British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Practice Research Award 2016

The fourth annual BAFTSS conference took place at the University of Reading 14-16 April 2016, with the theme ‘Trans/media: Trans/national Screen’. Conference Highlights included the presentation of our Outstanding Achievement Award to filmmaker John Akomfrah, and a keynote from Mireille Rosello (University of Amsterdam), whose paper was on ‘Rituals, Ignorance and Belonging: The Transnationalisation of Communities in Recent Comedies’.

Panel D, Documentary Ethics was preceded by a screening of Pratap Rughani’s film Justine and responded to by Dr Brian Winston and Dr Anna Claydon. Listen here. Read the Transcript Documentary Ethics.

Dr Pratap Rughani was given a Practice Research Award for his film “Justine”.

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