The Realist Impulse: Contemporary Film Making in Britain

The Film Team at Oxford Brookes is hosting this conference

The keynote speaker is Professor John Hill, Royal Holloway University, who will be speaking on “The Politics of Realism in the works of Ken Loach - From Days of Hope to The Wind that Shakes the Barley”. Panels of academic papers will take place on aspects of contemporary British film making and its complex relationship with realism/s across the two days of the conference. In addition there will be a Q&A session with director Pawel Pawlikowski chaired by Jim Hillier, and a Work In Progress screening session with film makers, chaired by Jo Nolan, Head of Screen South.