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.

Storm Patterson

Storm Patterson is a cultural practitioner specialising in film heritage, with over a decade of experience. She is the Digital Transformation Manager and Projects Lead at London’s Screen Archives at Film London, the regional archive for London and a network of 50+ organisations. Her work spans community-led archiving, metadata and collections management, and major digital infrastructure and preservation projects. She has previously held curatorial roles at the BFI National Archive, produced immersive exhibitions, and worked across major UK film festivals. Her work is grounded in ethical, access-led approaches to audiovisual archives.