Postgraduate Led Initiative Funnd

I was awarded the grant in order to organize the below described project:

In a world where images and motion pictures take place more predominantly in the society, we see the necessity to analyse, understand and debate this world based on moving images.
For this reason films need to be discussed!
I would like to propose a film event open to PGR students and Staff members at Queen’s University Belfast. More specifically, the idea of the project came as an alternative of creating an interactive event amongst the PGR students from the School of Arts, English and Languages during the pandemia when we all missed the social occurrences. As a matter of fact, this School is compounded mostly of artists, namely musicians, writers, moviemakers, choreographers, dancers, composers, all centered on social interactions. More specifically, their entire work is intended to be consumed and appreciated by the public, so the direct interaction between them and the consumers is indispensably important.
Nowadays, when these artists could not interact with their public, an alternative event would save our artists from anxiety, depression and loneliness. Furthermore, the event would keep us, the PGR students, proactive, alert, socially engaged, prone to learn, exchange knowledge from our different researches, to find out more perspectives and information from experts in the industry (through the guests we invite monthly) and improve not only our state of mind but also our academic work.
Moreover, the event is willing to create a bridge between the film industry and the academia: we will screen the films and invite the professionals to present in an open discussion and debate, and us, the academics, will bring afterwards an added value to the event, from the academic point of view.
We will discuss topics from silent cinema, to modernity in moviemaking, from silent films revolution to ‘’talkies’’ and the importance of music and dialogue in cinematography. We will debate the performance and stardom in a film as well as the behind the scene industry, its challenges and inconveniences; from Hollywood films to independent masterpieces, from experimental cinema to musicals and animation, all topics, step by step, will be carefully discussed. In this way, all PGR students from the Art School could benefit the information of the event as well as bring an added value from their own experience and expertise.