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Film Screening: Celebrating Amateur Movie Day
21/01/2026
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Opportunity: Videotape Digitisation Technician – T-PIKE Project Intern
14/01/2026
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Event: ’80s Festive Video Show
04/11/2025
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New Project: Community Curating with Queer Norfolk
03/11/2025
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News from EAFA | Autumn 2025 newsletter
29/10/2025
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Event: Halloween Special: Amateur Fiction on Film
02/10/2025
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Event: Architectural Visions: A Journey Through Film Archives
21/09/2025
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Winner Announcement – Mashup Filmmaking Competition 2024-25
03/07/2025
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News from EAFA | Summer 2025 newsletter
02/07/2025
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News from EAFA | Spring 2025 newsletter
30/04/2025
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Historical Pageant Films are Latest Addition to EAFA Collections
29/04/2025
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Event: Artists’ Film at the East Anglian Film Archive, 1 April 2025
03/01/2025
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News from EAFA | Winter 2025 newsletter
02/01/2025
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BFI Replay at The Archive Centre
01/01/2025
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EAFA Awarded UK National Archives Accredited Status
27/11/2024
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Event: Akenfield Film 50, Sunday 24th November 2024
18/11/2024
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News from EAFA | Autumn 2024 newsletter
18/10/2024
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Celebrating 60 years of BBC Look East
27/09/2024
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Reflections on a digitisation project
12/09/2024
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Online event: The Changing Face of Norwich, Sep 2024
29/07/2024
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News from EAFA | Summer 2024 newsletter
04/07/2024
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An interview with artist filmmaker Roger Hewins
22/05/2024
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How Norwich Works: experiencing archive film in an exhibition
18/04/2024
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News from EAFA | Spring 2024 newsletter
18/04/2024
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Event: Heritage Open Days Film Screening: Routes – Networks – Connections, Tues 10 Sep 2024
09/04/2024
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Event: Spring Highlights from the Archive, May 2024
26/03/2024
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How can we better serve you and your community? Have your say!
15/03/2024
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Online event: The Changing Face of Norwich
15/03/2024
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Have your say in our audience development survey
08/02/2024
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News from EAFA | Winter 2024 newsletter
25/01/2024
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Stories from the Archive: the Kalee Cinema Film Projector
18/01/2024
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Event: The Changing Face of Norwich, Wed 7 Feb 2024
15/01/2024
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Event: DIY Zoetrope Activity at Norwich Science Festival, Mon 19 Feb 2024
15/01/2024
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Event: Norwich (Film) Works with Roger Hewins, Wed 24 Jan 2024
14/01/2024
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Event: Norfolk’s Industrial Heritage film screening, Thur 11 Jan 2024
03/01/2024
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News from EAFA | Autumn 2023 newsletter
26/10/2023
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Reflections on the EAFA Home Viewing project
12/10/2023
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Meet the Film Archivist: Phillip Collins
20/09/2023
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Opportunity: audience development consultant
15/09/2023
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Event: EAFA film screening at the Norfolk Record Office, Wed 6 Sep 2023
11/08/2023
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Preserving EAFA’s Video Compilations
30/06/2023
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Volunteering opportunity for UEA students
04/05/2023
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Event: Even & EAFA celebrate May Day
12/04/2023
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BFI Replay launches in UK libraries
30/03/2023
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Women In Focus: new light on women amateur filmmakers
22/03/2023
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Event: HODS 2023 Film Screening : A Century of 16mm filmmaking and Self-Expression, Fri 15 Sep 2023
21/03/2023
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Event: Highlights from the Archive, April 2023
15/03/2023
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Event: BBC Archive Stories – ‘Climate Emergency’
03/03/2023
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Looking for a graduate internship? We’re hiring!
08/02/2023
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Film screening at Norwich Science Festival 2023
18/01/2023
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BFI Replay: 60 years of screen stories free to view in Suffolk Libraries
25/11/2022
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‘Astounding Inventions’ – Film screenings on Weds 19 October 2022
23/08/2022
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EAFA is recruiting
19/07/2022
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Lost Connections film wins Focal International Award
04/07/2022
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Forever Young – Free screenings on Wednesday 30th March 2022
21/03/2022
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EAFA is recruiting two temporary p/t Digitisation Technicians
03/03/2022
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Forever Young: Documentary celebrates youth culture of the 1970s and 1980s.
21/11/2021
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Lights, camera, representation! UEA Prof aims to make female filmmakers more visible
09/08/2021
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EAFA awarded AHRC Capability for Collections (CapCo) Funding
30/06/2021
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Past Forward Website Showcases Film Archive Services
30/06/2021
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BFI and Paul Merton unveil ‘Top 10 most watched films you have never heard of’ in East of England to celebrate 25 years of National Lottery Funding
11/02/2021
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‘Invisible Innovators’ – Making Women Filmmakers Visible across the UK’s Film Archives
11/02/2021
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National Archives ‘Digital Testbed’ Funding Awarded to EAFA
11/02/2021
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EAFA footage features in ‘These Are The Hands’ – A New Film Raising Funds for NHS Charities
11/02/2021
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EAFA commemorates the 75th Anniversary of VE Day
11/02/2021
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EAFA and BFI ‘Britain on Film’ Lockdown Viewing
11/02/2021
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Mental Health Awareness Week 18-24 May 2020 – Kindness and the East Anglian Film Archive’s ‘Care in the Community’
11/02/2021
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History Begins At Home – Connecting People, Creating History
11/02/2019
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