Examples of my audiovisual work can also be found on my Vimeo channel http://www.vimeo.com/jemmasaunders

Select Screenings

A Birmingham Symphony

• Birmingham Film Festival – Official Selection, nominated for Best Student Film (November 2026)
• Urban Visions: Beyond the Ideal City – Finalist (November 2026)
• BH Tourism Film Festival – Official Selection (September 2026)
• Midlands Movies Awards (June 2026) – Nominated for Best Documentary
• Doc.London Documentary Film Festival (March 2026) – Official Selection (online programme) and recipient of the Tarkovski Grant

Hollywood does Sherwood: Reinforced Aesthetics of my Robin Hoods

• Audiovisual Essays Programme, Screen Conference (Glasgow, Scotland, June 2025).

• ‘Remakes and Memory’ screening event, part of the Hollywood Memories research project, at Kommunales Kino im Künstlerhaus (Hannover, Germany, February 2025).

Conference Presentations

• Stories from Imperfect Archives: Fragments, Vulnerability and Possibility. ‘Method, messiness and meaning: collecting the fragments of videographic process’ panel at BAFTSS Conference (Bournemouth, UK, April 2026)

• Silly Geography and the Musical Sequence: Remapping the Birmingham of Take Me High. ‘Real and Imagined Spaces in Film Conference’ Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain, May 2025)

• Julie Andrews: Voice. ‘Videographic Star Studies’ panel at SCMS Conference (Boston, USA, March 2024)

• Commonwealth Caps. ‘The Phenomenon of the Peaky Blinders’ event, ESRC Festival of Social Science (Digbeth, Birmingham UK, November 2022)

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