Biografie (Bryony Dixon)

BRYONY DIXON is Senior Curator, Silent Film, at the BFI National Library and Archive. §As Project Manager of the BFI Chaplin Research Project she organised the first international academic conference on Chaplin and designed and developed the BFI Chaplin website, a resource bringing together newly digitised materials from our collections with information, interpretation and new academic work as well as a focus on the BFI's own restoration work on the Chaplin Keystones.§In 1998 she co-founded with Laraine Porter and group of friends the British Silent Cinema Festival (a combined festival and conference) to concentrate research on British silent film. This is coming up for its 10th year in 2007.She contributes every year to a series of books arising out of the festival andis currently co-editing the current edition Picture Perfect: Landscape Place and Travel in British Film before 1930, to be published by the University of Exeter Press.

Biografie (Patrick Russell)

PATRICK RUSSELL is Senior Curator (Non-Fiction), BFI National Archive, UK. He is the author of 100 British Documentaries (2007) and co-editor of The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon (2004) and a regular contributor to BFI Screenonline. §