Patrick Russell and James Piers Taylor
Patrick Russell is Senior Curator (Non-Fiction) at the BFI National Archive, which he joined in 2000, having previously worked at the BBC archive and at the East Anglian Film Archive.
In his present position, he heads up the team responsible for the acquisition, management and interpretation of the Archive's non-fiction holdings - increasingly visible in recent years through projects such as those focusing on the Mitchell & Kenyon collection and the British Documentary Movement. In addition to ongoing contributions to the BFI's screenonline, Mediatheque and InView digital resources, to BFI DVDs, and to external journals and websites, Patrick has co-edited (with Vanessa Toulmin and Simon Popple) The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film (BFI, 2004), and has written 100 British Documentaries (BFI, 2007).
James Piers Taylor is an independent curator and film historian currently working on a major project with Film London to open up London's Screen Archives.
He has previously worked within the moving image collections of the BFI, BBC, Imperial War Museum, ITN/Reuters, ITV, Amnesty International, the Media Archive for Central England and the Anthology Film Archives in New York, among others. Recently he has served as the Curator of the BFI Mediatheque, and as a researcher on the BFI’s InView project delivering digitised film and video content to the Higher Education community.
Patrick and James have co-edited Shadows of Progress: Documentary Films of Post-War Britain which will be published in November 2010 as part of a major BFI project which also includes a BFI Southbank film season and a four-disc DVD box-set.
www.screenonline.org.uk
www.bfi.org.uk/mediatheque
www.bfi.org.uk/inview
