[Commlist] Fully Funded PhD opportunity: Using Film to Effect Change: Screening Rights Film Festival, Curation, Outreach, Impact and Engagement

*Using Film to Effect Change:* Screening Rights Film Festival, Curation, 
Outreach, Impact and Engagement*

This *fully-funded, Practice as Research, PhD* is based in Film and 
Television Studies at the University of Warwick and the Warwick Arts Centre.

Supervisor: Dr Michele Aaron (Director-curator of Screening Rights Film 
Festival).

We are seeking an outstanding candidate for this Practice as Research 
PhD: Applied Screen Studies. The PhD investigates the potential for film 
to affect and even effect social change through the development of the 
Screening Rights Film Festival (SRFF) in partnership with the Warwick 
Arts Centre (WAC). SRFF, now in its 8th year, is an international 
festival taking place in Coventry and Birmingham each autumn. Grounded 
in research, specifically the ethical potential of film, its mission is 
to extend audiences for, and debate on, important social justice films.

The researcher would be partly based at the WAC where they would 
contribute to their film and outreach strategy and benefit from 
experience working within a large regional arts centre. Over the 
three-year programme, the researcher would be increasingly responsible 
for the coordination and curation of SRFF. Through this PhD, they will 
further theoretical and practical understandings of the role of film in 
social change, and in the outreach and civic agendas of arts 
organisations and film festivals.

Aims of the PhD:

•         Enhance the value and impact of SRFF

•         Further theoretical and practical understandings of the role 
of film in social change, and in the outreach and civic agendas of arts 
organisations and festivals

•         Explore the role of the film festival and special screening 
events as a transformational space for audiences as understood both 
through outreach agendas, festival studies and ethical theory

•         Consider, and develop, the capacity of (social justice) film, 
and SRFF activities, to be applied to other areas of the WAC’s work to 
support its wider strategy and strengthen its civic/outreach commitments.

•         Write up the practice as research as a 40,000-word thesis

We are looking for someone with interest in or experience of some or all 
of the following:

Social justice cinema and filmmaking

	

Community Arts Programming/curation

	

Ethical Film Theory and Practice

Film Festivals

	

Film and/as activism

	

Art outreach strategies

Applicants should have an MA related to any of these areas or an 
undergraduate degree plus relevant professional experience. Please 
contact Michele Aaron

((m.aaron /at/ warwick.ac.uk) <mailto:(m.aaron /at/ warwick.ac.uk)>) for further 
information or to discuss your personal statement in advance of 
submitting your application.

Applications must be emailed to Dr Tiago de Luca 
((T.de-Luca /at/ warwick.ac.uk) <mailto:(T.de-Luca /at/ warwick.ac.uk)>) by the 
*deadline – end of 21st June* – with the following subject line: 
APPLICATION FOR SRFF PHD. Your application should contain the following:

•         A cover letter indicating your suitability for this PhD no 
longer than 2 pages.

•         A CV inc. academic background and professional experience 
where relevant.

•         A sample of your best critical writing on film or the moving 
image or visual culture

•         Your academic transcript.

Plus - two references to be emailed directly by referees to Dr de Luca.

Candidates to be interviewed will be informed by the end of 23rd June

Interview date:  28th June 2022              PhD start date: 1^st 
September 2022

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