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Regional Archives - Value and Viability: Sustaining and Sharing Unique Stories

How regional archives can generate income while remaining publicly accountable and firmly values-led.

Simon Clark

Simon is a Trustee of Film Archives UK and has been providing film and media consulting services since 2018.

Simon has worked in the industry since 1984 with equipment manufacturers and service providers in various areas including film scanning, restoration, colour-grading, digitisation, data preservation and live broadcast.

Simon is currently working with Norwegian data preservation company Piql, The Arctic World Archive (a charitable foundation) and The Hollywood Film Company – a US company that has provided motion picture services for over 90 years.

Simon is Chair of The Royal Television Society’s Shiers Trust and a past member of FOCAL’s Executive Council.

Geoff Senior

Geoff Senior is Access and Engagement Co-ordinator at the North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University. With over 30 years’ experience, he works to make the region’s publicly held film collections accessible to a wide range of users.

His role involves identifying and sharing relevant material for audiences across the public, academic and commercial sectors, including individuals, museums, galleries and broadcasters.

Geoff is well regarded within the archive research community for his knowledge of the region’s screen history and its people.

Graham Relton

Graham co-leads the Yorkshire and North East Film Archive at York St John University, a unique pan-regional resource dedicated to saving and celebrating the screen heritage of Yorkshire and the North East.

As Head of Access, he unlocks the rich and diverse collections for artists and academics, curators and programmers, researchers and producers to reveal compelling stories from the vaults.

FOCAL International Footage Person of the Year 2023, Graham is the producer of a series of award-winning human-centred archival short films, and a passionate champion of the UK public film archive sector, advocating for the value of archive in a changing cultural landscape.

Amy Keegan

Amy Keegan is the Membership and Licensing Coordinator for London’s Screen Archives (Film London), the city’s regional archive. She runs LSA’s growing membership network of 50+ organisations, focusing on engagement and cross-community access.

Delivering commercial and non-commercial licensing for 30+ member collections, she promotes diverse collections from across the city with a focus on developing inclusive and values-led practices.

Her work further encompasses practical access-led archive training as well as small gauge film handling & digitisation processes. She holds an MA in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image from the University of Amsterdam and a BA in History and English from Trinity College Dublin.