortlist nominations hearing the different viewpoints between the UK and France schools. We would like to thank all our jurors; the 2022 Awards received a wide variety of submissions making it a challenging but rewarding deliberation process for our dedicated jurors across the globe; a testament to the continuing and growing power of archival storytelling. A huge thank you to all our Awards sponsors, without your support we would not be able to hold the Awards, not forgetting the companies who gave up their time to help us prepare for tonight’s event. The last two years have been a difficult time for everyone as we learnt to deal and work under intense conditions regarding the COVID pandemic. Whether you work in an archive library, production company, are a researcher, archive producer or a service provider, thank you for all your continued dedication and exceptional hard work to ensure this industry keeps going. We hope you enjoy the night – this is a celebration of your work. Mary Egan – Director of Operations Adrienne Kuster – Social Media & Marketing Coordinator Camille Carlier – Awards, Events & Membership Coordinator

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Thank you to the Jurors: We’d like to express our appreciation for all this year’s jurors, comprised of industry Practitioners, critics, and students, who assisted in short-listing submissions and selecting each Production, Restoration and Personnel categories winners in a comprehensive and fair manner. S t e p h a n i e A l d e n , B a p t i s t e B a m a t o , M o r g a n e B a r r i e r, M a d d i e B a t e s , Colin Bélard, Jessica Berman-Bogdan, Eva Beutel, Caroline Blache, G u i l l a u m e B o u re , J e s s B row n , I m o g e n B u r t , J o n C a rey, E m m a C a r l e s c h i , L é n a C e r v o n i , To m C h e n , C h u n C h u n W o n g , S i m o n C l a r k , K a t e C o e , P a u l C o l l a rd , C a i t l i n C o n n e l l y, N e l l C u n n i n g h a m , A d a m D u n l o p , J o a k i m E d h o m , R a y e F a r r, J a n e F i s h , S o p h i e F i s h e r, M a t F l a s q u e , B e n G r e e n , E l l e H a y w o o d , M a n u e l H e l l e r, R i c h a r d H i g g i n g s , R o s i e H o l l i d a y , A l H o p k i n s , M a r t a H o u s k e , S u s a n n a H u b e r, B e n J o n e s , F ra n c i s J o n e s , A n d re a K a l a s , F i o n a K e l l y, M i c h e l l e K i r by, M a x i n e K ra w c z y k , B ra n d o n K ra w j ew s k i , K a t e L i n g l ey, C h a r l o t t e Mackie, Sue Malden, Iris Mathieson, Alison McAllan, Amira Mitchell, James Mockoski, Massimo Moretti, Susan Munns, Elena Nepoti, Marie Paoli, Maria Paradinas, Elspeth Parsons, Anaëlle Péron, M o n i k a P re i s c h l , B ro n w e n P u g s l ey, S a m Q u i n n , T h o m a s R a u t u re a u , Raelene Rawlings, Antoine Reclus, Valentina Rossetto, Vincent Rousseau, Ellie Rowe, Bruno Savill de Jong, Lee Shoulders, Ray Sims, Sam Smith, Matthew Smolenski, Angela Spindler-Brown, Abby S p i r a , A n d r e w S t e v e n s , J o S t o n e s , S h o n a T h o m s o n , V i c k y T u r n e r, H e l e n U p c r a f t , H a n s V a n D e n B e r g , H e l e n W a l k e r, J o s e p h W a l l a c e , David Walsh, Claire West, Becky Whitefield, Jack Williams, Nina Zabicka

The FOCAL International Lifetime Achievement Award 2022: Bríd Dooley The FOCAL International Lifetime Achievement Award is gifted by the FOCAL International executive board to an individual who has contributed to and supported the audio-visual archive industry within their career and through the body of their work. We are delighted to announce that the 2022 recipient is Head of Archives and Library services at RTÉ, Bríd Dooley. Bríd Dooley has dedicated her entire professional career spanning over 30 years to audiovisual archives. A graduate of the University of Westminster, she first worked in the ITN Archives in London before moving to GMTV. After returning to Ireland, she joined the Irish National Public Service Broadcaster, RTÉ, to lead the station’s television archive project of 2000, before being appointed as Head of Archives and Library services in 2003. Bríd paved the way for the professional development of a modern digital archive by launching a series of strategies to ensure the long-term future of the collections and services. The ambition would be benchmarked against best international practice. Bríd was instrumental in creating a vibrant sales and licensing service, while in parallel pioneering a major project to deliver public access through online curation of the broadcast archives. Today the RTÉ Archives website connects with up to 4million visitors annually. From the outset, Bríd recognised that creating a global network to inform the transformation, of RTÉ’s Archive was essential. This was achieved by active participation in the International Federation of Television Archives – FIAT/IFTA - and by connecting with the footage industry represented by FOCAL International. Bríd served two terms as General Secretary of FIAT/IFTA from 2006 - 2012, during which time she fostered stronger co-operation and dialogue within the CCAAA, Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archive Associations. She has been an active leader in devising the annual UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.

She was an early promoter of the Save Your Archive initiative of FIAT/IFTA founded in London in 2012, which has since gone on to support a wide range of projects for global endangered archives. Bríd has continued to champion this initiative by partnering with industry to create more opportunities to keep the flame alight and safeguard at-risk world audiovisual heritage. During her two terms as President of FIAT/IFTA from 2016-2020, she led the organisation with a renewed focus on revitalising the network and its mission, creating exciting and engaging conferences and knowledge sharing seminars. She also redesigned the annual FIAT/IFTA Awards to recognise and showcase the professionalism and expertise of audiovisual specialists, a highlight of its annual conferences. Over the past decade she has led and promoted a strategy to fund and deliver a major digitisation project at RTÉ. She is currently leading a programme of change management as part of RTÉ’s overall digital transformation to create a state-of-the-art integrated digital archive service for all stakeholders. The world of audio-visual archive is one of constant innovation and change. Bríd continues to seek out opportunities to further collaborate and partner with cultural heritage and industry bodies at home and abroad and is currently serving as a member of the supervisory board of the Europeana Foundation. Bríd remains determined to ensure that audiovisual collections, and especially broadcast archives are championed, so that their precious content will be available for future generations as a valuable cultural resource and an essential component of the media sector in the creation of new and exciting stories.

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Production Company: Cinematographique Lyre Partners: Cinématographique Lyre, L’immagine Ritrovata (Bologna, Italy), Hiventy (Joinville-le-Pont, France), L.E. Diapason (Paris, France). Archival Highlights: In our opinion, restoration is as collaborative as the original production of a Film may have been. Thus, we were very keen and happy to reproduce, with our technical partners, the spirit of collaboration between France and Italy that gave birth to L’AVVENTURA in 1960. The evolution of technology in the very last few years and the level of expertise reached by each of our technical partners – three of the very best in the world, coming from France and Italy – ensured that the project would result in a truly unique, never-before-seen quality rendition of the full Cannes Version of Antonioni’s work of art. To this day, L’Avventura remains one of Cinema’s most outstanding films and it is a pleasure to present to all audiences, young and not so young, this 4K restoration which captures like never before the beauty of the images and the haunted quality of the soundtrack.

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Production Company: L’Immagine Ritrovata Partners: Cineteca di Bologna, The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project at L’Image Retrouvée (Paris) in association with Éditions René Chateau and the family of Sarah Maldoror. Archival Highlights: Trapped in a web of legal disputes that made it inaccessible for almost two decades, the restoration of Sambizanga took three years to be completed. During this time we tragically lost Sarah Maldoror, one of the very first woman pioneers in the history of cinema, a poet and a free filmmaker. In the words of her daughter, Annouchka De Andrade :”This film is also the story of a political awakening. The protagonist’s continual displacement is also Sarah’s, and it defines women in the African diaspora”. Restoring Sambizanga entailed making sure that the beauty but also the fragility of this film was respected, that the film was not over-restored, that the grading could bring back the lights, the colors and the tragedy of the battle.

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This celebratory documentary imaginatively narrates two centuries of Greek history from the Greek war of Independence in 1821 up to the present. Director: Konstantinos Pilavios | Producer: Vasilis Karamitsanis | Footage Archive Producers: Leonidas Liambeys, Lefteris Adamidis, Ilias Pantazis, Anastasis FintzosVavlis | Archival Sources: ERT, Netherlands Eye Film Museum, ELIA (Greek Literary and Historical Archive), International Committee of the Red Cross, Benaki Museum Athens | Production Company: Committee Greece 2021, Animasyros | Country of Production: Greece

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce vita (Cinecittà, making of History) As the country moved from fascism to economic miracle, Cinecittà became the symbolic epicentre of Italian society and the theatre of its representation. Director: Emmanuelle Nobécourt | Producer: Martin Laurent | Footage Archive Producer/Researchers: Carlo Degli Esposti, Nicola Serra, Andrea Romeo | Archival Sources: Atelier des archives, INA, Gaumont Pathé Archives, Archive.org, Getty Images | Production Company: Temps Noir, Palomar, Cinecittà-Luce | Country of Production: France, Italy

Antoine The Fortunate The film charts the rise and fall of the fortunes of this ordinary man and his family, who witnessed and survived the dramatic events leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and creation of modern Turkey. Director: Nefin Dinc | Producers: Rea Apostolides, Yuri Averof, Clara Vuillermoz, Heinrich Mayer-Moroni, Nefin Dinç | Footage Archive Producer: Charlotte de Luppé | Archival Sources: Greek Film Library, Salt Turkey, Eye Institut - Holland, Antoine film archive, photographs, letters, diaries, sketches etc. | Production Company: Anemon Productions, Les Films Du Balibari, EPO-Film | Country of Production: Greece, France, Austria

Colonia Dignidad: Eine deutsche Sekte in Chile (Colonia Dignidad: A Sinister Sect) A colony of German Christians with a charismatic and manipulative leader establishes itself in Chile and becomes instrumental to the dictatorship.

Director: Wilfried Huismann, Annette Baumeister | Producers: Gunnar Dedio, Regina Bouchehri, Daniela Bunster, Birgit Rasch | Footage Archive Producer: Claudia Hentze | Archival Sources: Archiv Colonia Dignidad / Villa Baviera, PROGRESS Film, AP Archive, Canal 13 (Chile), NBC | Production Company: LOOKSfilm, Netflix, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Südwestrundfunk (SWR), ARTE | Country of Production: Germany, United States

Lotte Eisner - A Place, Nowhere

Lotte H. Eisner (1896-1983) was one of the most fascinating figures of the past century. Little known by the public, the author of the celebrated essay L’Ecran démoniaque (The Demonic Screen) and curator in chief of the Cinémathèque Française Director: Timon Koulmasis | Producers: Ilona Grundmann, Christophe Gougeon, Yann Brolli | Footage Archive Producer/Researcher: Timon Koulmasis, Céline Le Roux-Vincent | Archival Sources: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Det Danske Filminstitut, Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, Cinémathéque Francaise, Mémorial de la Shoa | Production Company: Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction, Acqua Alta | Country of Production: Germany, France

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Icons and iconoclasts of the entertainment industry are embodied in these five revelatory and insightful examples of archive-led productions. Camera Tripod Bicycle Camera Tripod Bicycle celebrates the work of Dubliner and fireman Leslie Crowe who spent 25 years filming his city and family on his 8mm Brownie camera. On his death in 1989 his cans of film were stored in biscuit tins and put away in an attic for 30 years. Director: Nuala O’Connor, Philip King, Tina O’Reilly | Producers: Tina O’Reilly, Ashleigh Carton | Footage Archive Producer: Nuala O’Connor | Archival Sources: Crowe family archive, Pathé News | Production Company: South Wind Blows | Country of Production: Ireland

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street A rare window into the early days of “Sesame Street,” revealing the creators, artists, writers, and educators who together established one of the most influential and enduring children’s programs in television history.

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Latin Noir travels to five Latin American cities, meeting famous crime novelists Leonardo Padura (Havana), Luis Sepulveda (Santiago), Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Mexico City), Santiago Roncagliolo (Lima) and Claudia Pineiro (Buenos Aires). Director: Andreas Apostolidis | Producers: Rea Apostolidi, Yuri Anerof, Sergio Munoz, Estelle Robin You | Footage Archive Producer: Justine Moreau | Archival Sources: Filmoteca Unam Mexico, INA, Penn Museum, Enrique Metinides Mexico | Production Company: Anemon Productions, Point Du Joir - Les Films Du Balibari | Country of Production: Greece, France, Mexico

Charlie Chaplin, the genius of liberty For the first time, an all-archival documentary traces the fate of Charles Chaplin, a complete artist and public figure, the most popular man in the world. Director: Yves Jeuland | Producers: Michel Rotman, Marie-Hélène Ranc | Footage Archive Producer: Aude Vassallo | Archival Sources: Pathé Gaumont, Lobster film, Roy Export, British Pathe, Library of Congress of USA | Production Company: Kuiv Productions | Country of Production: France

Film, the Living Record of Our Memory Film archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers from around the world explain what film preservation is and why it is needed. Our protagonists are custodians of film whose work behind the scenes safeguards the survival of motion pictures. Director: Inés Toharia | Producers: Isaac Garcia, Paul Cadieux | Footage Archive Producer: Adrian Wood | Archival Sources: Eye Filmmuseum, George Eastman Museum, INA, British Pathé, BFI National Archive | Production Company: El Grifilm Productions, Filmoption International | Country of Production: Spain, Canada

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Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story Brit Award winner Sam Fender goes in search of a musical hero from another era - the late, great, Alan Hull of Lindisfarne. Sam is amazed how few people outside of his native North East know much about his hero’s work. He’s now on a mission to win back Hull’s place in music history. Director: Ged Clarke | Producers: Tony Parker, Malcolm Gerrie, Geoff Wonfor, Ray Laidlaw | Footage Archive Producer/Researcher: Camilla Wheeler, Samantha Peters | Archival Sources: BBC, ITV, Universal, Screen Doncaster (Howard Johnson), Mawson & Wareham Music | Production Company: Daisybeck Studios | Country of Production: United Kingdom

King Rocker Comedian Stewart Lee and director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye, Toast of London), investigate a missing piece of punk history: Robert Lloyd, best known for fronting cult Birmingham bands The Prefects and The Nightingales, has survived under the radar for over four decades. Director: Michael Cumming | Producer: James Nicholls | Footage Archive Producer: Stewart Lee | Archival Sources: BBC Motion Gallery (Getty), ITV, MACE, Warner Music, Music Convoy | Production Company: Krocker Film Ltd | Country of Production: United Kingdom

Blitzed: The 80s Blitz Kids Story In strife-torn 1979 Britain, against a backdrop of strikes, blackouts, racism and homophobia, out of one small London venue called The Blitz came a generation of outrageous teenagers, working-class and art school kids, who would define the look, the sound, the style and the attitude of the ‘80s & beyond. Director: Bruce Ashley, Michael Donald | Producers: Ian Penman, Andy Woodford, Celia Moore | Footage Archive Producer: Kalbir Dhillon | Archival Sources: Getty, BBC, Homer Sykes - My British Archive, Nicola Tyson - Sadie Coles Gallery, Sheila Rock Photography | Production Company: Get Blitzed Ltd. | Country of Production: United Kingdom

The Sparks Brothers How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time? From acclaimed director Edgar Wright comes THE SPARKS BROTHERS, a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers/bandmates Ron and Russell Mael. Director: Edgar Wright | Producers: Edgar Wright, Nira Park, George Hencken, Laura Richardson | Footage Archive Producer/Researcher: Kate Griffiths, Tess McNallyWatson | Archival Sources: Getty Images (BBC), INA, Comet Films, DCMA, Retro Video | Production Company: Complete Fiction Pictures Limited | Country of Production: United Kingdom

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As a witness to our expanding histories and the ever-changing world we inhabit, archival footage can play an important role in accentuating the educational and reflective components of productions with a commitment to the factual. Bruno v Tyson An exploration of the rivalry and relationship between Frank Bruno and Mike Tyson, two heavyweight icons from opposite sides of the Atlantic. Director: Benjamin Hirsch, Kevin MacDonald | Producer: Rick Murray | Footage Archive Producer/Researchers: James RM Hunt, Matthew Phillip Price, Benjamin Hirsch | Archival Sources: BBC, Sky Sports, Fremantle, ESPN, ABC | Production Company: Workerbee | Country of Production: United Kingdom

Launch! On the Sea with Scotland’s Lifeboats

Launch! has been two years in the making with unprecedented archival access. 1960s colour promotional RNLI films and breath-taking digital video captured by crews’ helmet cameras in the past ten years out on the wild sea is interwoven with rare 1920s footage sourced from the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

Director: Shona Thomson | Producers: Shona Thomson, Jen Skinner, Jack Lockhart | Footage Archive Producer: Shona Thomson | Archival Sources: RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution), National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive | Production Company: A Kind of Seeing, Screen Argyll | Country of Production: United Kingdom

Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11 ‘Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11’ is a feature documentary that tells the story of September 11th through a unique set of eyewitness testimonies, recorded in a small plywood video box in the months following the attacks. Director: David Belton, Bjørn Johnson | Producers: Hugo Godwin, Elizabeth Fischer | Footage Archive Producer: James RM Hunt | Archival Sources: Ruth Sergel, Dr Mark Heath, Jameson Gong, The contributors personal archive, NBC News Archive | Production Company: Dog and Duck, NBC News Studios, Yard 44, MSNBC Films | Country of Production: United States, United Kingdom

Playing with Sharks

Through remarkable underwater archival footage, along with interviews with Valerie Taylor, ‘Playing with Sharks’, follows this daring ocean explorer’s trajectory from champion spearfisher to passionate shark protector.

Director: Sally Aitken | Producers: Bettina Dalton | Footage Archive Producer/ Researchers: Robyn Smith, Carl Reinecke, Lisa Savage, Natalia Mironova | Archival Sources: Ron Taylor Film Productions, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, BBC Motion Gallery, The Footage Company Australia, NBC News Archives | Production Company: A Wildbear Entertainment Production, National Geographic, Screen NSW, Dogwoof, TDOG | Country of Production: Australia, United States, United Kingdom

The Return: Life After Isis Alba Sotorra’s exclusive access to Roj Camp in northeastern Syria brings us closer to the harsh reality of a group of Western women trapped by their past as members of ISIS. Director: Alba Sotorra Clua | Producers: Alba Sotorra Clua, Vesna Cudic, Carles Torres | Footage Archive Producer/Researchers: Roxana Portase, Júlia Parés Fabrellas, Pau Galan Rosas | Archival Sources: Anha TV, ABC News, A HBR, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Aerial Videography - Epic Drone Films CBS News | Production Company: Alba Sotorra Productions, MetFilm, Sky | Country of Production: United Kingdom

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Muhammad Ali brings to life one of the best-known and most indelible figures of the 20th century, a three-time heavyweight boxing champion who captivated millions of fans with his mesmerizing combination of speed, grace, and power in the ring, and charm and playful boasting outside of it. Director: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon | Producers: Sarah Burns, David McMahon, Stephanie Jenkins, Ken Burns | Footage Archive Producer: Stephanie Jenkins | Archival Sources: ESPN, Top Rank, BBC & BBC Sport (via Getty Images), NBC News (via Getty Images), AP | Production Company: Florentine Films | Country of Production: United States

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Dettori Dettori is the story of the dramatic and emotional life of superstar jockey, Frankie Dettori. Far more than a simple sports story, the film covers the rollercoaster career of racings undoubted rock star. Director: Anthony Wonke | Producers: Nick Ryle, Caroline Willis, Jo Pritchard | Footage Archive Producer: Jack Lee Taylor | Archival Sources: Getty Images, Racecourse Media Group, Freemantle, Sky Sports Racing, Screen Ocean | Production Company: Trombone Productions | Country of Production: United Kingdom

Citizen Ashe Citizen Ashe explores the enduring legacy of tennis great and humanitarian Arthur Ashe, tracing his personal evolution from sports legend to global activist. Director: Rex Miller, Sam Pollard | Producers: Steven Cantor, Anna Godas, Beth Hubbard, Rex Miller, Jamie Schutz | Footage Archive Producer/Researcher: Lizzy McGlynn, Hannah Shepard | Archival Sources: John G. Zimmerman Archive, CBS/ Veritone, Getty Images, USTA/Veritone, IMG/Wimbledon | Production Company: Rexpix Media, CNN Films, HBO Max, Dogwoof Pictures, Stick Figure Productions | Country of Production: United States, United Kingdom

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9/11: One Day in America: To l d i n F u l l 9/11: One Day in America tells the in-depth story of September 11th through the eyes of the witnesses, heroes, and survivors. Made in collaboration with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum to mark the 20th anniversary, this major new series charts the tragic day in unprecedented detail. Director: Daniel Bogado | Producers: Caroline Marsden | Footage Archive Producer/ Researchers: Peter Scott, Jack Penman, Fiammetta Luino, Anna Broadbent | Archival Sources: CNN Collection / Naudet Brothers, Evan Fairbanks, Anthony Fioranelli, The Camera Planet Archive, Veritone / CBS News | Production Company: 72 Films | Country of Production: United Kingdom

Attica In the fall of 1971, tensions between inmates and guards at the Attica Correctional Facility were at an all-time high due to worsening prison conditions. On the morning of September 9, it all came to a head when inmates erupted into one of the largest, deadliest prison riots ever witnessed. Directors: Stanley Nelson, Traci A. Cur | Producers: Marcia Smith, Vinnie Malhotra, Jihan Robinson | Footage Archive Producer: Rosemary Rotondi | Archival Sources: New York State Archive, Richard Nixon Presidential Library, major news network and affiliate news archives, college and university archives, stock footage archives such as Oddball Films in CA | Production Company: Firelight Films, Showtime | Country of Production: United States

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Broadway League ‘This Is Broadway ’ After the longest hiatus in its history, New York City welcomed the return of live theatre to Broadway in the fall of 2021! The “Broadway’s Back” campaign that played to the tri-state area television audience. Footage Archive Producers: Brandon Hardin, Colleen Cavanaugh Anthony | Footage Archive Researcher: Jeffrey Harland | Producers: Lucky Generals, Jolly Banerjee | Archival Sources: Spotco, The Tony Awards, HMS Media, Getty Images, Film Archive | Production Company: STALKR, Lucky Generals | Country of Production: United States

Sandy Hook ‘The Kids Are Not Alright - Disappearing Act’ Teenagers are in crisis right now more than most of us are even aware. This campaign sparks conversation and raises awareness about the signs of distress and how we can recognize them before something terrible happens. Footage Archive Producers: George Alvarez | Footage Archive Researcher: Aaron Sharper, Jen Van Horn, Jeffrey Harland, Itzel Sarabia, Matt Gee, Nathalie Dortonne | Director: Jakob Marky | Producer: Alex Gianni | Archival Sources: STALKRFILM, Pond5, FilmPac, Nimia, Social Media Platforms | Production Company: STALKR, BBDO NY | Country of Production: United States

Google ‘It Starts With Summer’

Google and Uncommon Creative London, working with STALKR, celebrate our return to ordinary life by exploring the diverse yet shared culture of the UK. This campaign has got it all, marriage, friendship, family, love, hugs, clubs, pubs, soccer and naturally, the famed British weather. Footage Archive Producer: Marina Sanchez | Footage Archive Researchers: Alexandra Duxbury, Jimmy Dunne, Marijana Radovic, Pepito Morán, Marija Perisic, Morgan Foye, Joe Bowler, Jelena Markovic, Dragana Jovanovic, Fer Tome | Director: Josh Tenser | Producer: Charlie Balmer | Archival Sources: Independent Filmmakers, Social Media Platforms, STALKRFILM, Getty Images, Film Supply | Production Company: STALKR, Uncommon Creative Studio | Country of Production: United Kingdom

HBO Max ‘Celebrating Devoted Fans’

A love letter to the fans marking the one-year anniversary of HBO Max’s launch, this spot features user-generated content from fans of HBO Max properties, highlighting the symbiotic bond between storyteller and audience, and celebrating the exuberant global fandoms who are co-creating culture. Footage Archive Producer: Spring McCoy | Footage Archive Researchers: Matt Gee, Itzel Sarabia, Craig Phillips, Jeffrey Harland, Kadie Spinks, Mike Kho, Lauren Wackell, Anna Weltner, Jen Van Horn, Chelly Zerbe, Aaron Sharper, Nathalie Dortonne, Miles Brandenstein, Rachel Saxby, Brandi Self | Producer: Scotty Schuckies | Archival Sources: Tik Tok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter | Production Company: STALKR, BBDO NY

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Lost Connections An echo of our own contemporary experiences, Lost Connections is an archive-based film which gives us hope for the future by connecting with the past. Comprising over a century of remarkable footage, the film responds to the unprecedented lockdown experience when many of us were forced to stop, reflect, question and re-assess what is most important. Producers: Graham Relton, Sue Howard, Frank Gray | Editor: Andrew Burns | Footage Archive Producer/Researchers: Curators at the nine English regional film archives and three Home Nation film archives (Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) | Filmmaker: Andrew Burns | Archival Sources: East Anglia Film Archive, London’s Screen Archives, Media Archive for Central England, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive, North East Film Archive, North West Film Archive, Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive, Screen Archive South East, South West Film & Television Archive, Wessex Film and Sound Archive, Yorkshire Film Archive | Production Company: Yorkshire Film Archive | Country of Production: United Kingdom

The Silent Pulse of the Universe Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the scepticism from her superiors to make one of the greatest astrophysical discoveries of the twentieth century. While Jocelyn was belittled and sexually harassed by the media, the Nobel Prize was awarded to her professor and his boss. Director: Ben Proudfoot | Producers: Elizabeth Brooke, Abby Lynn Kang Davis, Gabriel Berk Godoi, Ben Proudfoot, Brandon Somerhalder, Sarah Stewart | Footage Archive Producer: Sarah Stewart | Archival Sources: Newspaper, BBC, Personal, Kino, Pond5 | Production Company: Breakwater Studios | Country of Production: United States

We Were There to Be There Taking place as cuts to crucial social services loom under Ronald Reagan, two legendary punk bands come together to perform a show for patients and staff at a psychiatric facility. Captured on tape by seminal video art collective Target Video, “We Were There Be There” threads moments from the Napa State Hospital set with commentary from band members and those who witnessed it first-hand, providing a crucial backstory for the recording of one of the most iconic shows in the history of music, at a critical moment in the future of mental health care in the US. Director: Mike Plante, Jason Willis | Producer: Mike Plante | Archival Sources: Joe Target Rees/Target Video, Napa State Hospital, Napa County Historical Society, Berkeley Barb, Individuals: Jill Hoffman-Kowal, Ruby Ray, Jim Jocoy, Sam Edwards, Brad Lapin | Production Company: Field of Vision | Country of Production: United States

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