Summer Showcase Screenings 2024

43 minutes

Rede de Apoio e Incentivo Socioambiental (RAIS), Aty Guasu, Conselho Indigenista Missionário (CIMI/MS)

This documentary (translating to ‘Guavira Season’) shows the relationship of the Kaiowá and Guarani with their tekoha, traditional lands threatened by agriculture in Mato Grosso do Sul in central-west Brazil.

16 mins

Olga Sovenko (Researcher at Risk, University of East Anglia), with Sophie North and Madeleine Dutton (University of Sanctuary at University of East Anglia), and filmmaker Jay Gearing (Red7Productions)

This film depicts the stories of Francis, the British host to producer Olga Sovenko, and two other refugee women from Africa, who have each experienced the forced displacement and now are rediscovering their homes here in Britain. The film conveys the message that, although you may have lost your physical home, home is always inside of you.

21 mins

Professor Rosalind Edwards (University of Southampton, Sociology), Professor Val Gillies (University of Westminster; Social Policy and Criminology)

The Sociologist's Wife uncovers the ways in which three women, married to eminent post-war British sociologists, each contributed to their husband's work and looks at how those contributions have remained largely hidden – until now. Featuring interviews with their adult children, this film is part of the Academic Wives project and is produced by Popping Orange Communications.

5 mins

Professor Ian Christie FBA (Birkbeck, University of London; Film and Media History)

The bronze sculpture of Arctic explorer Captain Scott outside the Academy’s home at 10-11 Carlton House Terrace is unique among London’s 1500-plus public monuments. More than a touching memorial by his widow and sculptor Kathleen Scott to her deceased husband, Scott’s statue stands uniquely out of step with the modernist wave that dominated British sculpture at the time while also defying traditional expectations of public monuments to heroic figures. A film by HENI Talks.

6 mins

Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch (London School of Economics and Political Science, International Inequalities Institute), British Academy-funded researcher

Many of us spend most of our time working and the conditions of our job are likely to affect our lives and well-being. Courtesy of International Inequalities Institute, this film explores the working conditions of Uber drivers to explore the gig economy.

Dr Kaitlyn Zavaleta (De Montfort University; Psychology), Dr Marie-Josee Bisson (De Montfort University; Psychology)

Throughout the series, Dr Kaitlyn Zavaleta and Dr Marie-Josee Bisson talk to experts in the field of language learning and beyond to impart informative, evidence based and practical advice. The topics range from incidental learning, eye-tracking, learning vocabulary though reading, creative assessments, using virtual reality in the classroom, training phonological abilities, randomised control trials, speech errors and conducting research online.