Video Trust Annual Conference: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 2024 Video Trust Annual Conference
Check out our sessions -lots of great information coming your way!

12:15pm EDT

Keynote Address by Dr. Novotny Lawrence (Black Film Center and Archive)

Tuesday October 22, 2024 12:15pm - 1:00pm EDT

Video Trust Executive Board member Cindy Badilla-Melendez will introduce our Keynote Address by Dr. Novotny Lawrence (Black Film Center and Archive) - “Say His Name”: Archiving, Candyman, and Social Justice

Dr. Novotny Lawrence is the Director of the Black Film Center & Archive and an associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University. A widely published scholar, Dr. Lawrence’s research focuses on Black cinematic/mediated experiences and popular culture, areas that reflect the historic racial discrimination that Blacks have endured and overcome as well as and Blacks’ ongoing struggles for equity and justice. He will speak to us about access and sustainability in the BCFA and film archives in general.

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